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In the latest novel by the bestselling author of the Generation X thriller The Beach, a young man who fell into a coma after being assaulted on the London Underground tries to piece his life back together. Shuttling in dreamlike fashion between his hospital bed and a hazy succession of places—his apartment, friends' houses, a record shop, a bookshop, his childhood home, a shrine—he sifts through conflicting memories of his past and unanswerable questions about his present. The novel reaches for Kafkaesque ambiguity—is the narrator awake or in a dream? did he ever come out of the coma? is there a difference between ourselves and our fantasies?—but Garland's parable feels more like an exercise than a true exploration, constricted by its sluggish pace and plodding prose ("I stood. I raised a hand. I said, 'Hey' "). Forty woodblock illustrations by the author's father, Sir Nicholas Garland, a political cartoonist and artist, are handsome but function as little more than filler. By the end of the story, with the narrator unable to tell the difference between reality and fantasy, he finally decides, "None of it was real. I didn't care." Chances are good the reader will feel the same way.
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Slight but entertaining, this Mobius strip of a novel should fuel the cult following that Garland cultivated among twentysomethings with The Beach (1996) and the screenplay for 28 Days Later, which imagined an England overrun by zombies. Like that film, this book follows a man who awakens from a coma inside a London hospital. But in this case, the dawning horrors he faces might all be inside his head. What we know, or think we know, is that the man's name is Carl. One night, on the last train home, he stands to intervene when a gang of young toughs accosts a fellow passenger. The next thing Carl knows, he is in the hospital trying to swim back to consciousness. From there, the spare, sly story takes several Kafkaesque turns, its foreboding mood heightened by the woodblock illustrations of Garland's father. We watch, admiring, as Carl dopes out his states of consciousness and logically navigates a course back toward normal. But just when the facts start coming into focus, the view blurs up again, and we cannot help but smile. Frank Sennett
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While trying to help a woman who is being attacked on a subway, Carl is beaten to a bloody pulp and left for dead. A long while later, he wakes up from the coma the attack left him in and returns home. But he soon realizes that nothing is as it used to be. Things have changed, things are wrong, things are just unexplainable. Time seems to be moving faster, Carl finds himself moving from one place to another without remembering having done so. And how about those invisible bleeding wounds on his body?
Garland weaves his narrative just like a dream. One second we're standing in one place, the next we're in a total different setting. Things are disjointed and they don't always make sense for the reader. Until, that is, something crucial is revealed to us that changes the way we see or understand the events taking place in the narrative.
Told in the first person over very short chapters, with interesting visual images to guide us through the story, The Coma is a story that is both imaginary and frighteningly real. As always, Garland lets his imagination run wild to create a one-of-a-kind trip to the human psyche.
Then again, the book left me craving for more. I wanted more out of Carl, wanted to learn more from the characters and the situations they were in. Over the course of two very short chapters, Garland tells us a bit about Carl's childhood, but not enough to eradicate my curiosity. Some sections could have been fleshed out a bit more.Read more ›
Alex Garland wrote one of my favourite books of all time: The Beach. While The Beach was a pretty big success (if you've seen the movie you haven't really experienced The Beach, they're very different from one another) his second book wasn't as big but was equally entertaining and different. With the release of 28 Days Later Garland delved into some interesting territory already explored by other filmmakers but with Danny Boyle they created something incredibly exciting and new in the genre. This introduction now brings me to my thoughts on Garland's third novel (more of a novella than an actual book) and fourth writing project. I liked the fact that this was a tightly written and eloquently short read but I was slightly dismayed at the predictability of the proceedings (some surprises but in general I felt I had read it before). The language that Garland uses is crisp and creates a totally visual experience. Although his father included several interesting woodcarvings to accompany each chapter they seem a little excessive and unnecessary since the language is so clear. This is foremost a writer's experiment and it is the most different, in terms of 'defined story', of his four previous works. While I found the book creepy at first it began to take on a comedic tone and is so short that I was able to finish it in little more than an hour and some (give or take, I don't use a stopwatch). I found this book to be interesting and a worthwhile investment since many of the thoughts, ideas, and descriptions stay with you long after you put the book down. For fans of Garland's work this is a must have for your collection to see where Garland is moving as an artist but for casual readers it may just be a fun little ride (this review is based on a first reading only and the novella needs to be read a second time).
Without giving too much away, as you might deduce from the title of the book, the story focuses on a coma patient and all the thoughts and ideas that come with being in a coma. I'm not sure what I was expecting to be honest with you, but whatever it was, this wasn't it.
What I wanted was more of a story. What I got was more of an unofficial biography of the person lying in the coma. Which I suppose is what Garland was aiming for when he wrote the book. Trouble is, I was expecting a story. Only I didn't get one.
So is it fair for me to dislike this book when really, it is my expectations that are out of whack with what the story actually delivered? No, probably not. But then again, life isn't fair. Sorry Alex. Better luck next time.
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Bad. His writing style is very plain and boring, and the novel has literally NO substance. Don't waste your time on this. I'm glad that I only paid 1.50 or something for this. Read morePublished on Dec 14 2007 by Benjamin Anderson
Okay, its short - but so are many great works of literature. Garland writes so well, his atmospheric prose and original imagery really helped to hook me and he admirably wove and... Read morePublished on July 24 2006 by CAS
I can't argue that the story was not gripping, but I read it in an hour............
Ater such a long wait since The Tesseract I expected more.
I was a big fan of Mr. Garland's debut novel "The Beach," less so of "The Tesseract," and while I was entertained by his latest effort, I can't say it compares... Read morePublished on July 7 2004 by J. F Malysiak
I picked up a copy of Alex Garland's "The Coma" hoping for the same fast-paced storytelling that grabbed me in his first novel, "The Beach" with its successive uncertainty and... Read morePublished on June 23 2004 by K. Lin
I picked up a copy of Alex Garland's "The Coma" hoping for the same fast-paced storytelling that grabbed me in his first novel, "The Beach" with its successive uncertainty and... Read morePublished on June 23 2004 by K. Lin
If you ever get mad at yourself for not being able to remember your dreams, you will definitly relate to this book. Read morePublished on June 22 2004 by Taylor G.


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Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Cultureby Alison Griffiths
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The ethical and ideological implications of cross-cultural image-making continue to stir debate among anthropologists, film scholars, and museum professionals. This innovative book focuses on the contested origins of ethnographic film from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, vividly depicting the dynamic visual culture of the period as it collided with the emerging discipline of anthropology and the new technology of motion pictures. Featuring more than 100 illustrations, the book examines museums of natural history, world´s fairs, scientific and popular photography, and the early filmmaking efforts of anthropologists and commercial producers to investigate how cinema came to assume the role of mediator of cultural difference at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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"Do as you're told," Mr. Faherty replied, and he set Shad to sort a huge pile of rusty screws and bolts.
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That night the tense looks on his parents' faces, the fact that they too were staying inside, allowed Shad to guess what was happening. The smugglers were coming. And when the smugglers came to Lucker's Island, the island belonged to them.
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Gently, his mother touched his hand. "Shhh," she said. "Be patient."
Sitting in the dark, Shad tried to stay calm, wondering what was happening outside. He wished he could see the smuggling for himself.
He could picture the island's dock. Just a few paces from their front door it jutted fifty yards into the bay. And he could almost see the fishing fleet, what was left of it, a dozen small, motorized boats. They rubbed against the dock pilings, making scratching sounds that sang of idle emptiness. Other boats, hauled ashore, lay abandoned, sinking on the beaches, drowning beneath the sand. There were plenty of fish in the sea, but no one on land had money to buy them.
About four months before, the smugglers had first come to Lucker's Island, bringing in cases of rum, whisky, gin, slipping past the Coast Guard pickets. It was risky. Very risky. Smugglers who got caught went to jail. Shad's father had warned him that the smugglers carried guns.
But smuggling was worth the risks. Because of Prohibition, liquor was outlawed. Get liquor to the mainland and you could make real money. And in 1932, because of the Depression, lots of people, like Shad's father, had no money at all.
After the light went out, the first sound to break the silence came from the channel bell. Shad couldn't tell whether the bell had been blown by a freshening wind or jostled by the sweeping swell of a passing boat. It rang only once. Now the silence seemed harder for Shad to bear than it had before.
No longer able to keep still, he got up, scraping his chair.
"Sit down!" his father barked.
Ignoring him, Shad went to the window, pressed his forehead against the cool glass, and looked out. At the far end of the dock a single lamp was lit. In the damp blanket of the night the lamp's glow looked like a ripe, fuzzy peach.
The channel bell rang again. This time its one loud clang was followed by two short strokes. It wasn't a natural sound. Took a hand to ring it that way.
Shad wondered whose hand.
Suddenly the dock light went off. All became shadow.
Shad couldn't stand it anymore. He went to the door and pulled it open, rattling the doorknob. His father, springing up, tried to grab him, but Shad moved too quickly. As he went out he shut the door behind him.
Along the street all of the twelve houses were dark.
Clouds, reaching in with fat fingers, blotted out the stars. Only a thin white edge of moon creased the darkness. The air reeked of sea. The rain was coming closer. All Shad could hear was the licking of the water. Yet he knew that someone was out there, that the smugglers were coming in.
Afraid his parents would come after him, Shad moved through the darkness away from the house, across the space that was the street. His bare feet, shoeless since the weather had turned warm, hardly felt the rock chips or shell shards that lay upon the ground.
He came up against a large wagon, once used for hauling fish. Eyes riveted on the dock, Shad climbed the wagon, using the wheel spokes as rungs.
Gradually, he was able to make out the shape of a boat. Motor cut off, it was gently coasting, slipping through the water, coming closer.
There was a muffled thump as the boat struck the dock. Wooden posts creaked as they shifted with the impact. A surge of waves washed against the shore.


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Name the Mystery State In the spirit of the classic game show Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, kids can solve individual state mysteries by piecing together the clues in the illustrations and description for each worksheet.
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Name the Mystery State: Beehive State The name of my state comes from the Native American "Ute" tribe, and I was the 45th state to enter the United States.
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Land of Enchantment Some people call me the Land of Enchantment.
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Mount Rushmore State Get your child excited about his next geography lesson by adding in this fun coloring sheet.
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Actor Michael Caine
Actor Michael Caine
Michael Caine has made more than 70 films in his 30-year career, playing everything from the cockney lothario in Alfie to the super-suave con man in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. He won an Oscar for his work in Hannah and Her Sisters. He says that while an actor's eyes are his best asset, his voice is a close second. This interview originally aired on Nov. 17, 1992.
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