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Antonin Scriabin20 May 2014, 19:32as archived
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Has anyone started the second volume of the Southern Reach trilogy yet? I'm about halfway through. It is much slower than the first volume ( Annihilation), but that is clearly intentional. There is a sort of slow, rolling eeriness to it that plays off the faster-paced first volume really well. Vandermeer knows how to feed little tidbits to keep it interesting, even when it meanders. I like Authority quite a bit, and am really curious to see where the hell all this strangeness is going.
Fred Kiesche20 May 2014, 19:33as archived
↳ in reply to Antonin Scriabin
It'll be up after Gannon - Gaiman - two Butler's - one Wolfe (I'm preparing for two different SF podcasts); all my non-directed reading is on hold. I blew through Annihilation in about a day, loved it. Looking forward to the second and third.
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On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>wrote: Has anyone started the second volume of the Southern Reach trilogy yet? I'm about halfway through. It is much slower than the first volume ( Annihilation), but that is clearly intentional. There is a sort of slow, rolling eeriness to it that plays off the faster-paced first volume really well. Vandermeer knows how to feed little tidbits to keep it interesting, even when it meanders. I like Authority quite a bit, and am really curious to see where the hell all this strangeness is going. _______________________________________________
Piotr Szczęsny20 May 2014, 19:43as archived
↳ in reply to Antonin Scriabin
I got the book recently. Loved annihilation and soon after finishing it I started the City of Saints and madmen, also great. Now I'm 100pages into Shriek, so I have authority on hold. 20 maj 2014 21:32 "Antonin Scriabin" <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> napisa?(a):
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Has anyone started the second volume of the Southern Reach trilogy yet? I'm about halfway through. It is much slower than the first volume ( Annihilation), but that is clearly intentional. There is a sort of slow, rolling eeriness to it that plays off the faster-paced first volume really well. Vandermeer knows how to feed little tidbits to keep it interesting, even when it meanders. I like Authority quite a bit, and am really curious to see where the hell all this strangeness is going. _______________________________________________
Craig Brewer21 May 2014, 15:57as archived
↳ in reply to Piotr Szczęsny
Authority is a fun ride, but much of what it shows seems to be setting up for the third. There's plenty of fun weirdness along the way, but I thought Annihilation played up the "Weird" brilliantly. I expect that Acceptance will cap it off well. Odd to say, but I feel like I won't know what I think about the second one until I read the third. I thought Whitby was an amazingly drawn...character? Person suffering and trying to maintain himself? But his appearances were always my favorite. I got the book recently. Loved annihilation and soon after finishing it I started the City of Saints and madmen, also great. Now I'm 100pages into Shriek, so I have authority on hold. 20 maj 2014 21:32 "Antonin Scriabin" <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> napisa?(a): Has anyone started the second volume of the Southern Reach trilogy yet? I'm about halfway through. It is much slower than the first volume (Annihilation), but that is clearly intentional. There is a sort of slow, rolling eeriness to it that plays off the faster-paced first volume really well. Vandermeer knows how to feed little tidbits to keep it interesting, even when it meanders. I like Authority quite a bit, and am really curious to see where the hell all this strangeness is going.
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes21 May 2014, 16:17as archived
↳ in reply to Craig Brewer
Craig - Your message turned up in my Spam filter. I think gmail is doing that to yahoo addresses kind of at random. --Dan'l
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On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote: Authority is a fun ride, but much of what it shows seems to be setting up for the third. There's plenty of fun weirdness along the way, but I thought Annihilation played up the "Weird" brilliantly. I expect that Acceptance will cap it off well. Odd to say, but I feel like I won't know what I think about the second one until I read the third. I thought Whitby was an amazingly drawn...character? Person suffering and trying to maintain himself? But his appearances were always my favorite. ------------------------------ From: Piotr Szcz?sny <neternalz at gmail.com> To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 1:43 PM Subject: Re: (urth) Authority I got the book recently. Loved annihilation and soon after finishing it I started the City of Saints and madmen, also great. Now I'm 100pages into Shriek, so I have authority on hold. 20 maj 2014 21:32 "Antonin Scriabin" <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> napisa?(a): Has anyone started the second volume of the Southern Reach trilogy yet? I'm about halfway through. It is much slower than the first volume ( Annihilation), but that is clearly intentional. There is a sort of slow, rolling eeriness to it that plays off the faster-paced first volume really well. Vandermeer knows how to feed little tidbits to keep it interesting, even when it meanders. I like Authority quite a bit, and am really curious to see where the hell all this strangeness is going. _______________________________________________

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