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- Narrated by: Eli Wallach
- Length: 25 hrs and 39 mins
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A number-one national best seller
Since his wife died, Ralph Roberts has been having trouble sleeping. Each night he wakes up a bit earlier until he's barely sleeping at all. During his late-night walks, he observes some strange things going on in Derry, Maine. He sees colored ribbons streaming from people's heads, two strange little men wandering around town after dark, and more. He begins to suspect that these visions are something more than hallucinations brought on by lack of sleep.
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- joanne
- 2018-05-02
Not sure about this one
I had a really hard time getting into this one. The musical interludes were way to loud! I disliked them thoroughly! When you listen to audio books with ear buds like I do, the speaking parts would be fine and then the music would blast so loud sometimes... Not enjoyable. There was a nod to the dark tower.... Which I haven't read but maybe I will try yet. I'm really not sure about this one, I found myself not paying attention to it a lot and not really missing anything. I may return this one!
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- Alex
- 2020-01-04
Good story, great narration, awful production
Insomnia is a cool story from King that ties very well into the King multiverse. Wallach does a fantastic job bringing the story to life but the production is very distracting and totally breaks the immersion into the story. Seemingly every 5 - 10 minutes you get loud music and just horrible sounds playing over the Eli's narration which just seems disrespectful to the awesome work he does.
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- Howard
- 2019-07-31
A weak Stephen King book. Bad audio production
I found this, unlike most of Stephen kings books, almost tiresome and did not keep my attention.
The near ration by Eli Wallach was OK, but the use of music at times was very distracting and took away hugely from the book. The music over powered the near ration. And was particularly irritating.
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- Jenna Brake
- 2018-10-28
Great book!
I very much enjoyed this story and it’s connections to the dark tower. My only issue with it is the music that was played over the reading in some areas made the story hard to listen to.
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- Sally
- 2019-05-21
meh
the music was absolutely horrendous, completely overriding the readers voice. It was annoying and nerve rattling music. not one of my favorite Stephen King books.
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- Cass
- 2019-12-20
The sound design is absurd
Decent book but this is the third time I have almost given up because of the ridiculous sound design. Not a big fan of music in audiobooks, but this is insane. The story is good, the narration is great, but nobody needs random overdriven electric guitar in an audiobook.
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- J.Nickel
- 2019-02-25
Sound mixing is terrible.
Story is an interesting premise and it does have an introduction to the Dark Tower series. The musical interludes are too loud, cover up some of the narration, and incredibly grating on ones nerves. I understand that it's done to mimic the feeling of the haze of prolonged sleep deprivation, but it is still a bit overdone. Eli does a great performance, but its marred by instrumentals screaming over the words.
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- D Michelle B
- 2018-11-26
Music is so, so bad
Love everything King so of course tried to love this story. I don't mind the narrator's voice at all but I'm very annoyed by the music inserted throughout unfortunately.
update- Finally finished this book. That was a long and painful experience. The music is so excessive and this book is very dry.
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- EDWARD J PRICHARD
- 2023-06-17
Loud discordant music
I like the story, but the music is painfully loud.
The deliberately discordant music was probably created in order to convey some legitimate artistic quality, but it's just horrible.
Imagine a Grade 8 music class while the teacher is out of the room, with all the students poorly playing different pieces of music that aren't made to go together, all slightly off key, and some making other random sounds that barely count as music. Then imagine dropping a bunch of scared, angry street cats on top of the instruments and students, and the cats are clawing at the drums, the violins, the guitars, a banjo, and the chalkboard at the same time. Now imagine trying to listen to a soft voice telling you a story and all that chaos suddenly happens, and the soft voice keeps going, simultaneously with the noise.
Next time you should get a few people to listen to it before publishing it.
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- Melissa
- 2023-04-09
it was okay
I started off liking it, but I was kinda bored through the middle and the end was very weird. it didn't make me feel anything which I'm disappointed by. I hated the music on the audio book.
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