The "three little doctors" gimmick makes a mockery of what had until that point been a passable story. Spoilers: Having gone through the initial buildup of all the bizarre behaviour of some of the cast, and the main characters gaining what they believe to be magical powers through their insomnia, we come to find out this is all caused by three wee cartoon-esq characters. One final note though before I get to the spoilers this could be the finest book ever written, and I'd STILL have to recommend never buying it because of that godawful audio track. However, when it gets going it becomes exceptionally stupid, and increasingly difficult to suspend your disbelief. The book gets off to a really interesting start, and has a decent hook to draw you in. Stephen King can do, and has done, much better than this in his career. To be honest if I was the editor this book wouldn't have been published. If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Insomnia? What aspect of Eli Wallach’s performance might you have changed? Has Insomnia put you off other books in this genre? On top of this, the added "music" track is incredibly loud and obnoxious, detracts from the story every single time it is used, and actually drowns out the actor as he mumbles up a storm. It becomes more and more ridiculous as it meanders its way through both nice, touching, scenes, and book destroying plot content. Story-wise it is overly-long, and far too drawn out for the quality of the content. Honestly, I'm a big fan of Stephen King, but I don't think anyone will enjoy this particular audiobook. If this book wasn’t for you, who do you think might enjoy it more? And yes, I realise that's the point - the lead character is functioning on increasingly fewer and fewer hours' sleep, the music is no doubt meant to mirror his frazzled nerves - but whoever thought this ear drum-jangling cacophony was a good idea and would compliment the actor's reading - it damn well doesn't! It's discordant and unnecessarily loud and it's driving me up the wall. except for the incredibly intrusive incidental music that cruelly punctuates the reading at far too frequent and inopportune moments. And it's just as enjoyable to listen to as to read. Finding it here and read by Eli Wallach - a 'proper' Hollywood actor of a classic era - made its purchase a no brainer. Insomnia is a favourite of mine and I've read it a couple of times. All the actors that spring to mind for Ralph are too old (or dead) - Jimmy Stewart would have been super. When a certain character got his comeuppance.Ĭould you see Insomnia being made into a movie or a TV series? Who would the stars be?ĭefinitely, as with a gazillion other Stephen King books. Sadly the memorable moments are the most frustrating (see comments below). What was one of the most memorable moments of Insomnia? It's a lengthy and enjoyable reading which in my opinion makes this purchase money well spent Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not? Great story, great reading - dreadful music Torn between genuinely wanting to listen to the rest of the story and driving my car straight off a cliff whenever "ol' forky" would start up I thought it the safest option. Its a really different sound, he attacks guitars with forks." 2)The producer of the audio book is actually a failed writer and, jealous of Mr King's achievements, has set about in a life long vendetta to destroy him.starting with the audio books. He hasn't worked in while but thats mostly so he can work on his music. 1) The musician is a relative of some well meaning member of the production team and got the gig because they were trying to cut them a break. I can only think of two reasons why someone would want to destroy Mr King's book in this manner. So why WOULDN'T you ladle on someone plucking guitar strings with a fork over the beginning of EVERY CHAPTER. I mean, its not like he's built a reputation on writing thrillers so immersive that Hollywood will happily spend millions trying to transfer his books into movies. Right enough, Stephen King is well know for writing bland and boring books. What I'd like to know is what, exactly, compelled the production team to overlay "suspenseful" muzak over the narrator to the point where we can't actually hear what he's reading. I don't normally write reviews for audio books.even when they are not that great, but the production on this book is so astoundingly poor that I felt I had to. Bad production spoils another great audio book
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