The Coma

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Summary: Boring!
Review: This book was boring!! The ending was dumb and frankly I thought the story was pointless. Basically it's about a man who falls into a coma and he thinks that he is awake then leaves the hospital. When he gets home and falls asleep, he wakes up to find all these wierd things happening to him. These illusions or daydreams that he has makes him realize that he never woke up from the coma, so he tries different things to wake himself up like strolling down memory lane. This story builds you up with suspense but at the end you will be VERY disappointed. I would not waste my money on this book.

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Summary: A wait most worth it
Review: This is a wonderful, readable short novel. I won't give plot summation (you can scroll up for that), but suffice to say that this is, even though a quick read, a thoroughly engaging story and a worthy follow-up to the Tesseract. if you are hesitant of spending perhaps 20 bucks on a book you will most likely digest in one day, fret not. The story stays with you and, trust this guy, you'll be picking it up again within the month.

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Summary: Alex Garland has lost my trust
Review: You know when you stumble upon an author that has written an outstanding novel and you can't wait to read his next. And the next effort is so different, yet outstanding as well? You would expect his third effort to be just as compelling.

Well Garland has officially lost my trust, his "The Coma" was that disappointing.

The Beach and Tesseract were such outstanding efforts, I could not wait to pick up The Coma. I did notice that it was only about 200 pages long, which made me a bit suspicious. And I saw almost immediately that the chapters were a page, a page and a half, sometimes only a paragraph long.

But the writing lacked everything that his first two novels were so full of, and that was the most disappointing part.

Almost couldn't finish it. I think it was either a vehicle for his brother's childish illustrations, or he was under a deadline from his publisher to finish out his contracted third book.

Real real disappointing from a big fan.

I will cast a wary eye on his next effort. He will need a huge rebound to gain my trust back.



Rating:
Summary: THE COMA
Review: YOU'LL HAVE TO RE-READ THE LAST CHAPTERS JUST TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE BOOK... I'M ON THE FENCE ON THIS ONE...