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    From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Nov 25 11:07:23 2023
    On 11/25/2023 10:05 AM, [email protected] wrote:
    On Saturday, November 25, 2023 at 12:47:29 PM UTC-5, Dimensional Traveler wrote:


    I've read the book version of 'Annihilation' and seen the movie. The
    movie was a low quality mess. The book was orders of magnitude worse
    and the second and third books in the Southern Reach series were in a
    full power nose dive from there.

    I haven't read the book, but the science in the movie was pretty bad. The idea that the book was much worse is bothersome.

    The series was not a science fiction series. It used a vaguely SF
    background to do deep soul searching philosophical ponders. For three
    books. By the end of the third book I had lost count of number of
    "gazing into one's own navel's navel" iterations it had gone through.

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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  • From Lynn McGuire@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Nov 27 15:32:22 2023
    On 11/25/2023 12:05 PM, [email protected] wrote:
    On Saturday, November 25, 2023 at 12:47:29 PM UTC-5, Dimensional Traveler wrote:


    I've read the book version of 'Annihilation' and seen the movie. The
    movie was a low quality mess. The book was orders of magnitude worse
    and the second and third books in the Southern Reach series were in a
    full power nose dive from there.

    I haven't read the book, but the science in the movie was pretty bad. The idea that the book was much worse is bothersome.

    The movie was weird. I liked it. I did watch it for free on Netflix.
    Twice.

    Lynn

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