My Annihilation

Fuminori Nakamura

2022 • 265 pages

Ratings13

Average rating3.8

What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life. With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in the form of a confessional diary that implicates its reader in a heinous crime. Delving relentlessly into the darkest corners of human consciousness, My Annihilation interrogates the unspeakable thoughts all humans share that can be monstrous when brought to life, revealing with disturbing honesty the psychological motives of a killer.

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Nick Rankovic

The first third of the book gripped me. The rest was a little messy. Maybe that's the point. Very transgressive but I didn't feel it was impactful or added much to the story, guess it's because when you throw so much at the reader at once, they become desensitized.

June 13, 2023

Nate

Kind of a mess? Ambitious as fuck with a ton of cool ideas but wrapped in a thick layer of pseudoscience psychobabble. At its highest points? A transgressive masterpiece. At its lowest? Embarrassing nonsense.

March 6, 2022