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K-Pax: The Trilogy, featuring Prot's Report: Omnibus Featuring Prot's Report (Paperback)

by Gene Brewer (Author)
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  • Paperback: 800 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (15 Dec 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 074756695X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747566953
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 33,570 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'K-PAX is a gloriously off-beat comedy that reads like a combination of Starman, Oliver Sacks and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' Esquire


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"K-PAX explores the nature of truth, reality and our enduring need to believe." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it. Read it. Love it., 13 Jul 2001
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This review is from: K-Pax (Paperback)
K-PAX is one of the great underrated science fiction novels. It's a simple tale, beautifully told, which draws you in and makes you want to believe in the characters. Until the end, you could almost believe it's a true story.

Written as a first person account by a psychiatrist treating a patient who claims to be from another planet. "prot", as he calls himself, explains that he will return to his home planet of K-PAX at a specified time and date, riding on a beam of light -- and taking one of the other inmates of the hospital with him. Meanwhile, Dr. Brewer tries to understand who prot really is, and to demonstrate to himself and to prot that his patient is an ordinary human.

Too often this kind of book begins promisingly but fails to deliver on the promise -- the mysteries set out before the reader are explained away too easily, or the delicate sense of almost-reality that these stories depend on is broken. But K-PAX delivers on all fronts. Every explanation has another mystery hidden inside it, and the ending is at once realistic and rational, making sense of everything so far, while leaving some doubt and hope in your mind.

When I read K-PAX, I immediately went out and bought another copy for a friend. He phoned me up later: "I got home at midnight and saw you'd left a book for me. I thought, 'That's nice, I'll read for half an hour or so before I go to sleep." And I couldn't put it down! You &*$@*?#!". It was 4:30 in the morning.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning, 3 Jun 2002
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This review is from: K-Pax (Paperback)
I ordered this casually from a catalogue and picked it up casually this morning as it was at the top of my unread pile. I have been unable to put this down all day (and the lawn has remained unmowed!). This is the most compelling book I have read for several years and I just glad that my 'casual' book order included K-PAZ II!

I assumed this was a straight forward fiction novel, but the first person narrative of the psychiatrist almost makes you question whether this is non fiction whilst the dialogue with 'prot' turns you to believe this is a science fiction novel. In its denouement it becomes a amalgam of all three and it's clever and convincing writing helps it stand up on all fronts.

You will want to know who or what 'prot' is and right up the end gene brewer keeps you enthralled. Read this book.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars So good, you might ask yourself if it was a true story, 22 Dec 2003
I saw the film K-Pax and really wanted to read the Book, as it would go into much more detail about many things. And i was not dissapointed. At first, I decided to buy the first book, as i though i wouldn't like it. But, after deciding to buy the Omnibus edition i was not dissapointed. Buying the three books separately will cost you more, but also, after reading one, you will want to read the next one soon after. So the omnibus edition is a good idea. I didn't sleep properly for two nights because the book, i really wanted to know what happened next.

With this edition, you also get Prot's Report which is interesting in its right, but i prefer the way the story is told from Gene's view.

In short, go buy this book, as it will keep you guessing until the end, and will make you think alot. While reading, you might even ask yourslef if this was a true story (unfortunately not).

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond this world
This book is written as if by a K-PAXian. I will not repeat what everybody has read in other reviews but I just want to emphasize that it is a genius of a novel. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Diaa M. Fakhr

3.0 out of 5 stars Probably best if you just read the first book....
This is one of the hardest books to put down that I've ever encountered, but the experience is sometimes a frustrating one. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Matt_K

3.0 out of 5 stars five stars for the first book and then one less each for the rest
I saw the film K-Pax starring Kevin Spacey and thought it was rather good. I decided to risk reading the book. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Mrs. K. A. Wheatley

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Insights Into Small Minds
The first book is excellent and the denoument (I'll not spoil it) wraps the book up perfectly. It satisfies at every level. Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2007 by James Mcallister

5.0 out of 5 stars beautifully written, food for thought, feel good all around
It's rare to find a trilogy that gets better with each book but this is it, so this trilogy edition is a must buy. Read more
Published on 25 April 2007 by Purple Dragon

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic read. You must buy this book
This really was a fantastic read. If you are thinking of buying just the first book in the trilogy...STOP. Buy this one instead. Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2006 by Peter Harding

5.0 out of 5 stars Out Of This World
This book is one of a trilogy by Gene Brewer, in this book you take the first person role of a doctor of a mentally ill clinic. Read more
Published on 31 Dec 2005 by Jay Slayton-joslin

4.0 out of 5 stars Prot...Alien?
A damn good book...simple yet ingenius!

Written by Gene Brewer, this unique novel tells the tale of a psychiatrist's treating of a man (prot) who is 100% convinced he is from a... Read more

Published on 22 Jun 2005 by darzinho

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent
want to work your little grey cells? get this book!!! it's so philosophical and it really gets you thinking about the world and everything. it's just soooooo good!
Published on 11 Jun 2004 by inobsequious

3.0 out of 5 stars Sacks in Space
I read K-Pax after seeing the film. It's a pretty good mix of Oliver Sacks style psychoanalysis and sci-fi. Read more
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