The movie is a great adaptation of the first book - people were kicking off when it came out because it’s quite different but imo the changes were v appropriate, especially since they made it a single story rather than a trilogy of films
it is 2:30 and i am Awake and poking at my inbox but also keep remembering little details that were mentioned in passing that i will continue to think about
in that it also had like an encroaching sort of trippy alien landscape that transforms anyone and anything that goes inside it and redefines what it means to be human etc etc
i'm always like ahhhh when i suggest anything to anyone because i'm always like "unsure if this is actually good or if i developed a weird hyperfixation on it"
literally a book i found at a thrift store once lmao because my mom would let me do like the 10 books for $5 deal and i would just pick up shit with interesting covers
i described control earlier as "negative space" because he's defined by all the characters around him the writing style is just so neat and the way the characters unfold does stuff to my brain
I remember feeling like the breaks had been slammed on SO suddenly and it was all for the most boring man in existence - but it's been 10+ years and I'm excited to read it as like ... a different person lmao
i like this weird little cast of characters and the juxtaposition of this extremely mundane underfunded government entity with area x and the horror that is created just by those things existing next to each other constantly lol
I bet I wasn't even registering that at all - I'll have been wanting the fast-paced horror hit of the first one, not getting it, and having a tantrum about it
Fortunately now I've experienced the horrors of working in an underfunded place while the horrors persist outside (customer service lmfao) so I'm certain I'll find it more engaging
i need to start reading something new
sometimes it shows up as evolution's shore but i think that's the US title
because my mom would let me do like the 10 books for $5 deal and i would just pick up shit with interesting covers
and also that control can be dull lol
but i like that contrast