• Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Yeah, I was a third of the way through and realized it kinda sucked. I did stick it out to the end though.

    One of the plot points has the main character literally act out scenes from classic movies. It’s never a good idea to remind the reader that there’s better entertainment that they could be enjoying right now.

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      8 days ago

      I forced myself to finish foolishly hoping the ending would blow my mind. Now people keep telling me the movie is even better but I’m like that’s such a low bar I’ll just go read Annihilation again or something

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        8 days ago

        Same. I like Spielberg, but after reading the book I can’t imagine I’d like the movie!

        There’s mind-blowingly bad stuff in the world building.