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Original Title:	The House of Sleep
ISBN:	0375700889 (ISBN13: 9780375700880)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Sarah, Robert, Terry, Gregory
Setting:	London, England,1996(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	James Tiptree Jr. Award Nominee for Longlist (1998), Prix Médicis Etranger (1998)

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Like a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The Big Chill, Jonathan Coe's new novel follows four students who knew each other in college in the eighties. Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events. Robert has his life changed forever by the misunderstandings that arise from her condition. Terry spends his wakeful nights fueling his obsession with movies. And an increasingly unstable doctor, Gregory, sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which he must eradicate.

But after ten years of fretful slumber and dreams gone bad, the four reunite in their college town to confront their disorders. In a Gothic cliffside manor being used as a clinic for sleep disorders, they discover that neither love, nor lunacy, nor obsession ever rests.

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Title	:	The House of Sleep
Author	:	Jonathan Coe
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Vintage Contemporaries Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 337 pages
Published	:	May 1999 by Vintage (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. European Literature. British Literature

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I wanted to really like this novel, because I felt like it did a lot of things very well. The story was intriguing, the characters had the potential to be very interesting, all of that good stuff. But for some reason, while I was entertained by the story, I didn't really develop any kind of emotional attachment to the characters. I never felt like I really knew them, and it felt kind of like all the characters were playing pieces that the author moved around at will. I'm curious if other people

Sometimes I think there must be something broken inside my head, for often as I read books which are labeled "funny", "hilarious", "silly" I find myself rarely cracking a smile during my reading. In fact, I am often so distracted by the idea that it is labeled as such that I am downright disturbed that anyone would find humor in the work. This is one of those books.Maybe to some sleep disorders are funny, maybe narcoleptics say and do funny things (losing ones job due to narcolepsy must be the

Jonathan Coe, as he has demonstrated many times, is an agile and humane writer, and this book is perfectly readable and fitfully affecting. However, it's not the complex masterpiece it's touted as being. What has been described as an intricate structure is, in reality, a protracted series of coincidences that carries on right to the end. The central plot twist can be seen coming a mile away, and the four or five main characters' lives intersect in so many ways that you'd think they were the only

I have always thought of myself of a stingy awarder of a 5 star rating; alas, I have not been so stingy of late. Jonathan Coe's The House of Sleep is my 6th 5 star rating of 2013. However, being privileged to have so many good friends with such great tastes in literature sure helps stack the bookcase with good reads. The House of Sleep is a favorite of my friend Aaron. Although he and I do not agree upon the greatness of every book, we definitely agree on the greatness of Coe's House of Sleep.

I remember, there were some books that felt as if they were made of the substance of dreams, slow, hazy and beautiful or scary. The House of Sleep is not one of them. It is at the same time much more mundane and more surreal.The plot centers, and as we later learn revolves around a pretty small group of people who were students sharing accomodation and a building, in which they all lived. The building is in fact The House of Sleep and it is so in more ways than you can imagine. The students

"The House of Sleep" provides a unique reading experience, that's for sure. Its very structure resembles sleep, as the chapters are named after the stages one goes through when sleeping. Hence, reading it, you actually feel like sinking into a restless sleep full of dreams. Coe has made a hell of a job with the characters. Each has their own path to follow, their own issues, fears and complications. Yet they affect each other's lives in extraordinary manners. One thing they all have in common

A clever, fascinatingly plotted novel, House of Sleep had all the ingredients of a potentially great novel. Well-drawn, intriguing characters, at times vividly descriptive I did enjoy it.However, I did feel kept at a distance. The multiple viewpoint third person narrative gave it a cinematic quality (apt in many ways, I know) that -- and this is more to do with personal preference -- didn't allow me all the way "in". I have a well-established dislike of novels that switch viewpoint mid-scene, I