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Title: Deep Sleep by Charles Wilson ISBN: 0-312-26696-0 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Deep Sleep
Comment: Very average. Wilson pads out a standard thriller--featuring a lot of people in small clusters running panic-stricken through the Louisiana swamps not far from a lucid-dream therapy enclave where a woman was murdered--with some vague references to voodoo and psychology. There are two sinister figures wandering about loose in the wilderness, both held up as the most likely suspects in what starts to look like a killing spree, when two more corpses come to light. Sinister fellow number one: Boudron the jibbering, one-armed loner, whose parents turn up dead at their isolated swamp-abode. Sinister fellow number two: big Womack, who flees The Sleep Disorders Institute (specializing in allowing you to control dreams and nightmares, to the point of indulging in disturbing night-time fantasies) as soon as a body turns up; obviously he has something to hide.
The cops and various assorteds who spend the entire book on the respective trails of these edgy fellas are fairly well-characterized, especially Deputy Mark, with his tragic past. But the suspects and villains are mere ciphers, uninteresting--somehow on the periphery of their own nefarious machinations. The book's just too busy with pursuits and familiar action scenes. Meanwhile, the voodoo angle is unfulfilled, as is the use of lucid dream manipulation. Those elements don't contribute much to anything, aren't used to make a better story.
Not satisfying. Just an easy read, with few chills.
Rating: 4
Summary: A well crafted read.
Comment: Chief Deputy Sheriff Mark French was a detective with the New Orleans Police Department until three people were killed because of his error. Now he's back in law enforcement, trying to battle against the migraines and the memories. When he is called to the South Louisiana Sleep Disorders Institute to investigate a murder, he finds a lot of things that don't add up. This Institute promises people that they can dream their fantasies, any fantasy they want. The director is Dr. Sasha Dominique, who is notorious in her own right. The victim of the murder is a young woman who was visiting the clinic to live out fantasies of her dead lover. Almost as soon as he begins investigating one murder, two others crop up to confuse the case. The murders of the parents of a pathetic, crippled man who lives like a wild man in the swamp, change the dynamics and make Mark realize he has to look at a broader picture. The picture keeps getting muddied. Everyone has something to hide, it seems, and it's not until it's almost too late that Mark realizes he's been close to the answer all along. Charles Wilson's imagination seems to have no bounds. His latest thriller from St. Martin's Press Deep Sleep ventures into one of the most mysterious arenas of human beings, dreams. Deep Sleep is an edge-of-your-seat page turner with driving action and non-stop suspense.
Rating: 2
Summary: Wilson Pens Real Yawner
Comment: This standard whodunit, set in the swamps of Louisiana, doesn't stack up to the author's previous work, "Extinct." This bare-bones plot with few surprises, gets lost in a lot of voodoo mumbo-jumbo, with its story populated by cartoonish zombies. Some real bad juju in this snoozer.
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Title: When First We Deceive by Charles Wilson ISBN: 0843944013 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: Nightwatcher by Charles Wilson ISBN: 0843942754 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Extinct by Charles Wilson ISBN: 0312962126 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Peter Benchley's Creature by Peter Benchley ISBN: 0312965737 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Reliquary by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child ISBN: 0812542835 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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