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Originally Posted by DrNefario
Next up I think I'm going to start on Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer, which has been creating some buzz this year. There are still few days left of the Autumn Sale at Amazon UK where I can get the second and third books slightly cheaper, so I'd better find out if I want them.
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Well,
Annihilation was fairly short and interesting - reminiscent of
Roadside Picnic, in that it involves an expedition into a part of the world where normal rules do not apply - and I'm still not quite sure if I want to pick up the other two. Maybe I'll compromise and just get the second one. There's not much explained, in
Annihilation, but I'm not sure that an explanation wouldn't ruin it.
I don't know what's next. Probably a heroic fantasy of some sort, although I have also been reading
Death at the President's Lodging by Michael Innes intermittently, and might just bring that up to full speed. (I believe it was called something else in the US, since it's not
that president. It's about a murder in an Oxbridge-style university college.) I need to catch up on my alphabetic detective challenge. This one is John Appleby, for A.