Nick Saban's Crime Novel Receives Scathing Reviews

Nick Saban's debut novel The Color of Sleep was released last week to multitudinous opinion...

Knoxville News Sentinel - "Dumbasses have a new voice. This book should die in a fire."

Baton Rouge Advocate - "Six monkeys typing on six typewriters for about three hours could've come up with this. Great twist at the end though."

Auburn Journal - "Terrible. Where to start? First off, writing a book with Jim Belushi as your lead character and framing it around crime-fighting while filming "According to Jim" all the while making us read your terrible "According to Jim" scripts is not a recipe for success. Secondly, an entire chapter of Jim Belushi watching "Over The Top" while making comments? Seriously? I wouldn't read this book again to stop somebody from punching my mother in the throat."

Starkville Daily News - "2.5 stars".

Lexington Herald Leader - [The Lexington Herald Leader is against books and doesn't shy away from that fact.]

Nashville Tennesseean - "There should be a five-day waiting period to buy a computer so that a background check can be done in order to hopefully prevent anything like this book from happening again."

The Oxford Eagle - "Saban delivers a book full of excitment and witty dialogue. What he fails to deliver is adequate punctuation."

Athens Banner-Herald - "While we liked having the story centered around Jim Belushi, the story lost all believability when it was revealed that Belushi had the power of flight."

Gainesville Sun - "Saban seems to want to rub the common man's nose in the fact that he can write a book so full of plot twists and intellectual banter that much of his story gets lost in translation. I love the fact that his main character can fly, but I don't know why he needed to involve science to explain it."

The Columbia Star - "Having now read several books, I can easily say that this was the longest. At over 70 pages, Saban seems to flaunt his love for John Steinbeck with seemingly nowhere-going monologues, like the "butter knife argument". You will, however, love the fact that the main character (Jim Belushi!) can fly, and Saban does a masterful job of getting you emotionally involved in Belushi's attempt to breathe fire. But after it's all spelled out, this is essentially a book about a dragon who solves crime in between shooting his sitcom; but for some reason Saban decided to turn the dragon into Jim Belushi."

Northwest Arkansas Times - "If you've read Gene Stallings' Passion Holler, then you've essentially read The Color of Sleep."

Tuscaloosa News - "Amazing! Saban's prose is only exceeded by his story-telling! So many twists and turns you'll think you're an SEC coach. Somebody call the folks at Gideon, they've now got a second book to distribute! Easily the book of the year. In Jim Belushi, we finally have a hero to write home about--if we didn't all still live in the same house. The Color of Sleep will leave you eagerly anticipating the sequel Cotton Mouth Jive."