Dreamer [Mass Market Paperback]

Daniel Quinn (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Tor Books (January 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812519582
• ISBN-13: 978-0812519587
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,234,672 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Fiction!, October 15, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Dreamer (Mass Market Paperback)

I picked up this hard to find book after reading Daniel Quinn's cultural critiques ISHMAEL, THE STORY OF B, MY ISHMAEL, and BEYOND CIVILIZATION. He wrote DREAMER in 1984 before any of the aforementioned books. DREAMER was a book he wrote not to do anything like he did in his future books, but simply as a fiction-thriller. It's truly an excellent read. You follow a free-lance writer through the streets of Chicago and wonder whether he's dreaming or awake. This book really plays with the idea that you can sleep in a dream and even have dreams in a dream. What is reality and what is dream (or nightmare?!)? This book is a thriller because you simply don't know. It's a real page turner and shows that Daniel Quinn could have been a horror writer on the level of Stephen King and Peter Straub. I of course, am glad he didn't-- because his 1992 novel ISHMAEL changed my life forever.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pleasantly Surprised, April 3, 2011

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Huby7 "Curt" (Springbrook, Wi United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dreamer (Mass Market Paperback)

I first learned about Daniel Quinn when I read Ishmael over ten years ago. Since than I've read all of his published work except Dreamer. It's been sitting on my shelf for years after I picked up from a second hand store. My wife read it twice and highly recommended it. I wanted to have nothing to do with it because I knew it was not going to be anything like Ishmael, or the books published by Daniel Quinn thereafter. Well, the other day I finally sat down and picked up Dreamer and a few days later I finished it. I was pleasantly surprised. I liked it. And I would recommend it to anybody looking for a good novel to read.