• Insomnia

  • By: Stephen King
  • Narrated by: Eli Wallach
  • Length: 25 hrs and 39 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (43 ratings)

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Insomnia

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Eli Wallach
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Publisher's summary

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

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Great story and narration. God awful music.

Great story, rivetting. Eli Wallach's voice is a joy to listen to. The only thing was the music, it was terrible and inappropriate. Marred an otherwise excellent read of a great book.

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Too much music

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.

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Good narrator, good story, crappy music

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

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The story makes up for the horrible music

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

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Mostly great

I really liked the story and the narrator was good but the discordant music at the end of chapters was really annoying and unnecessary. It tried too hard to be spooky but was just obnoxious.

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Joyful

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

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Wonderful

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.

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Wonderful story!

A fine work by mr. King. The narrator does s great job, but unfortunately he is sometimes drowned out by the at times aggressive intermezzi. Through some openings it's nigh impossible to hear what's being said, as some fantastically annoying electric guitar wails across the entire spectrum.

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Just not that captivating

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.

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Nice yarn. Solid Stephen King. Agonizing music

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

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