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Sleepless

Charlie Huston

Why we're reading this: In Huston's impressive, challenging thriller set in a postapocalyptic Los Angeles, a devastating illness …more
[close] In Huston's impressive, challenging thriller set in a postapocalyptic Los Angeles, a devastating illness renders the afflicted unable to sleep. In about a year, those with SLP (as the sleepless illness is known) deteriorate and die. Amid the city's rampant violence and lawlessness, LAPD cop Parker Park Haas tries to persuade himself that a future exists for his newborn daughter.

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May 23, 2011 Annet rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: dark, crime, apocalyptic, weird

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 an ...more

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Jan 27, 2012 Kelly Roll rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook-finished

I'll state up front that i didn't always follow everything going on - even with the help of a gamer spouse, I found the concepts of virtual and real economies confusing. What I can say is that the near future L.A. Huston gives us is so vivid I could absolutely believe that, indeed, this is the way the world will end. Unlike most visions of the apocalypse, individuals in this society do not valiantly fight their circumstances. Ten percent of the population is dying from a prion disease that cause ...more

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Aug 31, 2010 Susan Dickson rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I really wanted to like this, but I had issues with this edition and the lack of editing. Grammar and spelling errors threw me out of the tale too easily for me to stay engaged enough to finish it.

The world is excellent, the premise creepy and plausible and I even loved the tension, the sense of desperation and the details that were precise and well placed. Perhaps I will finish it when I have more time to sit and concentrate on it.

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