Dec 27, 2018
Annihilation
Title: Annihilation Author: Jeff Vandermeer Pages: 208 Speculative Fiction
Finished: December 21, 2018 Total Pages YTD: 8089
Should I read this? This book was pitched to me as similar to the Tarkovsky movie "Stalker" and I would agree. "Stalker" plus "Alien: Covenant" plus a more religiously philosophical PKD movie. I enjoyed it immensely, and read it all in one day, which probably heightened the book's affect. VanderMeer creates an incredible atmosphere, using a limited, unreliable narrator who is fully aware of how unreliable she is. The descriptions of the uncanny Area X and the beings there are PKD and King at their Lovecraftian best. I will be reading the rest of the Southern Reach trilogy