I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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Narrated by:
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Candace Thaxton
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By:
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Iain Reid
About this listen
Soon to be a Netflix film directed by Charlie Kaufman
Jake and his girlfriend are on a drive to visit his parents at their remote farm. After dinner at the family home, things begin to get worryingly strange. And when he leaves her stranded in a snowstorm at an abandoned high school later that night, what follows is a chilling exploration of psychological frailty and the limitations of reality.
Iain Reid's intense, suspenseful debut novel will have listeners' nerves jangling. A series of tiny clues sprinkled through the relentlessly paced narrative culminate in a haunting twist. Reminiscent of Michael Faber's Under the Skin, Stephen King's Misery and the novels of José Saramago, I'm Thinking of Ending Things is an astonishing and highly original literary thriller that grabs you from the start - and never lets go.
©2016 Iain Reid (P)2016 Simon & SchusterCritic Reviews
"In a novel this engaging, bizarre and twisted, it shouldn't come as a surprise that its ending is even stranger than the narrative route that takes us there...but it does. Reid's novel is a road trip to the heart of creepyness." (Sjon)
"I'm Thinking of Ending Things is one of the best debut novels I've ever read. 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." (Scott Heim)
"Here are some near-certainties about I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Number One: You're going to read it fast. Over the course of an afternoon or an evening. The momentum is unstoppable once you start, you won't be able to stop. And Two: once you race to the end and understand the significance of those final pages, you won't be able to stop thinking about it. This novel will find a spot in your heart and head and it will live there - for days, weeks, months, or (in my case) the rest of your life. Yes. It really is that good." (Nick Cutter)
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- Kym B.
- 26-06-2024
time I'll never get back
a repetitive story that tries to have a twist but is just nonsensical. you keep listening hoping it will get better - it doesn't. I even replayed the last few chapters thinking I'd fallen asleep and missed something but no.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-01-2024
Pretentious?
Narrator was quite good considering so many characters and the fact a lot of it is thoughts, which limits inflection etc. Found the actual story to be quite boring and uninspired. Once you figure out who the bad guy is/how it all played out, it only really explains some of the extra weird details that are made out to be so important earlier on, making it feel like there was a lot of liberation taken with the psychological profiling/reasoning of said bad guy. The two main characters absolutely insufferable!
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- Anonymous User
- 28-06-2023
Couldnt stop listening
I loved it… so clever…wish i had written it… performance also very well done
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- Anonymous User
- 11-10-2020
Incredible!
Not going too much into the storyline itself for fear of revealing spoilers, but this book is incredible for so many reasons! The performance from Candace Thaxton was very good too. It was very rare that I would have to think about who was speaking. Granted, this is not a book one can idly listen to while doing other things. I had to focus on what was being said and what was being happening to understand the climax of the book, but the payoff was well worth the effort. Definitely recommend!
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- Mel
- 18-01-2021
One sitting
This was an interesting story. I heard it’s written to be consumed in one sitting, so that’s what I did. The ending is ambiguous and the story as a whole is a little strange, but it’s still enjoyable.
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- Lamby13
- 29-03-2022
Confusing
I’m still not entirely sure I know what happened even after the end, a bit too philosophical for my taste.
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- Sister Luke
- 07-08-2023
Compelled a one-sitting listen
The narratress's voice is far too frantic. One of those audiobook readers who has the habit of putting too much emphasis on every line, every word (I found Andy Serkis like this). It makes the dialogue too fraught, makes the characters sound like they're always annoyed, makes every conversation an argument. I assume it's just the default vocal pattern she falls into with all her books. Reading the lines on the page they would be much more languid, low-key I think, and therefore more eerie. However the twist that comes in the narration toward the end was unexpected and very good (I wonder what it looked like on the page?).
As for the story, what I thought at first (going mostly off the Netflix movie trailer) was going to be a low-key postmodern vaguely feminist familial/folk horror piece turned out to in fact be a genuinely haunting, though not very harrowing, postmodern exploration of mental illness in a way that felt to me at least truly original. The 'twist' I saw coming, if not a mile away, then at least a good few hundred yards away. How very sad. And more than a little close to home.
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- Anonymous User
- 27-08-2021
Chilling
The beginning of the book is seemingly normal, but eventually makes the reader unsettled as the story progresses. Big twist at the end, highly recommend.
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- Ana Obradovic
- 01-12-2022
Perfect narration
And a strong story. I hope to hear more from Ian Reid in Audible soon
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- Emma
- 14-06-2020
confusing
it had an interesting lead up to a very confusing end. it will take another listen or read to make sense. But I don't think i will.
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