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britt_brooke
Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer
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“By the time we were ready to cross the border, we knew everything .... and we knew nothing.”

Definitely not my typical read, but once I was finally able to visualize Area X, I was intrigued enough to continue. On to the next one ...

#SouthernReach

Leftcoastzen I have read first two, need to get to the finale. 6y
britt_brooke @Leftcoastzen I‘ve heard the third one is best. I‘m reading book 2 now. 6y
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britt_brooke
Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer
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I‘m on book one and husband is on book 2. This is a real rarity. We often have very differing tastes. I‘m still not sure if I love or hate #Annihilation, but I need to know wtf is going on so I think #Vandermeer has done his job. #SouthernReach

eanderson I am in the same boat... not sure if I loved or hated it. I think about it still though 6y
BornReadChicago My husband and I did a buddy read for this too! It was fun to try and figure it all out together, and watch the movie! No, we didn‘t figure anything out... 6y
britt_brooke @eanderson Did you read all three? I‘m not a big series person, but I‘m curious enough to continue. I‘m almost finished with the first one. 6y
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vivastory I loved these. I also really liked the movie. 6y
DimeryRene I felt the same way! Had no idea what was happening but was still interested and needed everything uncovered! 6y
Reviewsbylola My husband was mildly bored with the first book and hated the second book so much he couldn‘t finish it. 😂😂 I‘m guessing the third book will go unread. Lesson to be learned is don‘t buy the whole series at once. 😂 6y
britt_brooke @Reviewsbylola 😆 Damn! So, I‘ve heard the third book is the best, but idk. I grabbed all 3 randomly at goodwill for $3 and thought, hell, maybe one of us will read them. 6y
Reviewsbylola It seems like an obvious choice for my husband and now I can‘t remember why he hated them so much. 6y
Crystalblu @Reviewsbylola give book 3 a chance! I was let down hard by book 2, but really enjoyed 3. 6y
Reviewsbylola It was my husband that was reading them, not me. I would pass that on to him but he is stubborn as hell and wouldn‘t listen. 🤣🤣🤣 @Crystalblu 6y
batsy I love this series and I have a soft spot for the first one, but was talking about this with a friend and we decided that Book 2, despite its flaws, is the creepiest one 🙂💀👾 6y
RainyDayReading I‘m currently reading this and I don‘t have any idea what the hell is going on and it‘s both intriguing and maddening. I‘m enjoying it though so far. 6y
Cathythoughts I loved this series very much 6y
eanderson I‘ve read the first two and still need to read Acceptance. The second one is weirder than the first. 😳 6y
Vansa I think the second book was pretty unnecessary , really. It didn't add to anything. 6y
Anton Put me in the "hated it" category but I dug the movie version. 6y
britt_brooke @BornReadChicago I grabbed Authority from the library so now we‘re both reading that. We‘ve never read the same book at the same time. It‘s kind of fun! 6y
britt_brooke @RainyDayReading I feel the same way. I guess it‘s intentional! 😬👍🏻 6y
britt_brooke @Cathythoughts @eanderson @Vansa @Anton I enjoy reading everyone‘s thoughts on these books. I started the 2nd one this afternoon. Very curious about the film! 6y
Vansa I found The movie quite terrible!!! 😀 6y
britt_brooke @Vansa Ha! That‘s good to know. 😆 6y
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BiblioNyan
Authority: A Novel | Jeff VanderMeer
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nofutureparttwo
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The final (and weirdest) book of the #SouthernReach trilogy, Acceptance adopts a fractured, multi-perspective narrative to recount both the beginning and end of the story of Area X. The effect is something like the temporal dilation of the quarantine zone itself; timelines run together and echo each other. My least favorite, and the weakest overall—but a worthwhile and fitting conclusion feat. This trilogy was unlike anything I have ever read.

RaimeyGallant Sounds interesting. 6y
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nofutureparttwo
Authority: A Novel | Jeff VanderMeer
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The second installment in VanderMeer‘s unsettling #SouthernReach trilogy was a little bumpy for me at first. Whereas Annihilation was a first-person account (that reads like if Shirley Jackson had written Walden), Authority takes on similar themes—the uncanny; the unconscious and the split subject; being un-at home with oneself—in the generic form of a psychological Le Carréian spy novel. It lagged a bit, but I came to love it in a different way.

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nofutureparttwo
Authority: A Novel | Jeff VanderMeer
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Slow night at the store, so i‘m getting quite a bit of reading done! I‘m about 80 pages into the second book in VanderMeer‘s #SouthernReach trilogy, and while I‘m enjoying it, it has yet to grab me quite like Annihilation did (which was all the more gripping for being so absurdly compact). Hoping it‘ll change soon.

WanderingBookaneer I‘ve picked it up thrice and have always bailed. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 7y
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Maddyflake
Authority: A Novel | Jeff VanderMeer
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"For the director trailed plumes of emerald dust and behind her the nature of the world was changing, filling with a brightness, the rain losing its depth, its darkness. The thickness of the layers of the rain getting lost, taken away, no longer there.

The border was coming to the Southern Reach."

#goosebumps #authority #southernreach #jeffvandermeer #areaX

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nofutureparttwo
Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer
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“That‘s how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.”

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Oh my GOD. I just started the first installment of VanderMeer‘s eco-horror #SouthernReach trilogy last night, and I‘m hooked. Reminds me of Justin Cronin at his best. #AllEyes #audiobook #libby #nowreading #nowlistening

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notamara
Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer
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I‘ve literally just put the book down, but I think this may have become one of my favourite books. I absolutely loved the writing style, the pacing of the story, the vividness of the biologist‘s narration. I‘ve seen people hate the ending because of its lack of closure, but I personally think that it served the narrative very well. Can‘t wait to get my hands on the rest of the #southernreach trilogy! #annihilation #jeffvandermeer

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JessicaThunstromNelson
Authority: A Novel | Jeff VanderMeer
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I hope this one is better than the last, which didn't live up to the hype, to me, but judging by what I've seen glancing through others' posts just now, I kind of doubt it. Bought all three at once, though, so fingers crossed. #authority #SouthernReach #JeffVandermeer