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I just finished this. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet :X I am intrigued enough to continue with the second book, though.
Just started this today!
Just finished! I loved how it was presented as the narrator looking back on her journey, though I felt it did distance us a bit until they came across the "tunnel" and the dialogue tags became more frequent. Just looked up the cast list on IMDb and I absolutely cannot see Natalie Portman as the biologist. ????
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Will you be reading the sequel?
Lea wrote: "Me neither, K. And apparently it's revealed in the next book that the Biologist was Asian (I don't think we got a description of her, or her name in Annihilation), so it's a miscast in more ways th..."We didn't get anyone's name or description, really, though that was entirely intentional. I probably will pick up the sequel eventually, but I didn't love this story enough to make it my next book, y'know? Reading the summary of it does sound like something I would enjoy, though - the inner workings of a shadowy government agency, my fave.
K. wrote: ".....though I felt it did distance us a bit until they came across the "tunnel" and the dialogue tags became more..."Yeah i thought so too but once the book got you engaged, you're captivated!
Once, i finished the book, i immedietely got on to the second and just started the third, the thing is that after you're done with each book, you're left with so many questions.
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Rachel wrote: "I'm so bummed my library copy hasn't come in yet :("The wait will be worth it imo :)
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Rachel wrote: "I actually just emailed my library a complaint lol. omg, I put it on hold on the 4th and there was 1 copy available on the shelf at the central branc.lh, and 4 others checked out. but the available..."someone else checked it out! that is unfair!
Natalie Portman? That's odd. In my mind the biologist was someone a little older and less "sweet" faced than Natalie. Hollywood...smh
Rozalina wrote: "Natalie Portman? That's odd. In my mind the biologist was someone a little older and less "sweet" faced than Natalie. Hollywood...smh"She was Rosario Dawson to me. To be fair, a lot of characters are Rosario Dawson in my head ...
Did this remind anyone else of Lovecraft? Not the style of the writing so much as the existential and all-encompassing horror the biologist & others faced?
I, unexpectedly, ended up loving this book! I kind of wish that (view spoiler)I'm certainly interested in the next 2 in the series, but want our biologist narrator back, mostly because I'm interested in the husband plot.
And I can't see Portman either. The scenery will be beautiful at least?
Ok, so I absolutely loved this and I'll certainly be reading the sequel (and likely the third). The atmosphere was addictive and I'm such a sucker for an unreliable narrator! I'm very interested to see how this will translate to film, my guess is that they'll likely use elements from the next book to flesh out the story a bit more for a wider audience, so I'll definitely finish the entire trilogy before seeing the movie.
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I love it, I'm about 60 pages in. Will hopefully finish tonight.
Winner of the 2015 Nebula Award.
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.
This is the twelfth expedition.
Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another, that change everything.