that wasn't the plan and then lol

i started and i was like well i can't not see how this ends

reading this when i am also on my e33 braincell was a lot

2025 expeditionmaxxing

i'm not even sure what to say!!! other than it lit my brain up lmao

i love a rambling introspective narrative (anyone who has rped with me knows.....................)

SPOOKY

this understood me on a body horror level

this character!!! no one has names it's insane that's amazing

i am still wondering why like that is such a choice

This is EXACTLY the experience

The same thing happened to me when I read it the first time

GOD YEAH have you seen the movie

Straight up rewired my brain

i have not seen the movie but i want to see the movie

I’m so glad you loved it!

horrology: you did post a very compelling recommendation that time lmao

i have been told that the next book is a little weird but trust the process lmao

It’ll also have been me who said the next book is a little weird lmao, but the third one wrecked me to the point I couldn’t finish it (positive)

I need to go back to it

PROMISING

The movie is a great adaptation of the first book - people were kicking off when it came out because it’s quite different but imo the changes were v appropriate, especially since they made it a single story rather than a trilogy of films

i finished a dance with dragons earlier today because i was like
i need to start reading something new

i love asoiaf but i did the entire series all in a row which took me a LONG TIME

and actually the last uhhh 40% of that was good IT WAS JUST REALLY LONG

so it was kind of nice to not have to read something 1100 pages long

OH IT'S ALEX GARLAND

PROMISING x2

i only recently learned that this man is attached to a significant number of movies i like very much

tomorrow's dinner movie

it is 2:30 and i am Awake and poking at my inbox but also keep remembering little details that were mentioned in passing that i will continue to think about

like how when they went past the lighthouse it took them seven days to go that far but only four days to get back

the rule where you're not allowed to bring advanced technology in there

the door that is wrong and horrible that she couldn't get closer to

but i will also say this reminded me very much of another book series that i read before and am now tempted to reread

in that it also had like an encroaching sort of trippy alien landscape that transforms anyone and anything that goes inside it and redefines what it means to be human etc etc

Drop this other series name please

goddamn i need to READ THIS ffs i've been procrastinating so hard but i adore... annihilation...

(the movie)

so i feel like i'd fucking love the books

frooting: I THINK YOU WOULD ENJOY IT FROOT

I TRUST YOUR TASTE IN EVERYTHING WITH MY LIFE

horrology: chaga by ian mcdonald
sometimes it shows up as evolution's shore but i think that's the US title

i'm always like ahhhh when i suggest anything to anyone because i'm always like "unsure if this is actually good or if i developed a weird hyperfixation on it"

literally a book i found at a thrift store once lmao
because my mom would let me do like the 10 books for $5 deal and i would just pick up shit with interesting covers

i read a lot of questionable medical horror mysteries

UGH MIN THE MOVIE IS SO GOOD I saw it in theaters and it was such a good watch I highly recommend

so

i am about 60% through the second book and really enjoying it lmao

i described control earlier as "negative space" because he's defined by all the characters around him the writing style is just so neat and the way the characters unfold does stuff to my brain

GOOD I’m glad you’re enjoying it! I’m now even more inspired to try the second one again

horrology: lmao yeah i think it is perfect to follow up the first book so far

like i get the criticism that it feels weird and different from the first one
and also that control can be dull lol
but i like that contrast

I remember feeling like the breaks had been slammed on SO suddenly and it was all for the most boring man in existence - but it's been 10+ years and I'm excited to read it as like ... a different person lmao

I fully believe 20 year olds know nothing

i like this weird little cast of characters and the juxtaposition of this extremely mundane underfunded government entity with area x and the horror that is created just by those things existing next to each other constantly lol

Rubs hands together

like area x is extremely, viscerally real for all of them and the government keeps cutting their budget lol

I bet I wasn't even registering that at all - I'll have been wanting the fast-paced horror hit of the first one, not getting it, and having a tantrum about it

Fortunately now I've experienced the horrors of working in an underfunded place while the horrors persist outside (customer service lmfao) so I'm certain I'll find it more engaging

lmao yeah i believe that 100% i would have felt different at 20 but now i know the horrors of capitalism and office jobs