![]() His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Returning to the same Maine town where It took place, a town that has haunted Stephen King for decades, Insomnia blends King’s trademark bone-chilling realism with supernatural terror to create yet another masterpiece of suspense. Now Ralph is part of it…and lack of sleep is the least of his worries. ![]() The dying has been going on in Derry for a long, long time. There’s a definite mean streak running through this small New England city underneath its ordinary surface awesome and terrifying forces are at work. He begins to suspect that these visions are something more than hallucinations brought on by lack of sleep. He sees colored ribbons streaming from people’s heads, two strange little men wandering around town after dark, and more. During his late night walks, he observes some strange things going on in Derry, Maine. Each night he wakes up a bit earlier, until he’s barely sleeping at all. Since his wife died, Ralph Roberts has been having trouble sleeping. Marvelous-that is, full of marvels” ( Booklist). It’s a wonderfully full novel that ties in with the rest of the King universe, but stands easily on its own with a fantastic story that plays on legends, myths, and perhaps even dances around alien abduction? I don’t want to give away too much as it’s best to go in completely unaware and let the story weave around you.Ī fantastic captivating read, and while I regret not reading it years ago, I’m glad I waited and got maximum enjoyment out of it.A #1 national bestseller-“A yarn so packed with suspense, romance, literary reference, fascinating miscellaneous knowledge, and heart that only Stephen King could have written it. ![]() Obviously there are nods to It, and the Dark Tower, but there is also a nod to Pet Sematary, and perhaps others that I may have missed. I got so wrapped up in this one, delighting in Ralph, his friend Lois, the people that populate the town on a number of levels and all the subtle, and not so subtle nods that tie this novel into the King universe. This wasn’t some young hero, this was a character in his golden years, a man who had lived, and was now dealing with the loss of his wife, and as suggested by the book’s title, insomnia.Īs his sleep is stolen away from him, Ralph begins to realize that there is all manner of things going on in Derry, and even as a pro-choice speech and rally is gearing up, wheels are in motion that may cause a shocking loss of life, unless Ralph is able to stop it.īut when he is plunged into a world that exists around us unseen, time and reality all come into question and he is set on a terrifying course that may have one inescapable and final conclusion. This was older man, a senior, who is drawn into something magical and terrifying. Over the course of some 900 pages I had gotten to known Ralph, and his friends, and realized he was not like other King creations. ![]() I didn’t want to leave these characters behind. ![]() I soaked in the book, taking in page after page, enjoying the new characters, delighting when they brushed up against familiar names and places, and as the story of Ralph Roberts began drawing to a close. Every time I had read the blurb, or cover jacket for King’s Insomnia there was nothing about it that really caught my interest, nothing leaped out at me, and I was afraid that perhaps this one wouldn’t be enjoyable to me at all when I finally dug into it.Īs I raced through this book, I devoured it, enjoying everything to be found within its pages, going back to Derry, Maine, hearing some very solid tie ins to my treasured Dark Tower series, and of course, King’s storytelling. ![]()
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