Insomnia
January 3, 2010 by Admin
Filed under Additional Resources
- ISBN13: 9780451184962
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Ralph Roberts hasn’t been sleeping well lately. Every morning he wakes just a little bit earlier until pretty soon, he isn’t sleeping at all. It wouldn’t be so bad if not for the strange hallucinations–and the nightmares that keep coming to life…. More >>
When I bought it their wasn’t anything mentioned about it being on casset tapes. So I can’t listen to it untill I can find a tape player.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve read and loved many King novels. Do not waste any time out of your life on this one. Narrow minded one sided political rants with the most STUPID story known to humanity mixed in. It’s about as scary as sharing a pot of tea with your Grandmother. No rewards for the reader what so ever….. just DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!
Buy MISERY instead!!!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
This was my first King book and I must say that it was awful. I’m not giving up on him because I know that he must be good given all the praise he has received and the great movies that have come about from his work. However, this book was so ridiculous, just cookie cutter material that provided no real feelings and I found myself reading it just to finish it, hoping for an improvement on the next page, chapter or part. The only reason that people have rated it so well is…well I have no clue, unless they’re die-hard fans just giving all his work 5 stars. Ridiculous. Don’t bother. I’m just 40 pages into The Shining I can tell it will be much better.
Rating: 2 / 5
For those of you who need to test the waters and try out all the fruits Stephen King has to offer, good luck with Insomnia. It’s bitter and over-ripe and maybe a little rotten on the inside.
Insomnia is a sprawling, rambling, 800 page monster that Stephen King put out back in 1994 when the aftertaste of Delores Claiborne and the mediocre short story collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes was wearing off. Written at the height of his game, Insomnia may have been something different, but it wasn’t. Weird in many, many places, it starts slow and keeps building to something you don’t expect, nor care for. When Clive Barker gets weird, we stand back and gawk and try to make heads or tails of the abomination he has birthed…when King does it we step back and shake our heads and say “Huh?” Built around the story of an old widower who starts seeing weird little men cutting invisible balloons from peoples’ heads, Insomnia moves on to cover a psychotic abusive husband…a shelter for abused women … and a climax that has strange (if head-shakingly puzzling) effects that extend to the Dark Tower series.
I’ve been reading King since I was a kid and have read (and many times re-read)everything he has ever published. Does that make me an expert, an authority? I think it does. This is King past his prime and falling down. I have never reread this one and maybe that’s a crime, maybe Insomnia, like Cujo, gets better with a second go through, but I seriously doubt it. This is not prime King and neither are his next three or four novels. Sad to see the King losing his touch, but it happens to us all. There are many, many more interesting and frightening and enthralling novels from Stephen King, go find one and steer clear of Insomnia unless you positively have to.
Deal with it.
I have just finished re-reading Insomnia and 13 years has definitely done this book justice. The first time I met Ralph Roberts all those years ago, I wasn’t very fascinated. Not at all. Now that I have taken the time to re-read the book I have another view on this 800 page behemouth. First off, perhaps I was expecting another IT back then and now I no longer expect that from King. I take what I can get, for better or worse. Having finished The Dark Tower series helped just the tiniest bit in digesting King here. Back in the day, the final page had kinda stumped me and infuriated me a little because it seemed like a rip-off nod to Roland, The Gunslinger from the Dark Tower series, which, back in ‘94 was far from being finished. Insight. What a great tool. I no longer thing that this book is horrible. It is kinda long, but enthralling nevertheless. Perhaps I should give some of King’s other horrid outing a second try? Gerald’s Game? Rose Madder? Desperation? Maybe.
Rating: 2 / 5
“Insomnia” is a negative example of the problems with later period Stephen King novels. A passibly scary story idea worthy of perhaps a novella length treatment in a “Four Past Midnight” type collection, instead stretched out for seven or eight hundred pages until as a reader insomnia is one of the last of your problems. Once again, King creates a decent setup that loses effectiveness as many pages crawl by with little or no action. This is not one of his best or in the end even all that scary.
Rating: 2 / 5