Review – Annihilation – by Jeff Vandermeer

First in the Southern Reach trilogy.

I read this book.

I have no idea what it was about.

Was it a parable or some sort of metaphor for a life journey, ala the Odyssey or Dante or Pilgrim’s progress cloaked in a bunch of sci-fi words?

Was it a commentary on human existence?

Was it just a bunch of navel gazing to prove that using an unreliable narrator is, in fact, a valid literary approach?

Is it all some sort of fever dream that the main character has?

What is the point?  What happened?  Why?

I found it incredibly difficult to pick this up and read it through the end.

I guess I’m just not smart enough to appreciate it.