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Title: Are you awake or asleep?
Review: Coma by Alex Garland is a quirky journey into a dreamlike reality. It is a mystery that never quite unravels itself. The story unwinds with a gripping feeling of reality all its own and at the end you find yourself wondering if it just a dream, or something else. Garland does an exception job of capturing the jerky, suddenly awake, feeling throughout the story. It all seems to take place in those few seconds when the mind is between asleep and awake and grasping for that place where the dream breaks off and reality takes over. The work is unusual in that it manages to capture the wandering, disjointed feelings of almost being awake and it leaves you wondering if the character is really waking up or has been awake all along. It is short, artful, interesting and intriguing like all Garland's work.
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