This is an extra copy so I'm putting into "bizarre bookbox".

I pick this up because the illustration looks interesting and it looks like a quick read.

From Amazon.com:
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.

I need one more book to put into the Medicine Chest Bookbox, and this seems to be the fastest read among all eligible titles.

I enjoy it more than I expected, the imagery and the rumination is very interesting.

This is now heading into the Medicine Chest Bookbox.

Returned to me in the Medicine Chest Book Box.

This is definitely a NMCOT - I see why sweetsangria put it in the "bizarre bookbox." The short, choppy sentences and terse, unemotional style just put me right off.

However, the illustrations by Nicholas Garland were very impressive, especially the ones printed in reverse on both sides of a page. Does anybody know if Nicholas and Alex are related in some way?

Placed in princess-peapod's Already Been Crossed Bookbox.

Taking this book from princess-peapod's Spring ABC Bookbox. This looks like an interesting book!

My Review: This was a bit weird and interesting read. It seemed like something that my psych professors would give us to read in college. It was a quick read, hard to put down, because I wondered what was real and what was fantasy. Curiousity got the better of me.

I actually read this one awhile ago and forgot to journal it.

Putting into Bookstogive's General Literature VBB.

Sending this book to angelface46 from: Bookstogive's General Literature VBB. Enjoy!

just came today - thank you