I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain ReidMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
“Both fictions and memories are recalled and retold. They're both forms of stories. Stories are the way we learn. Stories are how we understand each other.”
When I saw the title in the first sentence of this book, I thought about break-ups. The narrator was unnamed, and she was Jake's girlfriend. She's insightful and inquisitive, and very much keen into details. She takes note of stories about her partner and their road trip to the parent's house; some little anecdotes of her childhood and her recent experiences from a random stalker. But as you progress, there is something more than these little stories. They became a summation of an event, highlighting the very title: I'm thinking of ending things
It was a random tweet that made me engage into reading this book, plus the hype I am receiving from the film hipsters who used to rave about Kaufman and his works. The tweet is a spoiler alert (view spoiler). This may not killed my overall reading experience, but somehow reading the ending became a little disappointment. It wasn't suspenseful. The last chapter was a coda, or maybe a meta. However, it did not kill the creepy feels in some of the reading experiences I have had between the chapters.
I haven't read Jose Saramago's Blindness; some say this gave off the same vibes with Iain Reid's debut. As for the film, I cannot wait to watch it, and juxtapose the director's visual expression with the write's context cues of unfolding the story. Knowing Kaufman, this movie will not disappoint. (view spoiler)
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