Just finished reading Annihilation - strange book
Just finished reading Annihilation - strange book
After seeing it on the list in this thread, I decided to read Annihilation, and I just finished it. As others said it's weird (I like weird, so it's one of the reasons I wanted to read it). The writing style really reminded me of H.P. Lovecraft, which is to say it's a bit stilted. I'm glad I read it - it's an interesting world and the story is told in an interesting way - but it's not a book I'll recommend to a lot of my friends. Some of them, maybe.
Have any of you read it? What did you think?
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Annihilation is a good book, but the hype it got is much more due to:
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the fact that it arrived at the peak of the new wave of interest for Weird lit,
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its (again, very timely) environmental spin to weird fiction,
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the fact that Vandermeer worked a lot to present himself as THE authority on Weird fiction, with his articles, collections, prefaces to reissues of older books and so forth.
I missed all the hype and only heard about it more recently, so my expectations were a bit lower. It was good, but it had flaws in my opinion.
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