Southern Reach Trilogy (5 books in series)
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review 1: Again, VanderMeer captures a surreal dream/nightmare world (Lovecraft meets Kafka) so well that, even though I got bogged down in places, I ended up greatly admiring the unique achievement of this author. (I know I said Lovecraft and Kafka, but that was only to give a feel...thi...
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review 1: This is the final book in the Southern Reach trilogy. The Ghost Bird (the entity inhabiting the Biologist's body that is probably not really the Biologist) and Control enter Area X by means of powers granted the Biologist during her initial expedition, when she is exposed to bio...
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review 1: I did not like this one as well as Annihilation. I thought it was dry, in comparison to the richness of description that Area X and its effects offered. It was almost... boring. But when it does go to hell, does. it. ever. Mundane bureaucracy and office politics are the perfect p...
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review 1: I bought this book at the Strand in October (plucked it off a staff favorites stack because a) I do that a lot and b) it looked interesting). Then I read all these "best book of 2014" type lists and this trilogy was on all of them, so I figured it was time to see for myself. And....
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review 1: Annihilation is a sparse, haunting read by Jeff Vandermeer. The protagonist is so anti-social and wrapped up in her head she is a somewhat unknowable and unreliable narrator. Just as Area X is an unknowable space outside (?) the border of The Southern Reach. This novel reminds ...