Iain Reid

The novel spans decades as the characters try to live fruitful lives despite the cruel dragon who marks every year with violence and death.

For a quicker hit of horror, there's I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Ian Reid, a psychological thriller about a couple driving out to meet the woman's parents on their farm.

You might recognize the title from the Netflix film adaptation, but I'd say I vastly prefer the original novel.

It's full of scares simply because it's so ominous and tense.

The novel spans decades as the characters try to live fruitful lives despite the cruel dragon who marks every year with violence and death.

For a quicker hit of horror, there's I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Ian Reid, a psychological thriller about a couple driving out to meet the woman's parents on their farm.

You might recognize the title from the Netflix film adaptation, but I'd say I vastly prefer the original novel.

It's full of scares simply because it's so ominous and tense.

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The other thing I thought about is, and I actually have done this before I think Ian Reid is an author that I had done this with.

Sometimes you can, on Instagram, you can do a search for a particular book or a particular author.

It'll come up.

Thank you.

Um, yeah, I'm Thinking of Ending Things is adapted from a novel, uh, by the same, of the same name, uh, written by I- Iann Reid, Ian Reid, whatever.

Ian Reid.

Um, and it's th- this, uh, linear story of a woman going to visit her boyfriend's parents, and along the way, things start to, like, slowly shift.

Like, uh, the book is told in a stream of conscious fashion, um, and Kaufman's kind of perfect for that.

Um, Charlie Kaufman has that kind of power within him.

Uh, and I know that he was tapped specifically to adapt this.

That was kind of who, uh, Ian Reid had in, in mind for the, the film version of it.

I was actually reading a book.

It was I'm Thinking About Ending Things by Iain Reid.

Oh, yeah.

Oh my gosh.

... and how it's trying to present it.

And I'm Thinking of Ending Things is a fantastic adaptation of the, the book by Ian Reid.

Um, but like, Synecdoche, New York is this whole other unique beast that it's amazing.

It's only two hours long-

It relies on surrealism, psychological disorientation, and a pervasive sense of impending doom rather than relying on a monster jumping out of a closet.

And the poster child for this style of literary dread on the list is Ian Reid's I'm Thinking of Ending Things 241 pages

The core plot sounds almost boringly normal.

A young woman is on a winter road trip with her new boyfriend.