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[Discussion] Second Place Book Club Selection - Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer (lemmy.world)
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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.

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

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.