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This is certainly a book of unanswered questions, and most frustratingly of all, the protagonist, Paul, doesn't seem interested in what any of the answers are.

As the title refers to the land of Nod, the novel takes a look at the after effects of a global event which makes people unable to sleep. Vancouver is the place for Paul to try and think his way out of the problems he faces after the event has occurred. Every now and again a novel comes along that is so Completely original and captivating that it makes you gasp. I persevered, hoping for some explanation of the whole sleep thing that forms the setup of the novel, or of what exactly the golden towers seen by the Sleepers are. I often go sleep reluctantly; it forces me to stop the fun activity I'm doing, usually reading or binge watching a series.

Sul gioco delle parole e l'utilizzo di termini desueti o ridondanti, a tratti usati con compiacimento dall'autore, che la narrazione perde un po' di spinta. This is a brave and original way of writing this kind of novel, but its ultimate consequence is that the story raises questions which it chooses not to answer, and provokes (in me, at least) a sense of vague dissatisfaction and of ends left flapping raggedly in the breeze as the story draws to its close. Barnes tries to cram this book so full of Memorable, Quoteable Lines that absolutely nothing sticks. That’s the premise of Adrian Barnes’ debut novel Nod: A world in which suddenly nobody sleeps anymore. It has science in the background, obviously, because the collapse uses the findings of sleep deprivation experiments: the human body can endure four weeks of sleep deprivation before death.

The Awakened are zombie-like insomniacs shuffling around the city, wanting sleep, slowly going crazy and dying, or killing themselves just to fall into eternal darkness. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The book ends with a poignant footnote/essay where the author shares that around the same time that the book came out he was diagnosed with a terminal and swift-acting cancer of the brain. He makes an offhand reference to Star Wars (which literally couldn't be more wrong and is surprisingly insulting to Leia, the only prominent woman in the original trilogy).Hala uyuyabilen şanslı azınlık artık o kadar şanslı saymıyor kendini; insanlar gruplara ayrılmak, ölmek öldürmek için, hiçbir fırsatı kaçırmıyor. Ci sono poi i bambini che dormono ancora, una piccola comunità apparentemente separata e insensibile davanti alla situazione in cui versano gli adulti. The sleepers as they are known, Paul the central character is a sleeper, one who can still sleep and sadly sees the world decend into violence and collapse. No explanation is offered, and all that is just used as setup for that tired old Humans are the Real Monsters tripe that's been done to death by this point.

We get a little slice of the epidemic, one man's tale as he tries to survive for a month, the estimated time it will take the sleepless to die. Again, being only three chapters in, I don’t know if this is a recurring theme of the book where Paul gets something from popular culture so glaringly wrong that we can witness the depth of his own detachment from society as a whole. Gaps in Paul’s general understanding of what’s going on, as he tries to navigate a Vancouver made monstrous by an other-worldly insomnia plague, are fine with me.His style was a breath of fresh air after some of the self-published rubbish available on Kindle these days. Well, inevitably I go to four loves of mine: Lewis Carroll, Harlan Ellison, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan. It was stupid, the story went absolutely NOWHERE, so I was left feeling not only annoyed and offended, but like the entire thing was a waste of time and the paper it was printed on.



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