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I have finally finished the last book of the Southern Reach series by Jeff VanderMeer!
This series has been a wild ride, a great trilogy finished off by a wonderfully cherry-on-top prequel.
Absolution is a very compelling and thought provoking book, which walks the line of the unknown very competently. It leaves a lot of things unsaid, unexplainable, jumbled - though never frustrating.
This kind of thing is a prime example of great cosmic horror: Something that terrifies merely by its incomprehensibility. Southern Reach does what in my opinion even a lot of Lovecrafts stories fail to do: Deliver its horror through its mysteriousness.
The setting of the Forgotten Coast, with all its deep characters and complicated plotlines, will stay in my mind for a long time. Truly memorable, innovative and elevated through the strangeness of it's writing.
The prose is complicated and makes quick reading really difficult, which is actually good, to a degree. It helps settle you more in the moment and strengthens the horror, especially if you sometimes can't understand what a sentence is actually meant to mean.
The book has so many memorable visuals, the main one being The Tyrant, who is beautifully illustrated on the cover. The Tyrant is a massive alligator, who is everywhere and nowhere, travels time and space, both is and becomes other people. The nature and purpose of that isn't explained and shouldn't be. The Tyrant is also on the cover, one of the most beautiful covers among books I know.
Speaking of VanderMeer, might as well show him off to the public. Now including his fish daughter Mariana Truth VanderMeer!
OOOOH city of stairs looks 👀👀 i loveeee weird fantasy. OH AND forgot to mention arkady martin's teixcalaan also. political scifi with brain ghosts YAAAAY i love brain ghosts as a trope i have so many of them in my collection. plural guy likes brain ghosts who could have GUESSED!!!
Teixcalaan!
I had these memories that had the texture of a Radch story but couldn't remember where from. Hell yeah.
Off topic, my main other obsession is weird horror. In novels, Vandermeer, China Mieville, and probably others I can't remember right now. In film, Alien, Alien, Alien, Alien, etc.
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I am STARVING for Borne discourse. I am pretty late to the party, so a lot of online discussions are several years old. I gathered up some book clubs and reading guides here. SPOILERS obvs.
Macmillan published a reading group guide
Links to r/books book club threads:
Discussion Thread for Part 1 of Borne
Second Discussion Thread for Borne
Third Discussion Thread for Borne
Final Discussion Thread for Borne
J Dilla, rapper, producer on what would have been his 49th birthday. Artwork by the insanely talented @damovdm If you haven't checked out his work, you really should. #jdilla #jdillachangedmylife #vandermeer #blackpugrecords #blackpugskateboards (at East Maitland, New South Wales, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoYNe-XSiVX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
A latticework of light shadows, the trees beyond like figures standing in judgement.
Dead Astronauts, Jeff Vandermeer