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The Woman of My Dreams Kindle Edition

by Glenn Fain (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Sleepwalking through a decade of soulless jobs, Arnold Brinckman is still reeling from his girlfriend's suicide. When he is convinced all hope is lost, the beautiful and exotic Anastasia appears in his dreams, teaching him to live and love again. But this lesson may come at a price Arnold isn't willing to pay. Suddenly, reality and dream begin to blur as Arnold loses his way. Is the woman of his dreams really a nightmare Arnold can't survive?

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"Intensely Heartbreaking! I absolutely loved the premise of the story and it was more than a story. It was a deep-seeded journey that kept this reader wanting more and wondering what was real and what was the dream. Arnold is a very complex character with a lot of depth. His loss is felt throughout the story and his torment is even greater. The woman of his dreams, indeed. Highly recommended, and it definitely made my top ten of the year!" -Amy's Bookshelf Reviews, at writeramyshannon.wixsite.com/bookshelfreviews/single-post/2016/12/10/The-Woman-of-my-Dreams-by-Glenn-Fain

"Author Glenn Fain has crafted a suspenseful paranormal thriller out of our fear and attraction to the allure of love, death and dreams. We want to know about life after death and where love goes and how it changes...or do we? This is a dark and uncomfortable story. Most of it takes place in Arnold's apartment or at his job, and in his dreams. The repetition of dreams and scenes make the reader feel like Arnold- what is the truth, what is really happening? This book has an amazing and intriguing plot, but for me, it was just too much. There are also graphic sexual scenes and language. But, many readers who are fans of the paranormal will be captivated by the crazed days and nights of Arnold. Here is a macabre page turner that will satisfy some readers and discombobulate others." - Jena C. Henry, read full review at Readers Review Room, readersreviewroom.com/books-by-this-author/the-woman-of-my-dreams/

If you need a book that covers multiple genres and moods, The Woman of My Dreams is for you. It's somewhere in the realms of paranormal, suspense and romance, the latter two genres not being something I usually go for. The Woman of My Dreams starts off funny and light, grows into intelligent fun, and then dives into sensitive, well-crafted depression for the end. - Examining the Odd, examiningtheodd.com/2017/03/25/review-the-woman-of-my-dreams-by-glenn-fain/

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The heartbreaking and terrifying novel The Woman of My Dreams enters the world of Arnold Brinckman, a man who has given up on life. After his girlfriend's suicide, Arnold sleepwalks through a decade of soulless jobs, living a passionless existence. And then the beautiful Anastasia appears in his dreams like some exotic revelation, a secret wish come true. She teaches him to love again. But this comes at a steep price, one that Arnold isn't ready to pay. What are dreams? What is the waking world? The line that divides the two blurs, and Arnold loses his way. As Anastasia wreaks havoc with Arnold's waking life, his tenuous grip on sanity may not be enough to save him.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N2RJYMV
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 7, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 412 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 222 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1539506096

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Glenn Fain is the author of three published novels, "Tease," "The Angel Experiment," and most recently "The Woman of My Dreams." They are all totally unique, not only from each other, but from any other books previously published. Attempting to fit them into any one category is impossible and currently driving the author insane. Why must novels be put into neat little boxes? His novels do not want to behave and tend to rebel.

He's currently pondering whether to publish the first novel he wrote years earlier, a crazy love story with Rilke's "Duino Elegies" strewn throughout the book. It even has a talking cat and an angel that hovers occasionally in place of the ceiling.

He has studied various subjects extensively at many different universities, most importantly the study of literature and psychology, which he is attempting to put to creative use, but without much practical success.

He has a fondness for not only Cervantes and Shakespeare, but also Agatha Christie, Colin Dexter and various other writers from above and below.

He currently lives in Seattle with his two cats. One of his dreams is getting to Europe one of these days. Permanently. Amsterdam, Prague, Copenhagen, Budapest, all have much attraction for him.

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... Glenn and his craft and storytelling just keep getting better! You never know where the characters and story ...

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2017

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Excellent Storytelling! This is the third book I've ready by Glenn and his craft and storytelling just keep getting better! You never know where the characters and story will lead so as a result you can't put the book down. Love the dream world meets reality and you are not sure which is which. Great read! Also highly recommend his first two: 'Tease' and 'The Angel Experiment',

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2017

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I thought I knew who Janie was. A mentally disturbed goddess or a succubus? Freddy Kruger's sister? I had to keep reading to find out. A very good read!

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Hugh Higgins

Excursion into Love's Real Unreality or Unreal Reality

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2017

This novel is comfortable and friendly, interesting and attention-getting so that one wants to keep reading. (I have a review copy.) The natural demeanor of the protagonist is winning, as he weaves his way through dream, reality, super-dream and super-reality.

It's a love story, but also a treatise on the nature of reality, and on lucid dreaming. One cannot help but relate Arnold's experiences to one's own, and gain illumination thereby. He takes a sophisticated, almost epistemological view of the intense dream-experiences which bring him in contact with a "dead" lover, so that we get a grip on his life from more than one direction---his questing mind is one factor; his passionate heart another; his raw need of love another; and his disorienting difficulty in knowing what is real another.

In some ways, his inability to know for sure what in his vivid love life is real and what is not mirrors the reader's (likely) inability to know for sure whether a love-relation is real or not. So the novel is almost a parable of what it is to be confused about love.

Further, the nature of possible after-death states is examined throughout the story, deftly summarizing many of the experiences reported in Near Death Experiences by multitudes of people. Fain has done his work in learning from that literature and making it come alive in his Anastasia character. Her experiences have verisimilitude.

With it all is an amiable ambiance---relaxing and rewarding descriptions of Arnold's prosaic yet interesting life. Fain has a gift for making the ordinary remarkable and worth pondering.

Further issues arise as Arnold seems to teeter on the edge of madness. At that point our confrontation of the riddle of "What is really real?" becomes more dire and pressing. Yet I came away from the novel feeling I had had a helpful excursion into the mechanics of my own dream-life, my hopes and doubts, and the nature of love-attachments and experiences.

Therefore The Woman of My Dreams is a thoughtful and rewarding experience as well as an entertaining story.

Hugh Higgins

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Alex Allred

If your dreams seem more real than your life, are you sure you know the difference?

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2017

This is a story of how far a life can drift when one experiences a traumatic loss. In the first glimmerings of his life to come, Arnold suddenly loses what he sees as defining that life and is cast adrift. As he drifts away, years go by until Arthur is confronted with his loss. But is this loss a ghost that is haunting him or is it madness? Is Arthur happier in the dreams of the enchanting Anastasia, or in finding a path back to a fulfillment in his waking life? I was held to the end in trying to find out.

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Intensely Heartbreaking!

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2016

I absolutely loved the premise of the story and it was more than a story. It was a deep-seeded journey that kept this reader wanting more and wondering what was real and what was the dream. Arnold is a very complex character with a lot of depth. His loss is felt throughout the story and his torment is even greater. The woman of his dreams, indeed. Highly recommended, and it definitely made my top ten of the year!

I received this book free in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. ~Amy's Bookshelf Reviews

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Tracy Swehla

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Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2017

*I was provided with a complimentary copy of this book so I could give an honest review.

In this story we find Arnold dealing with the loss of his girlfriend, Janie. Back in college, they had tried LSD and felt they had a meeting of the minds of some sort during an acid trip. Perhaps that experience is the catalyst for Janie being able to come back and visit Arnold in his dreams. The main premise of the story seems to toy with the idea that the mind has the ability to do much more than what the consciousness controls. Interesting idea.

Janie is killed in a car accident and Arnold is left alone and adrift. Arnold remains adrift and unlikeable throughout the entire story. His lack of direction, lack of feeling, lack of motivation was very irritating. Arnold never exhibited any emotions. The author stated he felt this or that, but Arnold never behaved as if he felt anything. The worst part of this is played out during the a sex scene where Ellen (the dead girlfriends sister…. Which is just a hate-able action) and Arnold have a mundane conversation (a wordy one at that) while he is kissing her breasts, etc. I almost put the book down and quit reading then; the promise to offer an honest review was the single reason for finishing this book.

The idea of having a girlfriend in the dream world and another in the awake world is actually very interesting. But the protagonist should struggle with ethical questions of right and wrong, and actually feel guilt…or anything. Arnold just did whatever the girl he was with told him to do. He had no backbone. He made no decisions. The reader is left to rely upon the author telling what Arnold did do rather than allowing the reader watch Arnold’s actions and feel his feelings. It’s impossible to feel sympathy, or feel anything but frustration toward such a protagonist.

How did he pay his bills? So much of this story was just unrealistic. Possibly his apartment was so dumpy and cheap that he truly could live on a dish washer salary and skip work as much as he did, but we needed to be shown how he got by in the world.

Another characterization that was questionable happened with Grace. I loved that Janie went back to help her mother. But why did Grace giggle and act coquettish. There was no explanation for that weird and out of character behavior for an adult business owner and the mother of two grown women …maybe she would act that way if she were 10, 11 or 15. But why did she behave that way at her age? There was no explanation behind that strangeness.

Shallow characterization, lack of sympathy for any character, rambling details about situations that just didn’t matter (for example, the conversation with the cab driver) actions that are explained after the fact, for example, I opened my eyes which had closed, made this story hard to like. Please explain actions prior to the following action or just leave it out, it’s a trip-up for the readers.

While the concept of the mind and the dream world was interesting, the story and the characters are lacking.

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