However, each occupant of hell has one task, and that is to search the stacks of books until they find the one that tells their life story in full. And you live for near eternity inside a library. You are once again 25 and wake every morning pain free. It’s not too bad at first: Meals are provided. In this philosophical novella, Soren, a lifelong Mormon, dies and learns that he has chosen the wrong god and has been sent to a Zoroastrian hell. That’s right, this book about the afterlife, written by a Mormon ecologist, deserves a place firmly on the existentialism shelf of your library. By the time we realize how truly horrible it is, we’ve learned there are far worse things to be found in hell. In fact, Peck is at first able to sell this premise to the reader in such a way that it appears to be a pretty light sentence.
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