Product Description

Welcome to the DREAM PARLOR. You are now entering a world of pure imagination, a realm of lucid dreams. Journey to the summit of your greatest hopes. Explore your most primative desires. At the Parlor, you can be everything you want. Go anywhere. Do anything. No questions asked. All it costs is your soul. In a futuristic society on the verge of global oppression, Elijah Barrett, a man torn between destiny and assimilation, rises to challenge The System. He targets the Dream Parlor as the focal point of recent crimes against humanity. Caught tampering with classified documents and tagged as a fugitive, Eli must solve the mystery of the Dream Parlor to save countless lives ... even if it risks his own.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4835136 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 236 pages

Review
[Impressive] characters ... An amazing read ... [will] appeal to a much wider audience than the usual science fiction crowd. -- Booknet.org.uk, June 1, 2001

From the Author
DREAM PARLOR is the novelization of our science-fiction, independent feature-film -- the novel contains 20 productions photos from the movie.

From the Inside Flap
Welcome to the DREAM PARLOR. You are now entering a world of pure imagination, a realm of lucid dreams. Journey to the summit of your greatest hopes. Explore your most primitive desires. At the PARLOR, you can be everything you want. Go anywhere. Do anything. No Questions Asked ... all it costs is your soul.

Actor/Writer CHRISTOPHER ANDREWS co-wrote and starred in the film version of "Dream Parlor," produced by Timeless Entertainment. Christopher currently lives in California with his fiancee and one-eyed Pug. This is his fourth novel — his third novel, "Pandora's Game," is currently available from Xlibris.

Customer Reviews

A really good novel.
Andrews is great at visually describing his scenes, which in this case should be no surprise, as this is apparently the novelization of a film. Having pictures from the movie helps bring the reader even further into the gloomy world that he has created. In our world of credit cards and numbered IDs, the concept of the Identification Chip is all-too realistic. It's a thought-provoking story. Now I want to see the movie.

Excellent from beginning to end
Christopher Andrews has a way with words. He will keep you motivated to turn the page from the moment you start reading this excellent adaptation from the screenplay. I look forward to seeing the movie. This book is captivating! Get your hands on one now!

Again, I have to go with the majority
I read "Pandora's Game" a couple of months ago, and so when I was ready for more books, I was sure to include Christopher Andrews on my must read list. And unlike my disappointment in Gary Brandner's follow up to "The Howling," I am pleased to have quite the opposite experience with Andrews' "Dream Parlor."

The used copy I bought off of Ebay is pretty well read. It's a little beat up and many of the pages have been dog eared (all of the movie photo pages). All I can say is that I hope the previous reader enjoyed it as much as I did.

"Dream Parlor" is the novelization of a movie by the same name, which was co-written by Andrews. I looked it up at Blockbuster, but they don't have it for rent yet. I am SERIOUSLY considering buying it here at Amazon, because I absolutely LOVED this book!

The character of Elija Barrett is completely identifiable. He is a hero in the most HUMAN sense of the word. He stumbles, he falls, he's too hard on himself, and he doesn't seem to realize just how much good he accomplishes or how much it means to those around him (the lesson of a parent setting the bar too high for their child might not have been intentional, but it struck a deep chord with me). Dr. Corbit is an equally human villain. In fact, most of the supporting characters are given their moments in the spot light, which made them more than just regular plot pieces.

The movie stills are effective. They are not just random publicity shots clumped all together in the center of the book, but are sprinkled throughout the story, giving the reader a solid visual to go along with that particular passage of the book.

Not that extra visuals were needed. Andrews' writing is up another notch here. In "Pandora's Game," he used switching POV as an interesting technique. Here, the frequent interplay between the dreams and the waking world is equally involving.

For the first time since returning to reading and writing these reviews, I cannot think of a single drawback or flaw in this book. When push comes to shove, I think I'm still probably a bigger Dean R. Koontz fan, but standing on its own merits, I am pleased to give "Dream Parlor" my first 5 stars! And I am looking forward to "Paranormals" next.