Ieva Andriuskeviciene's Reviews > The House of Sleep

4.7*
“ ‘A disease, Terry - the most widespread and life-curtailing disease of all! Forget cancer, forget multiple sclerosis, forget AIDS. If you spend eight hours a day in bed, then sleep is shortening your life by a third! That’s equivalent of dying at the age of fifty- and it’s happening to all of us. This is more than just a disease: this is a plague! And none of us is immune, you realise.”
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Very clever and twisted book about group of people who met in their student years in the eighties and now in after a decade they are drawn back together by problems with their sleep.
Terry is insomniac, obsessed with old movies (there is a lot about them!)
Sarah is narcoleptic and can’t separate what is real life and what is a dream. Robert is just lost and all his problems started because of Sarah. And there is a doctor who manages the clinic and thinks that we are wasting our life by sleeping.
All storyline is changing and unpredictable. I don’t think I have ever read anything like this. Very good humour, some weird sex and an interesting study of sleep. Structure is amazing. I am not sure about the end as it left me hanging. Overall, more experience than just a read
Perfect book to read during your sleepless nights!