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Insomnia: Complete & Unabridged (Hodder headline audiobboks) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephen King
Creator: Eli Wallach
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 1179563
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
Number Of Items: 18
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 6.1 x 5.7 x 4.4
ISBN: 185998391X
EAN: 9781859983911
ASIN: 185998391X
Publication Date: July 20, 1995
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 Insomnia December 4, 2008
Mr. Gr Leeburn
Juts finished reading it for the second time last night. It was the first Stephen King book I've ever read, and it blew me away. Personally my favourite book of all time after reading it and still stands true today and I have now finished 99% of Stephen Kings books.
Its a slow burning deal of an old man who loses his wife and begins to suffer Insomnia which gets worse and worse until he starts seeing some very strange things. I agree the start is quite slow but I find this to be a real positive as King beautifully delivers his characters to us giving them a real life feel as if we really do know them and care for them. He does this really well in a lot of his books especially IT.
Anyway dont want to spoil what happens in the book but it builds up and up to a truely magnificent climax and there wont be a dry eye in the house after you finish the last page. If you have havent read this before and even if your not a King fan please try this book, one of the finest pieces of fictional writing ever.
 Padded out with Filler or Filled out with Padding? March 9, 2008
B. J. Crossley (England)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
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 January 18, 2008
Misery (Brum, England.)
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..... January 11, 2008
Bezerus Bezby (Leeds, UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
...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.
What an imagination November 16, 2007
Lou-Lou (Leeds, UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you're expecting a classic horror story, look elsewhere. It's basically about an old guy who finds himself unable to sleep, and the strange (very, very strange!) consequences of his insomnia. It requires time at the start to fully set the scene. Some say this is too long, I think it is just right.
I became totally absorbed in the book and the lives of the characters. I love the way Stephen King is so descriptive, it makes everything in the book seem so real and believeable. How does he think of these things?
Pure genius!
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