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No Sleep Till Wonderland (Mark Genevich #2)
by
Paul Tremblay (Goodreads Author)
Mark Genevich, narcoleptic detective, is caught between friends and a police investigation in this wickedly riveting PI novel with a twist—a follow-up to The Little Sleep
Mark Genevich is stuck in a rut: his narcolepsy isn’t improving, his private-detective business is barely scraping by, and his landlord mother is forcing him to attend group therapy sessions. Desperate fo...more
Mark Genevich is stuck in a rut: his narcolepsy isn’t improving, his private-detective business is barely scraping by, and his landlord mother is forcing him to attend group therapy sessions. Desperate fo...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
February 2nd 2010
by St. Martin's Griffin
(first published 2010)
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Modernizing the archetypal hardboiled detective story, Paul Tremblay mixes surrealism with traditional noir in his novel No Sleep till Wonderland. A conceptual twist on the genre amplifies conventional crime fiction and explores the mysterious power of the human mind.
Tremblay first introduced browbeaten South Boston private investigator Mark Genevich in 2009’s The Little Sleep. Mark is barely scraping by after a botched case and an unrelenting struggle wit...more
Modernizing the archetypal hardboiled detective story, Paul Tremblay mixes surrealism with traditional noir in his novel No Sleep till Wonderland. A conceptual twist on the genre amplifies conventional crime fiction and explores the mysterious power of the human mind.
Tremblay first introduced browbeaten South Boston private investigator Mark Genevich in 2009’s The Little Sleep. Mark is barely scraping by after a botched case and an unrelenting struggle wit...more
In this follow up book to THE LITTLE SLEEP we revisit Mark Genevich the narcoleptic P.I. After coupling his landlord mother forcing him to go into therapy, his P.I. business not meeting his expectations and his ongoing battle with his narcolepsy Mark decides to go on a two day bender. Coming out of the bender Mark finds himself a suspect in a arson/murder investigation. The first book was unique because it threw a twist into the typical P.I. genre read. Although this follow up still has the sarc...more
I have a soft spot for broken personalities and a narcoleptic PI is robably as broken as you can get without overdoing it. Tremblay does a great job of portraying believable characters and that is a hell of a job if you work within a genre that it as ripe with clichè as the noir crime novel. The plot is good and keeps you guessing but the real appeal of the book comes from the witty dialogue of the PI with the other characters and most of all with himself. He is struggling constantly with social...more
I started out really enjoying this book, and I don't think it mattered much that I haven't yet read The Little Sleep: A Novel. I was intrigued by the covering of narcolepsy, the wandering in and out of consciousness, and the narration somewhere a cross between Hammett and Palahniuk. Points for plot. Along the way though I got tired of the excessive simile and metaphor, the quirky little quips that became more hey-I'm-clever-for-the-sake-of-being-clever than actually being witty, and the distinct...more
A decent story and good use of language. Two things distracted me and forced me to give it a lower rating.
1. The narrator is a smart-ass and a comparison freak. WAY too many metaphors and similes, over-used and sometimes they lasted for multiple sentences. One that sticks out: "We creeped up I street like a couple of creeps." Yeah...
2. I spent the first 100 pages trying to figure out if the two main characters were romantically interested in one-another. Then, when one of them expressed some in...more
1. The narrator is a smart-ass and a comparison freak. WAY too many metaphors and similes, over-used and sometimes they lasted for multiple sentences. One that sticks out: "We creeped up I street like a couple of creeps." Yeah...
2. I spent the first 100 pages trying to figure out if the two main characters were romantically interested in one-another. Then, when one of them expressed some in...more
This is a great book. And I say that upfront because I'm about to dump all over it.
This book is incredibly pretentious. From the title alluding to Raymond Chandler's classic The Big Sleep and Lewis Carroll's Alice and Wonderland, to the rampant metaphors throughout the text, and even to the reviews on the back attempting to portray the book as serious literature rather than a simple mystery, No Sleep till Wonderland doesn't stop acting holier than thou but it never quite achieves the status to...more
This book is incredibly pretentious. From the title alluding to Raymond Chandler's classic The Big Sleep and Lewis Carroll's Alice and Wonderland, to the rampant metaphors throughout the text, and even to the reviews on the back attempting to portray the book as serious literature rather than a simple mystery, No Sleep till Wonderland doesn't stop acting holier than thou but it never quite achieves the status to...more
You're writing a book. You want to sell it. Can't sell it on literary merit because there really isn't any? No problem. Invent a character quirk that you can work into the novel to lure the publishing companies in. Give them something they can put on the back of the jacket to catch the reader and force them to buy the book if for no other reason than to see how this inane premise will work out.
This book? Give your character narcolepsy and then have him talk about it ad nauseum to fill space in y...more
This book? Give your character narcolepsy and then have him talk about it ad nauseum to fill space in y...more
What do you do when you're a narcoleptic detective and a friend of yours takes you on a two-day bender, and then asks you for a favour.
Pretty dark but quite funny at times, though the "hard-boiled" detective wit is a bit forced at times.
Weirdly has some remnants of Jonathan Lethem for me, but not sure why.
Pretty dark but quite funny at times, though the "hard-boiled" detective wit is a bit forced at times.
Weirdly has some remnants of Jonathan Lethem for me, but not sure why.
I really enjoy the main character - a narcoleptic private investigator from South Boston. The local references were great and the dialogue was pitch perfect. I liked this better than the first one - in his first book the narcolepsy was almost too dominant, here it was blended in much more smoothly.
Blows up the classic noir style like a balloon - right to the point of popping. Heavy on the metaphor, like the big guy you don't want to tussle with sitting on your legs for 200 pages.
While I enjoyed the first book by Tremblay featuring narcoleptic PI Mark Genevich, I couldn't make it through this one. The references to popular culture are so thick that I could barely make it through. I persevered about halfway through but it didn't get any better so I finally gave it up since I have lots of good books in my TBR pile. I was disappointed in this one, but it led me to wonder what, exactly, an author can do if they create a main character who has no hope.
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I rarely will put a book down and not finish it but I would rather pull my own eyelashes out then read one more page of this horrific book.
A detective story that is the perfect cross between Kafka and Chandler. Crazy, scary, and flat out fun.
Really good. Like a narcoleptic Memento. You get the feeling you are sharing his symptoms.
Interesting detective story, not usually my thing but I liked it.
I enjoyed this a lot, although it's not as startling as the first volume (often a problem with sequels to strong novels).
A little rougher than the first one I thought, seemed like the balance between being "serious" and keeping the character like-able wasn't kept as well. Maybe that was intentional, but the outcome for me was I just wasn't as invested in the character.
The Genevich books give me much of what I love about Marlowe, Spade, and the Continental Op without the lip-curling, recoil-inducing elements that makes it hard for me to remember the time period in which they were written and read them in context.
I enjoy the wit, the banter, the slowly unfolding twists and turns, and his imperfections. As I read it, I found myself sharing passages and dog-earring pages containing bits that I especially liked.
I enjoy the wit, the banter, the slowly unfolding twists and turns, and his imperfections. As I read it, I found myself sharing passages and dog-earring pages containing bits that I especially liked.
No sophomore slump here. Better than the first one. I love his writing style.
Crappy book. Don't waste your time.
Delightful!!
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Paul Tremblay is the author of novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland.
He is a two-time nominee of the Bram Stoker award has sold over fifty short stories to markets such as Razor Magazine, Weird Tales, Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis Three, and Horror: The Year’s Best 2007. He is the author of the short speculative fiction collections In the Mean Tim...more
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He is a two-time nominee of the Bram Stoker award has sold over fifty short stories to markets such as Razor Magazine, Weird Tales, Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis Three, and Horror: The Year’s Best 2007. He is the author of the short speculative fiction collections In the Mean Tim...more
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