"Silence creates its own Violence!"
Yes, the entire book is a psychedelic trip and I was so hooked up with it that I had to complete it in some 2 sittings or I would fall sick or something: the mystery in the plot was tearing me apart.

In a gist with an oblique perspective, I think this book questions our nature of reading: like Area X is metaphorically a book the biologist (you) want to read so bad: that you've been thinking about it, day-dreaming and drawn towards it. You see things in your environment that makes you more attracted towards the concept and the story that you expect from the plot. The biologist's husband (some binge-reader friend yours) is completely into it, shares the experience, recommends it to you, you're further attracted and so on... More obliquely it can describe a nerd's rush to get stoned and escape! Oh, I think I'm smoking much these days, it's getting in my veins like this book got me, Haha!

I think this book can work as a far sequel to "Alice in Wonderland", no kidding! That book was even more psychedelic as fuck. Like Alice grows up to become a biologist and in the way develops introversion and societal disillusionment, she's already wildly drawn towards nature! Okay, enough of this weird ideas here.

So this book is over-ambitious as it asks so many questions but not much answers here, I see it's a trilogy but that makes this part not stand-alone but dependent on the sequels. But if one is here just to enjoy the process of reading and not to expect much then it's totally amazing, harrowing and it's even so poignant as we engage in the quest to understand the plot as the protagonist strives to understand Area X and what a sheer-onerous that process is! but thrilling too along.

I've heard the movie is different from the book, I'm excited about that. I've been following Alex Garland since his book "The Beach" and with time he has polished his diamonds in the field of directing too like "Ex Machina" and Natalie Portman is my all time favourite actress.