[SXN]⇒ Download The Experiment of Dreams Brandon Zenner 9780692355138 Books

The Experiment of Dreams Brandon Zenner 9780692355138 Books

Download As PDF : The Experiment of Dreams Brandon Zenner 9780692355138 Books

The Experiment of Dreams Brandon Zenner 9780692355138 Books

The author has some good ideas but seriously needs an editor. At the very least, he needs some grammar and spell checking. Words are misused or spelled oddly, grammar is botched, and the construction of the book is seriously flawed. I read it anyway, but wouldn't re-read it. There are bits and pieces that remind me of other writers: a scene with a painting is reminiscent of Stephen King's "Rose Madder", and a nano-inspired woman has shades of Michael Crichton's "Prey". The protagonist, Ben, is an aimless widower who drinks and spends much of his time getting paid to do sleep experiments. His latest assignment plunges him into a strange world in which he isn't sure what is real and what isn't. When I wasn't being distracted by the errors, I found the story interesting. Unfortunately, the writing is barely at high school level and the distractions won out. There's also a major anomaly in the epilogue that made me want to toss the book at the wall, but it was a Kindle so I simply deleted it from my collection.


Tags : The Experiment of Dreams [Brandon Zenner] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. "I found myself dropping my kindle in shock at a few points . . . It's wonderful." -Shawn Remfrey,Brandon Zenner,The Experiment of Dreams,Brandon\Zenner,0692355138,FICTION Thrillers Medical,Fiction - Espionage Thriller,Thriller suspense,Thrillers - Medical

The Experiment of Dreams Brandon Zenner 9780692355138 Books Reviews

This book repeatedly appeared in my recommendations on every site Audible, , GoodReads, ets. So after reading and re-reading the summary, I think I purchased it when it was free something like a year and a half ago. I still didn’t find the urge to sit down and read the thing.

Then I found it on Unlimited with narration. So, ok, I borrowed it and dove in.

Just like all the other three star and below reviews, I was very interested in the very beginning. Even with Ben sort of shrugging his shoulders at the hinky stuff and pressing the accelerator without too much introspection and curiosity, I was kind of ok with that. I mean, you have to put aside your disbelief sometimes, right?

The machine itself, Lucy? Well, scientists have been trying to build something like that for a while now, especially since those things have appeared in several movies over the past 50 years or so. I can wrap my mind around it easy.

So the first half of the book is beautiful, aside from the easy way Ben has of sliding into this strangeness in the first place. The descriptions are surreal, just like the cover. I liked it.

However, it starts flailing around the second half where suddenly we’re in the middle of so much exposition it felt like an historical text. I did like the twistiness of the end, but probably could have done without the character monologues telling me what happened.

So I’m hovering right about three stars despite the fact that I love the premise. Because who needs to make themselves finish a book when you’ve already figured out the ending and all the characters are doing is telling you in a very long winded fashion that you’re right?
Experiment of Dreams was a fun read. Ben Walker is involved in an experiment in which his dreams are recorded every night. But he has a unique talent. He is a lucid dreamer, meaning that he is aware when he is dreaming and can control what he dreams, to some degree.

After going through some testing with a legitimate doctor, he is approached by some men who represent a wealthy man who wants to hire Ben to have his dreams recorded by an invention known as Lucy. They take Ben to various places in the world and have him spend hours studying masterpieces of art, after which they record his dreams. Eventually, he finds out that they are reproducing the art from his dreams, perfect reproductions, down to the brush strokes.

To aid the experimentation, the doctors that work for Kalispell, the wealthy man, have invented a serum, which is injected into Ben's bloodstream on a regular basis. We learn, at one point that Ben is not the first to be exposed to this serum. There was another, and it didn't end well.

In the middle of all of this, Ben, whose wife died tragically a few years prior, meets a beautiful woman at an airport and falls in love with her. But as the story progresses, there are doubts as to whether she truly exists or not. Is Ben dreaming her? Is he going crazy because of the effects of the serum?

There are plenty of unexpected twists in this thriller by Brandon Zenner, one of which I totally did not see coming.
There is a great story inside the covers of this book. Unfotunately, it is obfuscated by the author’s writing style.

And when I say “great”, I’m not being snarky. The central idea in the book isn’t shiny new, but the places the author wants to take it were new to me. The main character started out being very interesting, and continued to be so until the last fifth of the book (or so, I don’t have some kind of book caliper with which to measure them). In fact that was true of all the characters, and the plot caught me up right away, and had me trying to guess where it would go.

Unfortunately, the author wrote this book in the style of a TV episodic mystery, and used all the cheesy nonsense that writers of such shows deploy in order to generate “mystery” out of nothing and spin out the story. This involved sudden infodumps in flashback of increasingly unlikely backstory just in time to use whatever skill the character was going to use that the reader had no inkling of until then. This comes from the same school of writing as “With a mighty bound he was free!”. Think that first wheelspinning series of “24”.

Everything the author wanted to use could have been put into the story in a different way to better effect. Every time a crisis loomed a flashback containing the fix would happen. It wasn’t that the elements of these flashbacks were implausible, just that the delivery was contrived.

I won’t be re-reading this one despite the clever idea, nor am I likely to buy more from the author on the strength of this book.

The version seemed free from markup errors and typos on the whole.
The author has some good ideas but seriously needs an editor. At the very least, he needs some grammar and spell checking. Words are misused or spelled oddly, grammar is botched, and the construction of the book is seriously flawed. I read it anyway, but wouldn't re-read it. There are bits and pieces that remind me of other writers a scene with a painting is reminiscent of Stephen King's "Rose Madder", and a nano-inspired woman has shades of Michael Crichton's "Prey". The protagonist, Ben, is an aimless widower who drinks and spends much of his time getting paid to do sleep experiments. His latest assignment plunges him into a strange world in which he isn't sure what is real and what isn't. When I wasn't being distracted by the errors, I found the story interesting. Unfortunately, the writing is barely at high school level and the distractions won out. There's also a major anomaly in the epilogue that made me want to toss the book at the wall, but it was a so I simply deleted it from my collection.