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Insomnia

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Eli Wallach
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You'll lose a lot of sleep.... Ralph does. At first he starts waking up earlier. And earlier. Then the hallucinations start - the colours, shapes and strange auras. Not to mention the bald doctors who always turn up at the scene of a death.

That's when Ralph begins to lose a lot more than sleep. When he begins to understand why his hitherto mild-mannered friend, Ed, is getting out of control - dangerously so. And why his hometown is about to become the new Armageddon....

©1994 Stephen King (P)1994 Penguin Highbridge Horror Suspense Thriller & Suspense
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The story is great, but between every chapter or perhaps tense scene, this bloody annoying guitar/violin screams at you, drowning out the narrator. I missed a fair bit of the end and start of chapters by having to skip forward to avoid the noise.

Great story, frustrating music!

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I've read a number of King titles recently and enjoyed them all. This one wasn't bad. It just isn't especially good. I kept finding myself drifting off thinking about other things. The narrator is top notch however.

Just not that captivating

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The music is horrible and too loud but I would give 6 even 7 stars for the story.

The story makes up for the horrible music

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Great, exception is the stupid random music they put in. please stop that. It takes you out of the story.

Good narrator, good story, crappy music

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Good story, a bit slow but with a good ending, classic Stephen King type of novel. Eli Wallach's narration is very good too but the underlying music can be really disruptive and overpowers the narration at times.

music is a bit overpowering

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really gripoing all the way through the kind of book i could listen to again

brilliant

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Stephen King is my favourite author, has been for 46 years. I have read this book several times and listening to it has given me an extra perspective. I enjoyed it all.

Wonderful

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What three words best describe Eli Wallach’s voice?

Talented voice artist and very easy to listen to.

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There is terrible music all through the performance. I assume it is between chapters. It is distracting, detracts from the performance and ruins it. It is also far too loud for the voice of Eli Wallach to be heard clearly. There should be a warning that there is music introduced to the book.

Too much music

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This is one of my favorite Stephen King books. The only thing that annoyed the crap out of me was the awful, screeching music

Joyful

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The music(?) interspersed between chapters and some scenes dominates the result
Don't listen while riding or driving or operating equipment. Some parts are just annoying others are downright painful. Ironically if you read this as you go to sleep... well the effect is counterproductive.

Oh and the the story under all that is quite good.
There are some Dark Tower cross overs. They don't contribute much to story

Nice yarn. Solid Stephen King. Agonizing music

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