WEEK 4- Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer (6+ pts)

 Annihilation is one of my favorite movies but now I've gotten the privilege to read the book. 

Overall the book is a mix of lots of genres and filled with alluring situations. There's horror, suspence, thrills and there's a great look into self discovery but at what cost. They embark in a suicide mission for the sake of experiencing the upmost sublime -- they find themselves doing research in a private goverment owned piece of land in which there's a scientific phenomenon being expirienced. No one really wins in this embarkation. Due to the unavoidable collapse of the earth's ecosystem and the systems put in place to take care of our society a phenomenon hits a controlled goverment area. In fact, before the set of women went for this expendition, 11 other groups had attempted to go through the same mission in hopes of being able to report something. They all died, from suicide or many cancers collaborating- which I personally found very interesting how the enviroment reflects something about you and changes you so inherently that no matter what in one way or another you eventually will die. These women knew what they were getting themselves into yet everyone seemed to have nothing to lose. They want to experience a large phenomenon that changes them inside and out and that they did. The genetic matter within the four women who went into this journey changed and they often questioned if they were at some point more X matter then human. The self discovery and the discovery of the scientific phenomenon happening in this particular instance are all veiled by the idea of achieving discovery but achieving self destruction at the same time. The idea of building and destroying yourself go hand in hand in this book. There's an intersting look at the idea of one mutating and if that's for better of worse. I think it's interesting how in this novel no one really has names, they just have titles. Kind of how people don't name things they don't want to get attached to. You don't want to get attached to something you know is going to die for a fact. 

Regardless the book has themes of mysticism and ethereal killer spaces. There's alot of look at not just our sorroundings but alot of looking inwards in this book.