Insomnia
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.98 (899 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1598877631 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 597 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is the other King-the Grand Vizier of Verbosity who gave us It, The Tommyknockers and Needful Things. From Publishers Weekly Forget the lean, mean King of Misery, Gerald's Game and Dolores Claiborne. Notable is a rare septuagenarian hero, recently widowed Ralph Roberts, whose broodings on old age immerse readers into the aging psyche almost as clearly as other King heroes have revealed the minds of children. Then there's the slam-bang final 300 pages, in themselves a novel's worth of excitement as Ralph battles demonic entities to prevent a holocaust in his small town of Derry, Maine (site of It). King remains popular fiction's most reliable mirror of cultural trends, in particular our continu
"A Slow Burn, sure, But Well Crafted and Very Readable!" according to AllenB. How did I miss this one? I knowI'm very late to the "Insomnia" party. I lost touch with SK for awhile in the 90s and early aughts. I've had to go back and discover the "Dark Tower" series along with several of his other works from that era. I'm glad to have finally found this one and was pleasantly surprised to discover the references to some of the "Dark Tower" lore. I found "Insomnia" very enjoyable.. Not what I expectedBETTER! NO SPOILERS Lorrie Bensky Smith Stephen King just gets better with age! (Save the cliches.) From the gore of his early works, to truly an amazing imagination, he's pulled off another fantasy no one's been able to copy. Touching, frightening and almost too real.The reader gets invested in his characters, not unlike The Stand. (One of King's finest works)I was hooked with Kindle's sample and blew threw it too fast, again! ONLY King can. One of King's best This is one of my favorite King novels. I bought it with the audio reading for an 8 hour drive by myself. The total length of this book is 25 hours, so it lasted me there and back and I kept on with it until it was finished. I have read reviews that the beginning is too slow, but I found that the character development was important to the story and I was never bored. I loved that the main characters ar
The nice young chemist up the street beats his wife and has delusions about beings he calls "The Centurions." A madman with a knife is trying to kill him, he's sure. But the bizarre visions he's been having keep getting more intense, the strange deaths in Derry have just begun, and Ralph knows he isn't hallucinating.Returning to the town of Derry, Maine, the setting of one of his most critically acclaimed novels, It, Stephen King combines bone-chilling realism with supernatural terror to create yet another masterpiece of suspense.. What does it all mean? Ralph doesn't quite know. Each night he stays awake, he witnesses more of the odd activity taking place in his town after dark than he wants to know. And on the night May Locher died, one of the two bald men coming out of her house had a pair of scissors in his hand. Ralph Roberts has an incurable case of insomnia, but lack of sleep is the least of his worries