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Sergei Burbank
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Steven L. Peck
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An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he'll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies. Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life.
In this haunting existential novella, author, philosopher, and ecologist Steven L. Peck explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.
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For the protagonist, hell is a bigger-than-the-known-universe library containing every possible book (including those whose contents are just random characters, i.e. the vast majority). And the only way out, according to a posted notice, is to find the book containing one’s own life story. Hell does operate according to a few rules, which can’t be broken. There are food dispensers, which give out any meal requested. Non-carried objects return to their place at the end of each day. People who die are returned to life.
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Beautifully unsettling questions. I’m glad I spotted this one in an audible sale.
Beautifully unsettling
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Narrated well and a clever alternative take on the concept of hell.
An extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeemely ironic title
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One of my favorites
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Good short story
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A Most Significant Book
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The most incredible story of hell I've heard of!
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Interesting
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The mind boggling perspective of eternity and WHAT THAT ACTUALLY MEANS to us, as we live such fractions of time in our know history, really was appalling.... pleasantly though!
Infinity gets a perspective
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A Short Stay in Hell, a beautiful piece by Mormon Steven L. Peck, grapples with these questions with extreme earnestness which honestly thaws the heart of skeptic like me who usually has little time for theological musings. A devout Mormon is condemned to a Zoroastarian purgatory, tasked with the deceptively simple task of finding the story of his life in an infinite library.
The dread of contemplating what an eternity for a consciousness would be like is both horrifying and moving. I would recommend this to any fan of existential horror, and also to anyone who wants to seriously, critically examine their religious faith or non-faith. Sergei Burbank's measured, occasionally quavering everyman voice is the perfect narrator for this book.
Infinity Explored
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exceptional.
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