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sireads_'s review against another edition
3.0
i understand the hype around this and i bought into it. whether it lived up to my expectations is something i’m still not sure about.
julie_sadoublep's review against another edition
3.0
I full on hated the first half and then was very moved by the second half. I feel very conflicted by this book.
kinda_like_shaft's review against another edition
4.0
I couldn't help think that this was like an updated Catcher in the Rye. It moved quickly and I really liked it.
delaneywoods's review against another edition
3.0
actual rating: 2.5. this book was basically exactly what i expected but i was still hoping i would like it more than i did. it was pretty boring and i didn’t feel like the ending had a big enough pay off
dyl_pickles's review against another edition
5.0
This book talks a lot about everything yet the main character sleeps for a year.
Her plan works. She sleeps for a year and comes out a new person. We meet her friends, her lover, and her past, all while she dozes off on the couch watching all of Whoopi Goldberg’s movies on VCR.
In a way, I’m jealous, if I have to be honest. Not of how she completes her goal, but the fact she did in the first place. If I could sleep for a year and come out a new person without many problems, I’d do it in a heart beat.
My favorite part of the book is the end, which leaves us questioning what’s next for this new version of the main character? Especially her reemergence and its timing.
Her plan works. She sleeps for a year and comes out a new person. We meet her friends, her lover, and her past, all while she dozes off on the couch watching all of Whoopi Goldberg’s movies on VCR.
In a way, I’m jealous, if I have to be honest. Not of how she completes her goal, but the fact she did in the first place. If I could sleep for a year and come out a new person without many problems, I’d do it in a heart beat.
My favorite part of the book is the end, which leaves us questioning what’s next for this new version of the main character? Especially her reemergence and its timing.
lizthereader27's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
ebats's review against another edition
3.0
hard to rate this one, what an interesting book! i love an insufferable interior mind, and i thought it was so smart we never escaped it. i felt claustrophobic reading this sometimes, the project/concept of this was just well executed, so bravo on that. but that's not the same as liking it, and i am not sure i really did.
culuriel's review against another edition
5.0
I did not expect to like this book as much as I did. The nameless narrator is shallow, selfish and evades dealing with life and grief to the extreme. She hates her closest friend, and desperately seeks love from someone she also despises. And when her grief from the early loss of her parents is unbearable, she retreats into whatever sleep she can force by depressants.
Her psychiatrist is a quack who is so full of her own delusions she never suspects the narrator’s manipulations, and their interactions are the most entertaining part of the novel. The narrator is certain that uninterrupted sleep from June 2000 until June 2001 will heal her, and it seems as stupid as any of the woo Dr. Tuttle spouts.
But the narrator figures out how to achieve it, with the help of an avant-garde artist looking for his next controversial art piece. By the time this part of the novel comes, I marveled at her sheer stubbornness and willingness to spit in the eye of strangers’ disapproval. I loved that she unequivocally hated her existence but found a way to avoid self-destruction.
Her psychiatrist is a quack who is so full of her own delusions she never suspects the narrator’s manipulations, and their interactions are the most entertaining part of the novel. The narrator is certain that uninterrupted sleep from June 2000 until June 2001 will heal her, and it seems as stupid as any of the woo Dr. Tuttle spouts.
But the narrator figures out how to achieve it, with the help of an avant-garde artist looking for his next controversial art piece. By the time this part of the novel comes, I marveled at her sheer stubbornness and willingness to spit in the eye of strangers’ disapproval. I loved that she unequivocally hated her existence but found a way to avoid self-destruction.