I'm Thinking of Ending Things

2.5ish. Interesting dive into a vortexy, relatable anxiety mind, good length and pacing and story arc.

Spoilers:
—-
—-
Fight club has been an all time fav of mine since high school and it's just really really really hard to match palahniuk at his own game without some serious extremely unique brilliance. Throw in get out and split and it felt like this book couldn't quite match what movies can do for this type of story. And the general vibe of a woman-dates-man-and-gaslights-herself-out-of-taking-seriously-all-red-flags-plus-twist, I'd just have liked something more out of the book. Or at least some more nods towards the book's ancestors if it decided to lean into full amalgam. Reading in a vaccuum though I bet would be really fun. I'm sure I'll watch the movie at some point.