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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. Read more
Publisher : Strange Violin Editions
Publication date : March 20, 2012
Edition : Firsttion ed.
Language : English
Print length : 108 pages
ISBN-10 : 098374842X
ISBN-13 : 27
Item Weight : 6.1 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.27 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #212 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2 in Metaphysical & Visionary Fiction (Books) #14 in American Literature (Books) #16 in Horror Literature & Fiction
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I really loved this short story. It had me thinking about it long after I finished it.
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2026 by Kate
Format: Kindle
I had heard a lot of hype and good things about this book. The story gave a deep view of hell as a personal torment shaped by your own life and your own mind. I found it interesting that there were no people of color in this version of hell. I would not have called this book horror. It felt more like an intellectual and detailed take on what hell could be. The descriptions of constant falling were heavy and really stuck with me, falling for days and falling for what felt like light years. Those ideas made me stop and think. The book also raised questions about God and about why things happen, which are questions many of us have, even as believers.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2026 by Amazon Customer
Format: Kindle
Hands down, this is, by far, one of the best novellas I’ve ever read. The worldbuilding, the character arcs, the questions it raises…all phenomenal. ASSIH is what it endeavors to be: a story about a man’s sty in Hell. And what a Hell it is. Imagine a massive library with no Dewey Decimal System. Imagine a massive pit in the center of it all. Imagine a fruitless search. Imagine a soul whose questions are never answered. This is just a taste of what this story truly is. Read it. Just read it.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2026 by Paul Leporino
Format: Kindle
SPOILERS... ... ... ... ... Having just finished this book, I enjoyed the read but I'm also thoroughly annoyed. So I'm going to rant a bit in this review. You've been warned. The beginning of the book drew me in. There was a touch of mystery, a bit of dark humor...I thought this was going places. The main character hasn't done anything wrong per se, aside from believing in the wrong thing, so how bad could this hell be? We get to hell and it's a big library. There's a sign saying to learn from the experience. I thought, okay, this will be a journey of education... ...and that's pretty much as far as we go there. The guy meets some people, talks to them, has some sex, eats food. The rest of the unimaginable number of years covered in the book, nothing really happens. (A googol of light years just falling at 120mph. Each light year would take 5.5 million years at that rate, so that would be on the order of 5 with 106 zeroes years! Also: Our universe's width is only an estimated 92 billion light years, so this is like 10^97 more than that! And we're to believe that the narrator would be even remotely sane, or with it enough to narrate after that?) It's kind of a lazy story, and the writing is choppy at best. Lots of odd setup with no real payload. For example, we're told early on that bad things will happen to people who don't treat others well. And yet, there are roving gangs of rapists. Another thing that annoyed me was that supposedly even a group of calculus PhDs were unable to figure out how many books were in the library. I'm no mathematician but I was able to estimate the number within a few orders of magnitude in about 3 minutes, mentally. (Not bragging, it's easy math - it was just yet another of the book's stupid setups.) And while we're on the topic...if such a place really did exist, why would it have huge parallel hallways instead of using more of a cube shape? And also, if a place existed that had more books than there are electrons in our universe, would air work the same way? Would gravity work the same way? Time? And so the book ends -- and nothing has happened, and nothing will happen for another googol years or something. But what's the point? Why would this massive hell exist, just to store a smallish number of people who are never going to escape? Does the Zoroastrian version of god really care to punish people to that degree? We learn virtually nothing of the religion in the book, which was weird. Shouldn't this have been a journey of spiritual enlightenment? Isn't that the whole point of a hell? (According to Wikipedia, for Zoroastrianism, that's exactly the point.) I kept waiting for the twist: “I realize that my original life had no meaning”, and boom -- there would suddenly appear a totally blank book. Into the slot it would go! Or whatever. Some point to all of this. That's enough of that. Why am I giving it three stars? Something was compelling about the first two thirds of the book. And it's a super, super quick read. I did enjoy a lot of it. It's thought-provoking, I'll give it that. So there you have it. A thoroughly annoying but blessedly short book, with some bright points and a lot of low points...about a ridiculously long amount of time.
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Format: Paperback
A very interesting book. Short and sweet. The story is heartbreaking and disturbing. Recommended!
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2026 by Jeff Bihlman
Format: Kindle
For such a short story, it packs a lot of detail. And emotion. it's rare for me to give a book five stars nowadays. nevertheless, I found that this book stayed with me through out the week that I read it. I enjoyed the take on Jorge Luis Borges Short Story The Library Of Babel. the Mad Max style look at a hellscape of never ending books is a very interesting setting. As I said in my video review, I did find the author continuously mentioning that this hell only had white people in it, And lacked diversity kind of pulled me out of the story. i have not read other reviews for this so I am hoping to see why the author may have done this. it's the only thing that came to my mind was that he was trying to check a box being a white author himself, and fearing that it was backlash for writing people of color in a non favorable way. or he was just trying to portray that white people are the only people in hell. lol I honestly dont know. But all of these questions kind of makes it a good book. Because I have questions. I really enjoyed the stories are of love and loss In this. the overall questions of heaven and hell and the afterlife really shined plot ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ characters ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ horror ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ fun ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ writing ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ im at a 4.5⭐️ on this one.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2026 by Josh (Working Man Reads)
Format: Paperback
This is one of my favorites. It may be short, but it sure does make you think about life differently. You will realize how limited your time on earth is, and how much longer you will spend in the afterlife.
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