![]() I read this because it was one of the last books by Stephen King that I had not read and I am a huge fan. Despite the three stars, I definitely suggest reading it (just make sure you have already read It, The Stand, Bag of Bones.). So to sum up: not King's best, but a good, fun read. King is one of the authors that I just flat out love to read he is imaginative, his voice is distinct and he consistently reinvents the fantasy (because this book is more fantasy than horror) genre in very exciting ways. I listed the good things above, but you really just can't say enough about King's easy prose style. ![]() I am focusing here on some of the bad things. I was compelled by the characters in the book, I felt empathy for them and I felt that the book didn't need this kind of deus ex machina to stress the importance of the climax, to make it integral to the continuation of the King Uber-story. The climax of the book turns out to actually be about two figures from the Dark Tower series which kind of annoyed me. There is also a lot of exposition involved, a good deal of fleshing out the world of the Dark Tower series, which is a little frustrating. The dialogue in Insomnia is a choppy (which isn't unusual) and the pace of the story seems to start out slow and then to fluctuate back and forth between slow and quick. But Insomnia just does not feel as tight as The Running Man or as compelling as Bag of Bones, which I feel really is King's best work that I have read. Insomnia is very obviously a 1990's King he writes with the kind of dry, New England wit that has come to distinguish him. The recent King novels that I read before this were Rage, The Long Walk, The Running Man and Bag of Bones. Still, compared to the other King that I have read, I would rank it somewhere in the middle. ![]() ![]() King is a masterful storyteller the narrative voice, the compelling main characters and the absolutely unstoppable plot are all trademark King features. ![]()
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