A Short Stay in Hell
As a faithful Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he'll be reunited with his loved ones 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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Best book I’ve read this year so far. Quite well done I liked the absurdism aspects and the comments on human nature and action. Well done book.
"Finite does not mean much if you can't tell any practical difference between it and infinite."
- Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
Peck does not write beautifully, and that is okay. He teeters between the psychological torment of infinity and the hopeful grasp of the finite. It was a quick and impactful read.
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