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Originally Posted by ilduclo
Just started 3rd book of the Vandermeer Area X trilogy. Not bad. Got em from my public library, so didn't (and wouldn't) buy em. :/
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First book was freaking brilliant. Second and third were both much less so, but overall still a fun and intense read.
I would have been perfectly happy if the whole thing had ended with Annihilation, and if all the background and surrounding mythology had been anyone’s guess. Would have been a helluva statement. That book was truly terrifying and unnerving in the best way, and ending it with a mystery would have been a-OK by me. It still ended with a mystery, really; just one with another 400 pages of exposition.
Had it just been Annihilation, I think it would have been truly singular, a near-Lovecraftian work of horror. I for one enjoy the occasional loose end, as the imagination can roam into some pretty fucked up places with the right stimuli.