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| Title | : | The Coma |
| Author | : | Alex Garland |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | July 7th 2005 by Faber & Faber (first published June 17th 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Horror. Contemporary. Thriller. Fantasy. Novels |
Alex Garland
Paperback | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 3.36 | 8041 Users | 411 Reviews
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After being attacked on the Underground, Carl awakens from a coma to a life that seems strange and unfamiliar. He arrives at his friends' house without knowing how he got there. Nor do they. He seems to be having an affair with his secretary which is exciting, but unlikely. Further unsettled by leaps in logic and time, Carl wonders if he's actually reacting to the outside world, or if he's terribly mistaken. So begins a psychological adventure that stretches the boundaries of conciousness.
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| Original Title: | The Coma |
| ISBN: | 0571223109 (ISBN13: 9780571223107) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.36 From 8041 Users | 411 ReviewsCrit Regarding Books The Coma
I should really have read this when it came out 12 years back and I was into Garland's The Beach and The Tesseract, as this is much better than either of those. Quick enough to read entirely in a book shop over lunch break (drawn in by the eerie woodcuts that illustrate it), but the spare elegance conveys quite a lot of philosophic weight to mull over. A haunting suggestion of the loneliness of any single, inescapably solitary consciousness, in any real or imagined reality, assuming theIt must be difficult for Alex Garland to see the majority of praise for this book pertain to "how fast of a read it was." This point is even emblazoned right across the back of the jacket, just in case people fail to notice how slim the book is. What I wished Garland was being praised for is his really masterful ability to write sparsely, with complete lack of jazz-fingers or indulging the impulse to elaborate a subject to death. Hell, give him cudos for being an English novelist who abstains
As modern writers go, this one has the career I covet & an incredible repertoire--he has been compared to Graham Greene. Well, this is the WRITER OF MY GENERATION (or Gen x, whatev), and therefore, it's Mr. Greene who should consider himself fortunate. (Forgive the hyperbole...)For a book that requires no bookmark, this one is a must. Like a riveting film, one of the best ones out there that you probably never got to see in the theater and sweetens the day considerably when you do sit down
The Coma was on the bargain table at Chapters when it caught my eye. Alex Garland, I said to myself. Isn't that the guy who wrote The Beach? Yes, he is.I read The Beach long before it was made into a movie with the unspeakable Leonardo DiCaprio (which I've never seen), and I was fascinated. I recognized the society Garland creates in The Beach in so many ways, it was scary and uncomfortable and utterly fascinating. I haven't yet have the guts to read The Beach again, but it left a real
this book was the perfect length for one queens-manhattan/manhattan-queens subway ride on a sunday shopping spree. sibilant, no?im more taken with that fact than the actual content of the book. i enjoyed it, but marabou stork nightmares is way, way better.
Fast-paced, could finish in one go. Love the plot-- excellent writing depicting a dreamland journey of comatose. Bizarre but interesting, weird and unusual. Playing with logic, an unknown parallel and one's subconcious mind. Think it was brilliant. How Carl realised he was in the state of coma but still 'flying' all over settling the unsettled or perhaps some needs. Love the part when he met the cabby again and went back to his old house. Short chapters with simple illustrations. A journey to
I sat down and read this all in one sitting this morning.Because of the situation (narrator in a coma, struggling to get out), it was pretty well impossible to get a good grip on who the narrator is/what is life is about... but in that it's easy to lose yourself to this novel & imagine yourself in that situation. He's searching for things within his memory that will spark him, shake him free of this coma, and he struggles with his inability to remember the details, the lyrics, these type of
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