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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Reading all these comments sure does make me wish I liked it…
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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.