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Original Title: | Sleepless |
ISBN: | 0345501136 (ISBN13: 9780345501134) |
Edition Language: | English |
Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2010) |
Charlie Huston
Hardcover | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 3.66 | 2393 Users | 302 Reviews
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From bestselling author Charlie Huston comes a novel about the fears that find us all during dark times and the courage and sacrifice that can save us in the face of unimaginable odds. Gripping, unnerving, exhilarating, and haunting, Sleepless is well worth staying up for.What former philosophy student Parker Hass wanted was a better world. A world both just and safe for his wife and infant daughter. So he joined the LAPD and tried to make it that way. But the world changed. Struck by waves of chaos carried in on a tide of insomnia. A plague of sleeplessness.
Park can sleep, but he is wide awake. And as much as he wishes he was dreaming, his eyes are open. He has no choice but to see it all. That's his job. Working undercover as a drug dealer in a Los Angeles ruled in equal parts by martial law and insurgency, he's tasked with cutting off illegal trade in Dreamer, the only drug that can give the infected what they most crave: sleep.
After a year of lost leads and false trails, Park stumbles into the perilous shadows cast by the pharmaceuticals giant behind Dreamer. Somewhere in those shadows, at the nexus of disease and drugs and money, a secret is hiding. Drawn into the inner circle of a tech guru with a warped agenda and a special use for the sleepless themselves, Park thinks he knows what that secret might be.
To know for certain, he will have to go deeper into the restless world. His wife has become sleepless, and their daughter may soon share the same fate. For them, he will risk what they need most from him: his belief that justice
must be served. Unknown to him, his choice ties all of their futures to the singularly deadly nature of an aging mercenary who stalks Park.
The deeper Park stumbles through the dark, the more he is convinced that it is obscuring the real world. Bring enough light and the shadows will retreat. Bring enough light and everyone will see themselves again. Bring enough light and he will find his way to the safe corner, the harbor he's promised his family. Whatever the cost to himself.
It is July 2010.
The future is coming.
Open your eyes.
List Of Books Sleepless
Title | : | Sleepless |
Author | : | Charlie Huston |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
Published | : | January 12th 2010 by Ballantine Books (first published 2010) |
Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Mystery. Dystopia. Thriller. Horror |
Rating Of Books Sleepless
Ratings: 3.66 From 2393 Users | 302 ReviewsEvaluate Of Books Sleepless
I have good news, and I have better news. The good news is that Charlie Huston has finally started using quotation marks instead of the annoying and confusing dashes before dialogue. Granted, he still isnt using he said or she asked, but progress is progress.The better news is that Huston has written a masterpiece.Its been fascinating to read along as pure talent has evolved to extreme skill from the Hank Thompson and Joe Pitt stories to the point where Huston started delivering theseI think there's every possibility that I've been spoiled by my previous experience with Charlie Huston's books. Prior to picking up Sleepless I'd read all the Joe Pitt Casebooks, the absolutely excellent The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death and the first Hank Thompson book, Caught Stealing. Actually, to be absolutely clear I should say that with the exception of two of the Joe Pitt books, I listened to all of them as audio books because Charlie Huston is a master of dialogue and that
I dont even know how to explain how I feel about this book. It is absolutely the worst book Ive read in 2012.After reading the first chapter I was hooked but then it got so confusing that I had no idea what was happening. First of all its confusing if you change a first person narration to a third-person narration but I can deal with that. It gets more confusing if you find out that the first person narration does not fit together (meaning that all of a sudden the character is somewhere else,
This is a futuristic crime thriller depicting an America that is under martial law and in the midst of a pandemic: an incurable form of insomnia is afflicting -at the very least- ten percent of the world's population."Sleeplessness" as it is called leads to an inevitable and- after months of suffering- painful death.This novel is set in Los Angeles and alternates between third and first person narratives.The third person narrative details the personal and professional life of Parker Haas -an
This should have been right up my alley. I really enjoy Huston's writing and story approach, and I have a fondness for end-of-the-world stories, but this was a resounding 'meh.' Usually, Huston is skilled at piquing my interest in characters lacking in likable traits or heroic qualities. I just could not develop any concern for the main character, Parker Hass (Parker. Totally generic name), who seems like a full-on Heroic-But-Loner-Boy-Scout, which you would think would be even more likable than
This is a fantastic book. Funny thing is, when I started this one last year after summer, I just could not get through the intro, this is a book which does not read easily (for me). It is also a book that needs your full attention, with all the happenings and details. Now, I had time and started again, knowing this had to be good. Well.. it is. Brilliant story, apocalyptic, but also, a story about love. It keeps you hanging on til the end and the story is so cleverly built, it is never boring
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