If it were for sex, we wouldn’t marry one person. -- Scott Heim, author of Mysterious Skin and We Disappear Kaufman is content to swirl away from actual revelations, but his evocation of high-school life occupies the position where in any other kind of fiction an explanation might go. That's pretty low for this website, and I'm not really sure why people aren't connecting with this one because DAMN... this was great!
That's pretty low for this website, and I'm not really sure why people aren't connecting with this one because DAMN... this was great!
To rely on someone else, have him rely on you. It's been a couple hours since I finished this book and I still feel nauseous. I was constantly on edge reading this, particularly during the second half of the novel, and while the writing style was pretty simple, it was exactly what this type of story needed—just overall a really effective book.
We're all the. Iain Reid has crafted a tight, ferocious little book, with a persistent tenor of suspense that tightens and mounts toward its visionary, harrowing final pages." The bad news? " I'm Thinking of Ending Things is one of the best debut novels I've ever read.
His debut novel, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, was an international bestseller, and was translated into more than a dozen languages. Know me better than anyone else and maybe even me. I’m Thinking Of Ending Things. the universe is so strange. love. and once i could read again, but was stillthe universe is so strange. Midway through the novel, causality seems to fall away entirely, as the characters — both the principal players and the bit ones — begin making head-scratching decisions: deciding to tour the farm before dinner though it’s arguably too cold for comfort and too dark to see anything; deciding to explore the basement alone though there are scratches on a trap door that look “frantic”; deciding to stop for “something sweet” on the drive home after dinner though there’s now a full-on snowstorm and nobody is remotely hungry; deciding to drive down a remote, unplowed road in order to throw away the sweating cups of icy lemonade because they might melt and turn the cup holders sticky. Full of misgivings, a young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents' secluded farm. If you want a real scare, set aside your beloved horror classics—you know what darkness lurks within their pages, what chil...This is from Heidi on afterthingsend.com - I thought she summed it up beautifully:This is from Heidi on afterthingsend.com - I thought she summed it up beautifully:
Yes, yes, yes I got the ending. Despite second thoughts about their relationship, a young woman (Jessie Buckley) takes a road trip with her new boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) to his family farm. It's a slim volume that packs such a WALLOP! There are no other details. Who is this woman? Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of It's the kind of psychological thriller you want to devour in one sitting (and you can because of how short it is). I don't know how it ended. What would that feel like? )She has a clear, dispassionate glimpse of someone whose existence she really isn’t committed to and also of their supposed future lives together: a pointless, arbitrary entanglement, like all coupledom. I was immediately requesting this one on NetGalley the second I saw it, as it sounded right up my alley. What a mind f*ck!!! Loved it!