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I'm Thinking of Ending Things Paperback – Jan. 1 2016

by Iain Reid (Author)

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AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016

"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, award-winning author of Mysterious Skin and We Disappear).

I'm thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It's always there. Always.

Jake once said, "Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought."

And here's what I'm thinking: I don't want to be here.

In this "dark and compelling...unputdownable" (Booklist, starred review) literary thriller, debut novelist Iain Reid explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning consciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the limitations of solitude. Reminiscent of Jose Saramago's early work, Michel Faber's cult classic Under the Skin, and Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk about Kevin, I'm Thinking of Ending Things is an edgy, haunting debut. Tense, gripping, and atmospheric, this novel "packs a big psychological punch with a twisty story line and an ending that will leave readers breathless" (Library Journal, starred review).

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"I'm Thinking of Ending Things is an ingeniously twisted nightmare road trip through the fragile psyches of two young lovers. My kind of fun!"--Charlie Kaufman, Academy Award winning writer and executive producer of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

"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, author of The Blue Fox, From the Mouth of the Whale, and The Whispering Muse

"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, author of Mysterious Skin and We Disappear

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, author of Cataract City and The Deep"

I m Thinking of Ending Things is an utterly compelling modern Gothic that stakes its claim in the inner precincts of horror. Reid builds tension the way Edgar Allen Poe builds brick walls in his basement. --Wayne Grady, author of Emancipation Day"

An addictive metaphysical investigation into the nature of identity, one which seduces and horrifies in equal measure. Reid masterfully explores the perversity of loneliness and somehow also creates a very entertaining thriller. I found myself yelling at the characters to put their feet on the pedal and drive. --Heather O'Neill, author of Lullabies for Little Criminals and Daydreams of Angels"

Smart, dangerous and spooky as hell. Iain Reid takes you on a harrowing road trip that keeps you riveted until the final destination. --Brian Francis, author of Fruit and Natural Order"

"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, author of Cataract City and The Deep

"I'm Thinking of Ending Things is an utterly compelling modern Gothic that stakes its claim in the inner precincts of horror. Reid builds tension the way Edgar Allen Poe builds brick walls in his basement."--Wayne Grady, author of Emancipation Day

"An addictive metaphysical investigation into the nature of identity, one which seduces and horrifies in equal measure. Reid masterfully explores the perversity of loneliness and somehow also creates a very entertaining thriller. I found myself yelling at the characters to put their feet on the pedal and drive."--Heather O'Neill, author of Lullabies for Little Criminals and Daydreams of Angels

"Smart, dangerous and spooky as hell. Iain Reid takes you on a harrowing road trip that keeps you riveted until the final destination."--Brian Francis, author of Fruit and Natural Order

-I'm Thinking of Ending Things is an ingeniously twisted nightmare road trip through the fragile psyches of two young lovers. My kind of fun!---Charlie Kaufman, Academy Award winning writer and executive producer of -Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-

-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, author of The Blue Fox, From the Mouth of the Whale, and The Whispering Muse

-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, author of Mysterious Skin and We Disappear

-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, author of Cataract City and The Deep

-I'm Thinking of Ending Things is an utterly compelling modern Gothic that stakes its claim in the inner precincts of horror. Reid builds tension the way Edgar Allen Poe builds brick walls in his basement.---Wayne Grady, author of Emancipation Day

-An addictive metaphysical investigation into the nature of identity, one which seduces and horrifies in equal measure. Reid masterfully explores the perversity of loneliness and somehow also creates a very entertaining thriller. I found myself yelling at the characters to put their feet on the pedal and drive.---Heather O'Neill, author of Lullabies for Little Criminals and Daydreams of Angels

-Smart, dangerous and spooky as hell. Iain Reid takes you on a harrowing road trip that keeps you riveted until the final destination.---Brian Francis, author of Fruit and Natural Order --This text refers to an alternate paperback edition.

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I’m Thinking of Ending Things
I’m thinking of ending things.

Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It dominates. There’s not much I can do about it. Trust me. It doesn’t go away. It’s there whether I like it or not. It’s there when I eat. When I go to bed. It’s there when I sleep. It’s there when I wake up. It’s always there. Always.

I haven’t been thinking about it for long. The idea is new. But it feels old at the same time. When did it start? What if this thought wasn’t conceived by me but planted in my mind, predeveloped? Is an unspoken idea unoriginal? Maybe I’ve actually known all along. Maybe this is how it was always going to end.

Jake once said, “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.”

You can’t fake a thought. And this is what I’m thinking.

It worries me. It really does. Maybe I should have known how it was going to end for us. Maybe the end was written right from the beginning. --This text refers to an alternate paperback edition.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Text Publishing (Jan. 1 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1911231049
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1911231042
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 200 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 23.29 x 1.6 x 15.49 cm

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Arjen van der Wal

Reviewed in Canada on November 30, 2018

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My second time reading this book, after a number of months and it still drew me into the story.
It’s tense and psychologically insightful. The author builds an ongoing sense of mystery, of not being completely sure of what is happening.

Questions of identity, the disintegration of personality and death actually make a beautiful book. You wonder, why did this have to happen? But it had to be this way, there was no escape really, no other possibility.

It manages to maintain its sense of disorientation, of psychological rather than physical terror. Something remaining hidden but waiting to crop up, that can no longer be avoided.

It sits in the mind. Or to borrow the words of the author, “it stays, it sticks, it lingers”. And that’s what the book does, while you’re reading it and even after you’re finished. Very worthwhile.

2 people found this helpful

Unsettling and strange

Reviewed in Canada on July 6, 2023

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Reading this felt as if my brain was skipping like a cd player does. It was strange and vaguely uncomfortable the entire way through.

I am confused.

But I liked it.

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It was “ok”

Reviewed in Canada on October 26, 2020

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Nice easy read, kept me engaged for the most part but didn’t really ending, I understood it but didn’t really enjoy it.

Finished in one sitting

Reviewed in Canada on June 27, 2020

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Once I started this book, I could not put it down. I read the entire thing in one sitting. I expect you will, too. It's less of a thriller than a psychological horror, in my opinion; reading it, I felt an increasing unease not unlike that felt when watching slow-burn horror movies like Mother! and Midsommar. There is also some philosophical conversation in the first half of the book that can feel "heavy" -- if you were expecting a light page-turner, I mean. The ending was spectacular and not at all what I had expected when I started the book. I recommended it to a friend and he read it the very next day. I will read this again. I am thrilled that there will be a film adaptation -- I can't wait to see it.

2 people found this helpful

Reviewed in Canada on July 31, 2020

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I picked this up because Charlie Kaufman said good things and chose to direct the upcoming film. Charlie Kaufman is a very good writer, so I figured it was bound to be good. Not so much.

This novel’s only redeeming quality is its length: the time wasted was relatively brief. The prose was reminiscent of R.L. Stine’s YA novels, with a peppering of some undergraduate musings after taking an Intro To Philosophy class. It gets tedious fast. The material within is poorly developed and could have made for a mediocre short story, instead of a bad novel.

Because the prose is elliptical, the reader plods along the plotless story, vapid insights and stilted dialogue hoping: maybe it’s intentional, maybe the end will justify it? Hey, Charlie Kaufman liked it, right, can’t be as bad as it seems?

Then the ending comes and you know you just wasted a couple of hours of your time. The big reveal is what you feared it would be. It’s the ending to most books and films of this kind: the ending bad “psychological” thrillers have been employing with diminishing returns for decades. The biggest cliche “plot twist” in the genre. Groan.

Any budding novelists out there that care to make something new, rather than rehashing a cheap trope, have at it, please. If this book can sell a boatload of copies and be adapted into a film, then bar for that sort of thing seems pretty low.

14 people found this helpful

Reviewed in Canada on May 6, 2018

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The book was fantastic, my copy was thrashed on arrival.

Reviewed in Canada on January 1, 2022

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Was a pretty good book. Film was pretty good too. Might recommend to those in search of something quick to read that offers up what it’s like to be in a relationship with an antagonizing meta-voice that won’t leave you alone. Not sure if I’d read his other works but foe has been calling to me

Reviewed in Canada on March 7, 2022

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This left me feeling incredibly uncomfortable in the best possible way. I'm not sure I can fully convey the sense of dread that just crept higher and higher up my back until I felt eyes on the back of my head at every turn. What a wonderful and thrilling story line. Highly recommend!!!

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Ana Luisa Lima

Perfeito para leitores que gostam de quebra-cabeças

Reviewed in Brazil on June 12, 2023

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Começo dizendo que esse livro não vai ser do gosto de muitos. Ele é escrito no estilo de fluxo de consciência, e a narrativa foca nas conversas entre os personagens e memórias intercaladas para avançar, a localização é limitada a poucos espaços fechados e atmosfera é bastante claustrofóbica.
O livro possui uma boa mistura de mistério com uma pitada de terror psicológico, e como o próprio autor descreve nas páginas: o que importa é apenas uma pergunta. O interesse está em encontar as pistas que os personagens vão deixando entre suas falas, para assim montar o quebra-cabeça das memórias e acontecimentos narrados e chegar à resposta final junto à personagem.
Acredito que esses sejam os principais pontos para ter em mente antes de iniciar a leitura, e eu recomendo que, assim como eu, ela seja feita sem haver lido muito da sinopse, e de preferência em uma única sentada. No mais, é importante atentar para os gatilhos da história.

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Perfectas condiciones.

Reviewed in Mexico on March 8, 2023

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5 estrellas porque el libro llegó en perfectas condiciones y en el tiempo estimado.
En cuanto al contenido; no me gustó, es muy depresivo, pero no me atrevería a calificar el libro en base a ello porque es una opinión personal, que dice más de mi que de el producto.

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Lisa

Impression Amazon

Reviewed in France on January 25, 2024

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Attention impression faire par Amazon, couverture douce qui retiens le gras, papier épais.
Pour ce qui est du livre, histoire intrigante et totalement addictive.

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Delightfully dark

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 2, 2024

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Emotionally macabre with a sinister twist. Refreshing to read something original. Plays with the thoughts to such an extent I could not put it down. More, please....

Kindle Customer

Mind-blowing

Reviewed in India on May 4, 2023

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One of the best book I've read in recent times. Incredibly Clever and the ending is amazing. I would recommend others to read it too

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