Insomnia

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Stephen King: Insomnia (2011, Highbridge Company)

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English language

Published May 14, 2011 by Highbridge Company.

ISBN:
978-1-59887-765-6
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5 stars (1 review)

Ralph Roberts has an incurable case of insomnia, but lack of sleep is the least of his worries. Each night he stays awake, he witnesses more of the odd activity taking place in his town after dark than he wants to know. 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. 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. What does it all mean? Ralph doesn't quite know. 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, …

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5 stars

While Insomnia is a bit different than early works by King, it is written in his unique and expansive storytelling style. The book starts out with some mundane people with slowly growing insomnia, and evolves into people who can see and eventually affect reality in unique ways. The book also bridges into a bigger storyline that you will find in other early King works. I loved the tale and the way he depicted the characters and their interactions with this supernatural world they have found.a