What happens when the world ends in a bang not a whimper and the addled remnant arrive on the scene with their prison features and force a protagonist into a role he's not even sure isn't a dream he's inhabiting? Evenson happens, baby. Evenson.

wow.that should be my whole review. untainted by pictures and whatever nonsense i usually spew. this book is clean and taut and deserves a review untouched by nonsense and gimmickry.and i will try to give this book what it deserves.wow.this is my second book by evenson, and the second to take place in a ruined, barren wasteland. his spare prose lends itself so well to this landscape. but "spare" doesn't mean there isn't anything going on here. how can a book this short, with its ripped-from-the-...

Noir character edge, apocalyptic tone, Marx Brothers meets Beckett (if they are at all different) dialogue, comic but sinister duos, stark prose, identity and reality in doubt, and probing moral questions are all present and mark Immobility as both a representative and a thoroughly accomplished example of what one our best writers, Brian Evenson, does. This is his take on the post-apocalyptic genre and it is lighter in language and tone then his previous venture (the beautiful and singular Dark

Listened 5/29/14 - 6/2/145 Stars - Highly Recommended / The Next Best (Audio)Book - A kickass audiobook if ever there was one / Get yer Post Apoc fix on now, Biatches.6 1/2 hours audio downloadPublisher: AudioGoReleased: 2012Audiobooks are strange animals. The story could be well written, the plot could be interesting, the characters engaging, but if the voice of the narrator grates on me; if their pacing is off; if they overly, painfully enunciate, the darn thing won't stand a chance. For me, e...

Immobility. Yeah, I'm suffering it right now. My feelings are all over the place. I can't even handle what I just read. That ending! I'm done. It's over. I will never be the same again. Brian Evenson, you talented writer, you have thrown me outside with no hazard suit. I'm dead.Josef Horkai had been in storage, but he's about to get a nasty wake up call. Rasmus and his community of dying humans need Horkai's help in retrieving a mystery package that was stolen from them. The mission is simple. T...

"A sensation of coming back to life, only not quite that: half life maybe."- Brian Evenson, ImmobilityMy first exposure to Brian Evenson was a stack of his short stories (Altmann's Tongue: Stories and a Novella) at the BYU bookstore my sophomore year that was there and then, just as suddenly, wasn't there. I had recently returned from my mission and Evenson was a professor at BYU who that year got into trouble because his stories were too violent, weird, funky for the placid BYU English departme...

this is 'good horror' to me.. futureistic... dystopia'ish...just absolutely utterly mindfuckingly numbishly wow..I have a confession my Goodreads.com friends...This is actually the second book I have read by Evenson. For whatever reason/major oversight. I have never reviewed/rated Last DaysI will review it tommorow.. and I give you fair warning. It will absolutely fanboyish, but omg for all the right reasons... so fair warning....PS READ THIS BOOK BRAD

Last year I read Brian Evenson's Last Days, which was one of the best novels I read that year and earned its place on my favorites shelf. That weird story of Kline, a private investigator who gets involved with a peculiar religious cult and steps through the looking glass impressed me greatly, and made me want to read everything that he has written.The origin of this book is particularly interesting. Back in 2010 a website called The Hypothetical Library, which created covers and blurbs for book...

Why isn’t this book more popular? Why?! At the time of writing this review there are 210 community reviews and 1,020 ratings (3.71 average rating). Whuuuuuut?! That’s IT?! Immobility was a fantastic dystopian book, with a hugely original premise. Crazy! This is conversational fodder for days! I found the entire store very intriguing and hard to put down but I also found it on the depressing side - not that this took away from the book. And the ending is going to say with me awhile. I’d absolutel...

IMMOBILITY was one heck of a trippy story.A man wakes up after being frozen for 30 years and discovers that while he slept the world as he knew it, ended. I don't know what to make of this, but I loved the narrator and I enjoyed the story very much. It was dark and original. I need to read more of Brian Evenson.

Where were you all my life, Brian Evenson?It's going to seem to you guys like I don't read critically whatsoever, but I swear I'm just going through a patch of really great books. IMMOBILITY is a post-apocalyptic messianic allegory. It's brilliant because it doesn't attract attention to itself since the protagonist is the messiah in question. It's emotionally and intellectually brutal and manages to distance himself from the torrents of post-apocalyptic fiction out there by making the ragtag bun...

I spotted this book via goodreads. I really like the recommendations they do here on the basis of what you're reading. I think I was reading 'Sleepless', when this book was recommended. A book which will probably never be in the bookstores in Europe, so got it online, being curious by the story outline I got here. A weird apocalyptic story, cool out-of-the-box story too. How can a writer make something like this up...you wonder It's different from a lot of other books in the same genre, of cours...

I did a big, fat review of this book at the Los Angeles Review of Books. Go check it out:"IN 2010 A CLEVER BLOG titled the Imaginary Library posted covers, jacket copy, and blurbs for books that did not actually exist. The April 5, 2010 entry was for a bleak, post-apocalyptic detective novel, Immobility by Brian Evenson. In an odd case of art imitating art then becoming art, the description of the fake book caught the eye of an editor at Tor books, who then encouraged Evenson to write the real b...

A few years back I went a reading at Powell's in Portland, one of the authors who read was Brian Evenson promoting his bizarro horror crime noir hybrid The Last Days. The reading won me over and I bought the book. I loved that short and gritty novel. I considered it one of the best reads I had in 2009. Evenson has done it again because Immobility is without a doubt of one my favorite reads of 2013.Evenson is an author who writes mostly horror but has mostly escaped the genre ghetto in fact he is...

4.5 StarsImmobility by Brian Evenson is a fantastic piece of post apocalyptic fiction. This is my second read of an Evenson novel so I already considered myself a fan. After finishing this book, I am going to quickly grab up more of his works.I have to say that as I started reading this book I was blown away with how much I felt that this would be a perfect story in Hugh Howey's Wool series, a post apocalyptic series that should not be missed. Immobility would fit perfectly into that world and

These things happen, and then we say we didn't mean it, that it was an accident, that it will never happen again. Never again we say: God will not allow it. We say no to torture, and then we find a reason to torture in the name of democracy. We say no to sixty-six thousand dead in a single bomb blast over a defenseless foreign city, and then we do it again, a hundred thousand this time. We say no to eight million dead in camps, and then we do it again, twelve million dead in gulags. Humans ar

"Immobility" is a profound metaphysical parable thinly disguised in a Tarkovksi's "Stalker"-like setting. One would be tempted to call it post-Apocalyptic. although the Apocalypse, in its true sense of "revelation" hasn't occurred yet. Through the main character Horkai, a mutant used by a human religious community for their own purpose, Evenson leads us on a quest for God, meaning and truth. Like a futuristic Candide, Horkai travels and encounters strange characters that only seem to confirm the...

(4.5) "We're a curse, a blight," said Rykte. First we gave everything names and then we invented hatred. And then we made the mistake of domesticating animals -- almost as big a mistake as that of discovering fire. It's only one step from there to slavery, and once you think of humans as animals, we become a disposable commodity, war a commonplace. Add in a dominant religion that preaches end of the world and holy books that have been used to justify atrocity after atrocity, and you're onl

Every once in a while you stumble across a book which surpasses all your expectations. 'Immobility' is one such book. I mean, here you have, the much used trope of a post-apocalyptic scenario (although, I must admit that PA is one of my favorite sub-genres and I would read even a mediocre book if it's classified as PA fiction) with your usual wastelands, radiation and the always present hunger for food and all other things which are common in a book of such type. But the “commonness” ends there....

I don’t write reviews. I found this gem by accident and didn’t jump on it initially because I was nervous that it’d be a post-modern crapfest (that was Blindness, but I digress). Luckily I was wrong. Immobility is an interesting post-apocalypse sci-fi dystopia, that manages to steer clear of the usual tropes and doesn’t resort to pastiche. I’m SO tired of reboots, remakes and writers leeching off others’ successes of the past. Evenson clearly has his inspiration, though he doesn’t lose his origi...