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I'm working my way through the Southern Reach trilogy at the minute, currently halfway through the last book. Annihilation is by far the best of the three but the others aren't all that bad. The second one is very different though, more of a slow burner but gets pretty creepy and tense. The third one is closer in tone to Annihilation so far.
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If you've not read it, Roadside Picnic by The Strugatsky brothers is worth a read. Very similar concept to Annihilation. It's the book Tarkovsky's film Stalker is based on.
ltc
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Some light holiday reading. Finished Dune. Was underwhelmed tbh, dunno what I was expecting but it didn’t do anything I wasn’t expecting. Final third all felt a bit rushed and sketchy.
Moved on to annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. Much better: creepy and unsettling, conceptually engaging. I hear that books two and three of the trilogy are dross so maybe will avoid.