'Sleepless' by Charlie Huston - Book Club Discussion Questions

What if the next great epidemic is a disease that causes people to never sleep? What if it affected a detective’s wife and newborn to the breaking point of hysteria? What if a drug called dreamer and a video game called Chasm Tide were the keys to curing the disease? These questions are the premise of Charlie Huston's Sleepless. Use these book club discussion questions on Sleepless to lead your reading group into the book.

Spoiler Warning: These book club discussion questions reveal important details about Sleepless by Charlie Huston. Finish the book before reading on.

1. Would being sleepless be worse to you than having a horrible disease?
2. What was the most vivid scene in the novel that represented the effects of SLP?
3. What do you think people would most value in the end if they could not sleep and were going to die in one year?
4. Do you think a video game would eventually become a universal virtual reality retreat in an ever-growing sleepless world?
5. Do you feel the story had a smooth a narrative flow? Why or why not?
6. Do you think Huston was attempting to represent the feeling of having SLP with his style? Why or why not?
7. Do you think Park remained honest and true and accomplished his mission in the end? Why or why not?
8. Rate Sleepless 1 to 5.