Jason Pargin, author
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Jeff_Arthur :
... How's the audiobook?
2026-05-17 21:02:49
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Trate :
What’s the semi colon count?
2026-05-17 20:54:26
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holstonjoe :
Jason, my fave creator, single-handedly saved this book for my reading list, for what I otherwise thought to be a gimmicky, hard to read vanity piece.
2026-06-04 14:56:51
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slide :
I thought you said it was a period piece
2026-05-18 07:35:02
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tegu101010 :
Reading a sample, this style of writing hits my adhd with the same gentleness as a hurricane making landfall, grabs a hold of my brain and holding it hostage, effecting a feeling as if I’m holding my breath but in my mind, which keeps waiting for when it can breathe, though that moment never arrives, thus leaving me wondering at what point in this literary endurance race will I collapse, unless my hyper focus kicks in to fuel this journey, all the while my anxiety asking more and more profoundly existential questions, like whether the novel has found a security hole and has shut off the self preservation code in my brain, for now I think “am I trapped? Can I stop at a comma without betraying the author?”, and would stopping somehow destroy all the previous context I’m holding, though surely that can’t be the case, or perhaps there’s a period at the end of the book waiting to grant me relief, or perhaps not, could the author be so bold,
2026-05-17 21:50:52
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david LastName :
i did actually scoff when i heard the one sentence thing lol.
2026-05-17 21:43:11
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S :
Cormac McCarthy wrote in a similar style and is considered one of the great American authors of our time.
2026-05-17 22:20:23
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Sam :
Honestly the amount of people calling this book “gimmicky” or “pretentious” are bumming me out. Weird writing comes out all the time, why can’t a writer do something different with the styling of their book? And why does an author taking an artistic choice automatically make the book a gimmick and pretentious? I just don’t get that criticism.
2026-05-18 11:12:11
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TurtleJudge :
He-just-kept-talking-in-one-looong-incredibly-unbroken-sentence-moving-from-topic-to-topic-so-that-no-one-had-a-chance-to-interrupt-it-was-really-quite-hypnotic.
2026-05-18 12:51:03
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Adam :
Congrats to the author, but it will be a cold day in hell before I read a book without proper sentence structure or correct grammar. I leaned my lesson after No Country for Old Men.
2026-05-19 01:50:25
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PoppyPeople :
I put a hold for the audiobook on Libby. It should available early next decade.
2026-05-17 22:23:24
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lalopalooza64 :
so when I write without punctuation I'm "surprisingly dumb for someone in college" but when "Daniel Kraus" does it he wins a freaking pulitzer....
2026-05-18 06:36:22
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ladyunicornfarmer :
I want to love horror but the problem is it scares me
2026-05-17 23:23:04
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Nicholas Friedman :
I finished the book a few months ago and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. It’s phenomenal.
2026-05-17 22:06:20
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Porter Kramer :
I love seeing professionals gush over other professionals work. Always just an extra layer of depth that they're able to add to the breakdown
2026-05-17 23:35:25
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MJR Schneider :
Didn’t think I’d see a horror novel win a Pulitzer before a horror movie won an Oscar. I guess it must really be just that good.
2026-05-19 02:57:46
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UrbanWolf :
I'll just never read a book that has one sentence.
2026-06-03 06:44:04
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K! :
The style choices absolutely enhances the feeling of shell shock. Gimmicks are for attention. This contributes to the story
2026-05-23 20:34:18
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Gabriel Bergoc :
José Saramago did this years ago on the book "blindness". it's genius.
2026-05-18 11:34:48
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stepthenhen :
Really didn’t like the gimmick
2026-05-17 21:30:45
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cutoffsparty :
All the “…how’s the audiobook” comments are such an indictment of where we are
2026-05-18 00:14:23
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matth0305 :
1917 in book form? obviously a different story but I mean the backdrop and concept with 1917 being one continous shot and the book being one continuous sentence
2026-05-18 06:02:23
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BJ Knisley :
I've had it "on hold" at the library for a long while, but I'm excited to read it when everyone else finishes it, haha
2026-05-18 03:13:43
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Jacob Macjones :
I'm on my second read at the moment. I don't think I appreciated it as much the first time but I can definitely see the author's fever dream style from Whale Fall. I'm so furiously jealous of how unbelievably talented he is.
2026-05-18 07:25:13
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Jessi West :
Um, what kind of scary is this? 😬. I’m so intrigued but also don’t watch horror movies.
2026-05-18 01:14:13
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