Jeff VanderMeer's "Absolution" is a dark mirror to the Southern Reach Trilogy

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Originally published at: Jeff VanderMeer's "Absolution" is a dark mirror to the Southern Reach Trilogy - Boing Boing

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I enjoyed the writing in all of the books but in the end I guess I need more resolution than Jeff VanderMeer was willing to give me.

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I’d be curious to know if Absolution provides you with the sense of closure you were looking for! There are definitely some “answers,” of a sort, or at least, some new context that makes the bigger picture even clearer (though it’s still not all spelled out explicitly every time).

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Agreed. The books are like elaborate tableaus, weird for the sake of weirdness, with no grounding. They are dreamlike in that anything can happen in a dream. While the writing was good, I don’t care to hear anyone else’s dreams.

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I was glad I read the original books, but can’t see myself reading these ones. Not because they aren’t written well, but because I felt awful once I finished reading them.

I had the same feeling after most John Irvine books. Really well written unpleasant experiences.

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I enjoyed the original trilogy, and I enjoyed Borne. However I found Dead Astronauts (sequel to Borne) so difficult that I gave it up halfway through. So I won’t be reading this new sequel trilogy.

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This article has so many errors that reading it was painful.

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Thanks that was so helpful!!

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Annihilation , most of the characters here have stripped of their names and identities,
Here are just two examples of non existent editing.

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Okay got it, thanks!

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