I've read every single one of King's novels (up to Duma Key) so I do have a good basis of comparison. Ok, I'm the newbie and I guess I'm going to be the first person in this thread to post *not* liking Insomnia. I don't remember feeling at all sympathetic towards Atropos. And, yes, Atropos was a fabulous little villain, though King usually makes his bad guys more sympathetic. I escpecially loved the way he described that brittle, unreal fuzziness you get when chronically sleep deprived. He just described the feeling of being bone tired and yet not at all sleepy (a concept my husband can just not understand) way too well. I have had insomnia most of my adult life, and suspect that Sai King has experienced at least a bout or two of it. With very few exceptions, it's King's longer works that always become my favorites. Also, as a lifelong sufferer of sleeping problems, I found Ralph's issues in the first portion of the book well done by King. Atropos is one of the best (if not the best) antagonists in the King universe. The character development is thorough and well executed. I love pretty much everything about Insomnia. I think the pace of this book is perfect. The Crimson King seemed an even bigger deal in this book than in the Dark Tower books, simply because was just drawn away by patrick while he waited at the top of the tower, I thought, wow.you really aren't that bad after all. I liked most of the charecters and of course it was in Derry so it was interesting. It made sense and I bet it was hard to describe those levels, but he introduced them to us in a way that was relateable. I did like this story a lot, I liked the elements of the 3 bald doctors, and how King managed to describe the different "levels" that were traveled and the confusion of the auras. Other than that, the greenman did confuse me. ahh I just wish it would be over now, but I bet it won't! Maybe I'm not giving him enough credit, or have just been picking up the books he keeps writing about LOTR in. Also, I just picked up Duma Key, and within the first 30 or so pages there's a dog named Gandalf. But I don't like how it's hobbit this, One ring to rule them all that, and then of course we know about his whole preface to the Dark Tower series. I have been obsessed with those stories for a couple of my childish years, so I am a fan also.
I liked this book a lot, but another thing that I really is drawing attention away from the story for me is King's facination with the LOTR. I just finished this book but I don't like to think that so many possible charecters or elements in King's books could be King himself (people thought about him being in the tower, etc). And I think part of the reason I enjoyed it so much was that I kept seeing myself in it. I never noticed any slowness like everyone's been talking about (though I was prepared for just such). Thank you for finally starting this thread! I was wondering when someone would, because Insomnia is my favorite non-Dark Tower book by Stephen King-and I was expecting to dislike it, especially since Stephen King wasn't as pleased with it as he might have been.
Although I heard somewhere Stephen King himself said he was a tad dissapointed with Insomnia. It was also a very thought provoking book. I think the Dark Tower connection was done very well. The part when he sees the Bald Doctors actually scared me and it takes a lot for a book to scare me. Once Ralph starts seeing the auras and the doctors then it becomes very interesting. It starts off slow, but the beginning is very well written and helps introduce you to the characters. I see it top many people's lists of thier least favorite SK novels. It seems like everyone seems to dislike Insomnia for some reason.
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