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David Lynch’s Silent Hill. Not a horror book at all, but more so a brilliantly paced psychological thriller that peels layers I'd your mind little by little as the snowy weather out in this liminal landscape gets worse and worse. What are you waiting for? The first two things you'll notice about Ian Reid’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things are, just how shockingly short it is, and the exuberant amount of eerie atmosphere he is able to exude in each page. What are you waiting for? With such well-crafted pacing and little hints of context and foreshadowing here and there, I applaud Reid for not relying on cliches or jumpscares as he lets this strange story just marinate in your brain. That all too familiar feeling you have when you think someone or something else is in your room as you're lying down to sleep persists throughout a majority of this brisk and sprinkled mysterious read. What are you waiting for?
Alongside the aforementioned Lynchian vibes, there are a handful of moments throughout ITOET that called to mind Gerald’s Game and the iconic and massively underrated cartoon, Courage the Cowardly Dog. Ranging from King Ramses, Freaky Fred, and the episode where Courage is opening various doors to reveal different horrors, the book dripped with a surreal nightmarish plane of our character’s reality. What are you waiting for? But beyond the more creepy elements, I think the true horror lies within the more mundane real-world struggles and fears depicted and hinted at within: the fear of failure, what-if dream scenarios, failed relationships, isolation, loneliness, and being stuck in your hometown. Reid doesn't explicitly dive deep into themes of mental health, but it's irrefutably poured over the narrative from its opening words, “I’m thinking of ending things,” to the closing words.
This is a rare book where the word of mouth hype around it actually holds true by the time you finish reading it. It isn't as mind-blowing as I had expected—seeing how I pieced it together mostly before the halfway mark—but my detective penchant didn't obstruct any of my enjoyment and intrigue. I highly recommend this, especially if you're a fellow fan of any shows, film, games I mentioned. Bonus points if you read this at a window table of a Dairy Queen during winter.
David Lynch’s Silent Hill. Not a horror book at all, but more so a brilliantly paced psychological thriller that peels layers I'd your mind little by little as the snowy weather out in this liminal landscape gets worse and worse. What are you waiting for? The first two things you'll notice about Ian Reid’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things are, just how shockingly short it is, and the exuberant amount of eerie atmosphere he is able to exude in each page. What are you waiting for? With such well-crafted pacing and little hints of context and foreshadowing here and there, I applaud Reid for not relying on cliches or jumpscares as he lets this strange story just marinate in your brain. That all too familiar feeling you have when you think someone or something else is in your room as you're lying down to sleep persists throughout a majority of this brisk and sprinkled mysterious read. What are you waiting for?
Alongside the aforementioned Lynchian vibes, there are a handful of moments throughout ITOET that called to mind Gerald’s Game and the iconic and massively underrated cartoon, Courage the Cowardly Dog. Ranging from King Ramses, Freaky Fred, and the episode where Courage is opening various doors to reveal different horrors, the book dripped with a surreal nightmarish plane of our character’s reality. What are you waiting for? But beyond the more creepy elements, I think the true horror lies within the more mundane real-world struggles and fears depicted and hinted at within: the fear of failure, what-if dream scenarios, failed relationships, isolation, loneliness, and being stuck in your hometown. Reid doesn't explicitly dive deep into themes of mental health, but it's irrefutably poured over the narrative from its opening words, “I’m thinking of ending things,” to the closing words.
This is a rare book where the word of mouth hype around it actually holds true by the time you finish reading it. It isn't as mind-blowing as I had expected—seeing how I pieced it together mostly before the halfway mark—but my detective penchant didn't obstruct any of my enjoyment and intrigue. I highly recommend this, especially if you're a fellow fan of any shows, film, games I mentioned. Bonus points if you read this at a window table of a Dairy Queen during winter.
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