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The Dreamers
by Karen Thompson Walker
Meh.
Very, very long and drawn out story of how this "sleeping sickness" started taking over a town. Just that town. Nowhere else.
Literally here is the entire book summed up into about 5 sentences:
- People are starting to suddenly fall asleep and not wake up. Alive, but can't be woken.
- More and more people are suddenly falling asleep and cannot be woken.
- Even more people.
- Then suddenly, in the last few chapters (after you've read an entire book full of "and then they fell asleep...and then more fell asleep...and then more") they start waking up.
- The end.
Oh, well I guess there's the idea that they were apparently having dreams during their entire sleep, and some people's dreams were things that were to happen in the future... But... not exactly the same as their dream. So the dream really wasn't a future prediction at all. It just happened to be coincidentally similar?
Either way, the book just...ends. With one of the newly awoken wondering if her dream was real or not or if she is, in fact, living a dream now that she is awake? And that's it. Pretty lame ending. I kept waiting for something "good" to happen. And I just knew that with the amazing imagery and beautiful writing style this author has, this book was going to end with a bang. Nope. Utterly disappointed.
Very, very long and drawn out story of how this "sleeping sickness" started taking over a town. Just that town. Nowhere else.
Literally here is the entire book summed up into about 5 sentences:
- People are starting to suddenly fall asleep and not wake up. Alive, but can't be woken.
- More and more people are suddenly falling asleep and cannot be woken.
- Even more people.
- Then suddenly, in the last few chapters (after you've read an entire book full of "and then they fell asleep...and then more fell asleep...and then more") they start waking up.
- The end.
Oh, well I guess there's the idea that they were apparently having dreams during their entire sleep, and some people's dreams were things that were to happen in the future... But... not exactly the same as their dream. So the dream really wasn't a future prediction at all. It just happened to be coincidentally similar?
Either way, the book just...ends. With one of the newly awoken wondering if her dream was real or not or if she is, in fact, living a dream now that she is awake? And that's it. Pretty lame ending. I kept waiting for something "good" to happen. And I just knew that with the amazing imagery and beautiful writing style this author has, this book was going to end with a bang. Nope. Utterly disappointed.