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Jeff VanderMeer's Borne

5 replies, 2 voices Last updated by Nicky Agate 5 years, 8 months ago
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    • 26 April 2017 at 10:20 am EDT #4209

      Nicky Agate
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      @terrainsvagues

      My copy of Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne arrived this morning in the mail. Has anyone else read or taught it (or his Southern Reach Trilogy)?

    • 27 April 2017 at 1:15 pm EDT #4215

      Sophia Booth Magnone
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      I was totally entranced by the Southern Reach trilogy. I’ve been thinking about how I’d like to teach it—probably just the first book, since the trilogy’s so long. If anyone has put it on a syllabus, I’d be really interested to hear how that went!

    • 27 April 2017 at 1:16 pm EDT #4216

      Sophia Booth Magnone
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      Oh, and I’m looking forward to learning more about Borne at a reading Vandermeer is doing here in a couple weeks.

    • 27 April 2017 at 4:56 pm EDT #4219

      Nicky Agate
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      The LA Times just gave it quite the review. I can’t wait to start it, but I’m reading Cryptonomicon right now, and have to finish that first (almost there…)!

    • 8 July 2017 at 10:54 pm EDT #6785

      Sophia Booth Magnone
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      @sophiamagnone

      Picking this thread up months later… I wrote a little piece on the Southern Reach Trilogy for the website Somatosphere. I’d love to hear thoughts on it if anyone is interested!

      http://somatosphere.net/2017/07/human-contamination-the-infectious-border-crossings-of-jeff-vandermeers-area-x.html

      • 10 July 2017 at 11:31 am EDT #6798

        Nicky Agate
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        @terrainsvagues

        Thanks, Sophia! Will check it out tonight.  As an aside, I just binge-read Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland’s The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., which, because it featured (a) time travel, (b) excessive bureaucracy, and (c) the military-industrial complex, was a thoroughly enjoyable read!

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