Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)

Posted on 05 September 2017 by Jeff VanderMeer

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. New Download Kindle ePUB Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1) By Jeff VanderMeer – kino-fada.fr but whether it decays under the earth or above on green fields, or out to sea or in the very air, all shall come to revelation, and to revel, in the knowledge of the strangling fruit and the hand of the sinner shall rejoice, for there is no sin in shadow or in light that the seeds of the dead cannot forgive An Anthropologist, a Surveyor, a Psychologist, ...I am sure that it will shock to many readers my low rating of this popular novel, but sadly I think that it s the best way to express my own personal reading experience with the book And I prefer to be honest than just giving a high rating if I don t believe on it.First of all, I don t hate the author and I am not looking for affecting the average rating of this novel.Basically, I had to balance the meaning of each rating here on Goodreads against what I thought about my reading experience with I am sure that it will shock to many readers my low rating of this popular novel, but sadly I think that it s the best way to express my own personal reading experience with the book And I prefer to be honest than just giving a high rating if I don t believe on it.First of all, I don t hate the author and I am not looking for affecting the average rating of this novel.Basically, I had to balance the meaning of each rating here on Goodreads against what I thought about my reading experience with the novel, and I realized that I wasn t confortable even thinking on the book that I like it which it would imply a 3 stars rating, so at the end, I opted to give it a 2 star rating...Really good books Very different Very atmospheric and different than anything else I ve ever read.I read part of this trilogy off the page and listened to some of it on audiobook And looking back, I wish I d read the entire thing off the page I think it would have been a better overall experienc...FINE, FINE, FINE, I m buying book 2.Well it seems like Annihilation has divided the SF community into two, lovers and meh ers I m pretty sure I m one of the latter I have been trying to think why a novel with a blurb that instantly sparked my curiousity was just so bleh There are parts here that I love I think the whole novel was under a cloud of boring, grey fungus spores While you have this wonderful premise of an expedition to a remote Area X where the world is not quite right after some mysterious intervention from out Well it seems like Annihilation has divided the SF community into two, lovers and meh ers I m pretty sure I m one of the latter I have been trying to think why a novel with a blurb that instantly sparked my curiousity was just so bleh There are parts...Really a waste of time The book seems to be going for the eerie each man is every man type of feeling that you got from Cormac McCarthy s The Road, in which none of the characters have names Here we have a small group of women, among them the psychologist, the surveyor, and the biolgist our narrator exploring Area X, a supernatural type district that borders our own m...Four women, the twelfth such expedition, enter the mysterious Area X to observe and collect samples Will the calamities that have befallen previous expeditions befall them as well I d read four Jeff VanderMeer books prior to this one and they were all unsettling in one way or another This one was par from the course.Annihilation is a horror tale about secrecy, the unknown, and insanity The biologist is the narrator and an unreliable one at that The other characters are known only by their jo Four women, the twelfth such expedition, enter the mysterious Area X to observe and collect samples Will the calamities that have befallen previous expeditions befall them as well I d read four Jeff VanderMeer books prior to this one and they were all unsettling in one way or another This one was par from the course.Annihilation is a ho...I was expectingfrom this book I will read the next one at some point, mainly because I know there is a next book If I didn t know there was one, I don t think I would have been left expectingThe book did not really draw me in and I found it to be somewhat repetitious All this was disappointing considering the hype I have heard about it.But, since there are two others in the series, and the series as a whole is critically acclaimed perhaps I will find somethingas the story I was expectingfrom this book I will read the next one at some point...Rating 4 of five MOVIE UPDATE The Alex Garland adaptation will hit theaters on 23 February 2018 Garland s 2014 debut was Ex Machina, for which he got an Academy award nominationlet s hope this means good things The Publisher Says 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 Rating 4 of five MOVIE UPDATE The Alex Garland adaptation will hit theaters on 23 February 2018 Garland s 2014 debut was Ex Machina, for which he got an Academy award nominationlet s hope this means good things The Publisher Says Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades Natu... I am convinced now that I and the rest of the expedition were given access to these records for the simple reason that, for certain kinds of classified information, it did not matter what we knew or didn t know There was only one logical conclusion Experience told our superiors that few if any of us would be coming back.Area X is thought to be a myth A conspiracy theory Something whispered about in environmental circles.But it s real Appearing 30 years ago and baffling everyone with its exi I am convinced now that I and the rest of the expedition were given access to these records for the simple reason that, for certain kinds of classified information, it did not matter what we knew or didn t know There was only one logical conclusion Experience told our superiors that few if any of us would be coming back.Area X is thought to be a myth A conspiracy theory Something whispered about in environmental circles.But it s real Appearing 30 years ago and baffling everyone with its existence The government has sent people trained people, skilled people to explore Area X and try to come up with some explanation for it Those people have disappeared Or died Or killed themselves Or murdered each other Occasionally, they actually return from Area X, as pale pathetic shells of the people they once were, their personalities seemingly extracted by the unknown force which has claimed that part of the count...

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05 September 2017

Jeff VanderMeer