Product Description

Ralph's insomnia gets worse when Ed Deepneau gets out of control. Ed is obsessed with the notion that Derry is becoming the new Armageddon and that time is ticking away for the residents. An evil of imaginable propotions has began and Ralph has one chance to beat it.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #113834 in Books
• Published on: 1995-07-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 768 pages

Interzone
'As accomplished as ever'

Review
'Stephen King brings his usual chilly touch to INSOMNIA, the story of a small-town gripped by a creeping evil … This is not a horror story in the classic mould; it is a supernatural adventure romp on the fringes of the imagination, popular fiction at its best' (The Times )

'A supreme page-turner and a plot that will keep you awake at night' (GQ )

'As accomplished as ever' (Interzone )

Synopsis
Ralph's insomnia gets worse when Ed Deepneau gets out of control. Ed is obsessed with the notion that Derry is becoming the new Armageddon and that time is ticking away for the residents. An evil of imaginable proportions has began and Ralph has one chance to beat it.

Customer Reviews

Padded out with Filler or Filled out with Padding?
The book is filled with wretched truisms, armchair philosophizing and the mentioning of the banal trivia of human life, in a folksy "Aint that just so" kind of way, which is condescending and patronizing as well as being very frustrating to read. The plot crawls along. I dont mean crawls, i mean it slithers. No i dont i mean it goes into a state of hibernation.

Fan-bloody-tastic
King is such a fabulous author, and fires my imagination to such an extent, that sometimes when I think back to a book of his that I have read - I feel like I have watched a film of it instead - I can clearly see his characters and settings in my minds eye, which is why, in my view, King can do no wrong.
I lost myself in this book, and was so absorbed by Ralphs story, that I burst into tears at the conclusion of this book.

Five stars says it all.....
...so I won't go on too much about the plot etc, as other reviewers have done it for me.

As a lover of King's books, I can't believe that I had overlooked this one. I recently brought it from a charity shop and thoroughly enjoyed it. Admittedly you do have to suspend reality, but what King ultimately creates, as he does with so many of his books, is a story of good over evil, love, friendship and self- sacrifice. It's also nice to see an older person being the central character for a change and King creates a very believable character- old in the body, but not old in the soul.

Please don't listen to the negative reviews- this is a fantastic book. It will stay in your mind long after you have finished it.