EdibleKnife
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I really need to get around to the third book
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First look at 'Annihilation' (Ex Machina director, Natalie Portman)
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I read the first two books and I thought I had stopped liking reading. Then I read something else and just realized the books are a slog.
The unreliable narrators are too unreliable and way t many shifts between past and present without clear traditions. While I respect that this was intention it didn't work for me.
I do plan on seeing this as Ex machina was amazing and I think this will play better as a movie
The unreliable narrators are too unreliable and way t many shifts between past and present without clear traditions. While I respect that this was intention it didn't work for me.
I do plan on seeing this as Ex machina was amazing and I think this will play better as a movie
The Illiterati
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I love Vandermeer's City of Saints and Madmen and Ambergris novels. I haven't read these books though. There's nothing like his other books out there though, they're amazing.
bggrthnjsus
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this book was good until the 2nd book and then it turned out to be kinda stupid
FantasticMrFoxdie
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I'm fucking in
Description sounds great
Description sounds great
Corleth the Fey
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Garland's come a long way since winning the Brown Trumpet award on Channel 4's teletext masterpiece Digitiser.
Ex Machina was genuinely great. I hope this can live up to that and that Oscar can tear up the fucking dance floor at least one more time.
Ex Machina was genuinely great. I hope this can live up to that and that Oscar can tear up the fucking dance floor at least one more time.
Rhomega Beta
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Maybe they should just stop sending expeditions.
Lord Error
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I remember this book series was listed in one GAF thread as having an unbelievably
If I remember correctly that it was that series, but the description is matching.
disappointing non-ending, lol. Like you read thousands of pages with a promise of some resolution, and in the end - nothing.
GiantEnemyGoomba
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This is up there with Star Wars and Dunkirk as my most anticipated movies of next year. Killer cast and I loved Ex Machina.
Sectorseven
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I hope Natalie Portman can play a biologist more convincingly than an astrophysicist, or a senator.
Haha I can see this movie biting a ton of people in the ass if they go in expecting what it sounds like people are already talking. I'm curious how they advertise this movie as showing it for what it will most likely be compared to what the synopsis reads like should be interesting. I know going into the first book I had a totally different set of expectations thanks to everyone talking about it and it was not what I was expecting when people were comparing it to stuff like Stalker.
I would say no. I mentioned that I thought I had stopped liking reading while reading these books, and realized they just weren't good
Kayo Police
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This is what I read too lol.
Its a fairly short, quick easy read with some decent prose. I finished it in an afternoon but I read fast. I thought it was pretty bad overall and relies on some paper thin characters to act crazy while being confused with everything going on around them. It was not very good and there are much better stories that cover the same ground.
So let me get this right, the send one expedition, it is a disaster. Then they send a second and it is a disaster. Then the send a third and it is a disaster... Why do they keep sending expeditions exactly? What is the motivation for not only sending expeditions but for the people to actually join them?
I'm gonna go ahead and say that an Alex Garland movie is sure to have better writing for her to work with than the Star Wars prequels and Thor movies.
DontBeThatGuy
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I'm a fan of everyone involved, and that's that's all I need to be sold on it.
Haha yeah this is not the series to go into hoping for concrete answers.
It gets explained in the books.
Don't read:
The zone is growing. Also: Participants are fed mostly need to know information. Some people have significant reasons to go there. Others are 'influenced'.
Androidsleeps
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One of the most anticipated movies for me, I loved the book and was deeply worried it'll end up depicted in a half-assed horror flick, but since Garland is writing/directing I have so much faith and the pictures look great.
I agree with most people here, the second book had some bits but it was a letdown (and I couldn't finish the 3rd). Part of me wants to see Authority on the screen, though :/
P.S. When I read the book, for some reason I always imagined the Psychologist character as Julianne Moore, but I can't complain about JJL. Oscar Isaac will make a perfect 'Control' but since this is the 1st book I'm guessing
I agree with most people here, the second book had some bits but it was a letdown (and I couldn't finish the 3rd). Part of me wants to see Authority on the screen, though :/
P.S. When I read the book, for some reason I always imagined the Psychologist character as Julianne Moore, but I can't complain about JJL. Oscar Isaac will make a perfect 'Control' but since this is the 1st book I'm guessing
Lighthouse keeper or husband?
BastardSamurai
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Audible members, if you're planning on spending a credit, it'd be more efficient to buy the Area X trilogy that packages all three audiobooks as one rather than just the first book. You can stop listening after 6 hours to do just the first book, and if you wanted to listen to the other two, it's better to get them all for one credit total rather than one credit each.
afternoon delight
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Heard the first book is incredible and after hearing its premise, this immediately became my most anticipated. Can't wait!
Messofanego
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Wow, that cast is great. Can't get enough of JJL. The premise sounds cool, thanks OP.
Paramount screened the first footage at CinemaCon tonight, and reactions seem to be positive. Bad news is it's been delayed to 2018, and still has no specific release date.
ZackieChan
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I think I bought the first book based on this thread, and have fallen asleep no less than 5 times trying to get through the beginning of the audiobook. I really need to power through it.
Damn it. Damn it.
Discotheque
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sounds great. fucking might have to wait all the way til potentially summer 2018 though?! smh
also wow I don't like Alexander Payne movies but that Downsizing explanation sounds pretty great. It's like Honey I Shrunk the Kids with economic relevance lol.
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a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
I support this, and I enjoyed all of them.
First book was something else though holy moley. I've never read anything quite like it since.
Sounds great but 2018 is a ways away.
andythinkpad
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The photos all have massive instagram filters so I have no idea what the film will look.
I was impressive by Ex Machina's setting but not the story nor the ending, but I will watch this movie.
I was impressive by Ex Machina's setting but not the story nor the ending, but I will watch this movie.
andythinkpad
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Sound like Prometheus sans the Aliens.
Messofanego
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What did you think of FilmCritHulk's interpretation of the film? I thought the ending was great, his essay solidified that.
Black_Stride
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Tessa Thompson......uggghhh.
Please put in effort with this role, the movie sounds cool, but some of tessa thompsons....stuff has been really "hammy".
Please put in effort with this role, the movie sounds cool, but some of tessa thompsons....stuff has been really "hammy".
karasu
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Natalie Portman bores me in anything that isn't Black Swan. She really doesn't make very interesting choices in her portrayals. Everything is just kind of flat. She cries and it's like what a kid does when it realizes that people think it's cute. So phony. I'll watch it to see how the director has grown.
Hard to say since some like them very much and others not so much. I would recommend Book 1, for the atmosphere alone. Book 2 is a massive roadblock though...
TheChewyWaffles
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Had no idea this was in the works. Will never be able to keep the tone of the books.
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