Annihilation (Book Review)
This is a tough one for me. I liked it but was a little frustrated by the final twenty pages or so. I'm pretty sure I have no idea what happened in the book, but I'm not too bothered by that fact, since our narrator clearly doesn't know either and I'm not sure she would tell us if she did. Having said that, Annihilation is genuinely unsettling, especially the first third, and it's pretty hard to creep me out. Well done throughout, don't get me wrong, I just wish I'd had a better sense of where I was headed...or being led to.
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Thoughts, drafts, reviews, and opinions from Bruce McCandless, poet, amateur historian, bicyclist and attorney. I'm partial to Beowulf, Dylan, Cormac McCarthy, Leonard Cohen, Walt Whitman, Hillary Man
Thoughts, drafts, reviews, and opinions from Bruce McCandless, poet, amateur historian, bicyclist and attorney. I'm partial to Beowulf, Dylan, Cormac McCarthy, Leonard Cohen, Walt Whitman, Hillary Mantel, Wilco, and Steve Earle, chocolate, coffee, Colorado rivers and college football. I'd like it if you'd read a couple of my posts, and I'd love it if you'd comment. We all care about the written word. Let me read a few of yours.
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