The Family that Couldn't Sleep by D.T. Max

The Family that Couldn't Sleep

D.T. Max

299 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced

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For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a...

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Moods

informative 100%
dark 50%
mysterious 37%
reflective 37%
challenging 25%
emotional 12%
sad 12%
tense 12%

Pace

medium 83%
slow 16%

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3.94

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