Title: the first paragraph sets the tone
Product review: In the first paragraph we learn the character's sleep is visited - not interrupted, mind you, but visited - by phantoms: images of everything from family members to fruit trees. In the same breath we are told he didn't dream - that these images guarded the portal to dreams. Hmm. Sounds nice and literary, but if your sleep is visited by phantoms and images isn't that dreaming? Then we learn that he is insomniac and didn't sleep at all. Okay... But the pain he feels "throughout all his waking hours" only hits him when his feet hit the floor. Huh? Three self-contradictions on the first page. If good writing is long, rhythmic streams of words, and that seems to be the definition of the other reviewers here, then DG is a genius. By any other definition this is verbiose, pretentious drivel.
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