where lies the strangling fruit...Area X - The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer

i still have fond memories of reading these books. they hit me at the exact right time. that creature doing the writing was so memorable! and trippy. i know everything is psychedelic now but i thought that there was stuff in these books that hit upon those feelings of being on psych drugs that other things don't get to. deeper dream feelings. whereas some of the psychedelic nature horror movies that have come out since these books came out don't really. including the bad movie made out of these books.
i just had a dream last night where i was taking old moldy sausages out of a freezer and they slowly turned into what looked like long dead frozen creatures and i put them all into a black trash bag and walked outside and the backyard of my house had a stream of what looked like moving white concrete or clay running down a hill and then i saw there was a huge black pool of thick liquid that people were playing in and i couldn't understand what the blackness was. i kept walking so that i could put my trash on the curb.
not every book or movie can get me to that place that already exists in my head. but these books did it.

I’ve held off on going beyond the first book (on the advice of many people), but man… Annihilation blew my mind.

Or: Scott OTM

Scott you need to write a novel

Raymond the whole trilogy is worth reading imho, the middle one is a little meh but the final one had me biting my damn fingernails