Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
Annihilation is our second place selection for November. We decided to choose a second book for people who want to have a little more variety and want to do more than one book in a month. I am looking forward to the discussion on this one. I saw the movie when it came out but am really interested to experience the story in book form.
17 Comments
runningromeo@aussie.zone · 18 pts · 2y
Really enjoyed the first book. Started questioning things in the second. By the third, I was hate reading it to get to the end.
Without spoiling it, the ending completely failed to land for me. Just a hodgepodge of incomplete ideas and loose ends... If it was just the first book they could've told other stories and built a Lovecraftian mythos around it, but instead they had to go for the 3 book deal and by the end it was just too much toast and not enough butter for me.
GordomeansPhat@kbin.social · 7 pts · 2y
Are you me? Couldn't agree more. Enjoyed the first so much, kept going for some kind of resolution and got...blah.
scytale@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
This is why I stopped after the first book. I’ve seen a ton of people having that exact same sentiment.
AcornCarnage@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I don't often give up on books, but I couldn't finish the third. Maybe one day I'll go back, but yeah, it all went downhill after the first one.
Moghul@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Reading all these comments sure does make me wish I liked it...
Xyz@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 2y
I actually read about 50% of it, but something about the writing style was not working for me and I was focused more on how it was written than what was written. Stopped reading it. I actually like the movie and wanted the details only a book can provide.
Anyway maybe not relevant to you but if I don't like it, I don't read it. Too many other things to enjoy rather than trudging through something I don't.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y
Nice, literally finished it yesterday. Surprised at how different the second book is so far.
I love how fuzzy and surreal everything is in annihilation.
I'm kind of interested in watching the film again, but I want to let the book settle in first, since the story and setting felt so different to me then what I remember from the film.
An initial scene with a boar basically had me reliving princess mononoke while reading, it was very surprising and wonderful.
Lev_Astov@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
I thoroughly enjoyed that one. A different take on the Roadside Picnic genre and thoroughly weird.
YeetPics@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 2y
I loved these books. and actually I wasn't turned off by the movie. For just 90 minutes they did a good job of touching on most of the key aspects. The visuals were pretty close to how I had imagined it from the reading, anyway. I was hoping they would make a sequel to touch on the rest of the series but I'll take what I can get these days.
Lauchs@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
I dut this book so much. The kind of book you read in the dark for the good ol' tinglies.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 2y
I loved the first book. I read it after seeing the film, which I also loved.
Both seemed like a dream of the other.
The sequels I enjoyed, but you have to enjoy the journey: there is no conclusion. Though that is a form of story telling that I quite like.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
They also feel like completely different genres. Wild, surreal, uneasy.
MoreOrLess@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Great story
RBWells@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I haven't read this, mostly because when I saw the trailer for the movie I started screaming with joy in the theater because I thought Chaga (Evolution's Shore - oddly enough, by the author of the other November selection, Ian McDonald) had gotten a movie adaptation.
I did see and like the Annihilation movie OK.
So even if the book is not like the movie, I can't go in without prejudice. I was just so disappointed.
tekila@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I went into it hoping to capture the nostalgia of discovering and reading SCP when I first discovered them many years ago.
Unfortunately, Even though the premise looked really cool I found myself bored after the first book and never read the rest of the series.
Are the following books different? Is the film worth it?
AcornCarnage@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
The movie is good, though I felt it missed a lot of things I found interesting in the book. (Don't ask what exactly, it's been a while.)
If you were bored by the first book, don't even bother with the others.
tekila@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Thanks I might give the movie a try :)