![]() Then there's the slam-bang final 300 pages, in themselves a novel's worth of excitement as Ralph battles demonic entities to prevent a holocaust in his small town of Derry, Maine (site of It). Notable is a rare septuagenarian hero, recently widowed Ralph Roberts, whose broodings on old age immerse readers into the aging psyche almost as clearly as other King heroes have revealed the minds of children. There's much of everything in these 800 pages, including the worthy. This is the other King-the Grand Vizier of Verbosity who gave us It, The Tommyknockers and Needful Things. It really helped draw me into the story.Forget the lean, mean King of Misery, Gerald's Game and Dolores Claiborne. References galore to a time in town where I’d guess the main character wasn’t much older than the kids of IT if at all. The library that Bill designed that was eventually built? Mentioned and in town. The gay young man that dies in IT? The main character remembers that and mentions it in the towns history. ![]() I also love the fact that there was enough continuity between IT and Insomnia that I could take some joy in the references. I loved seeing a view of Derry, Maine that wasn’t the view of it given to us in the events of IT. They offer him the goal of saving a young boy who will one day be a world changing artist and can’t pass at the age of 4 in an abortion clinic attack. ![]() He eventually begins seeing things and slowly learns through the events of the book that a group of beings are basically preventing him from sleeping so he can see and interact with their plane of existence. He also doesn’t expect that any of his friends are also struggling to sleep and weathers their comments. We start out with the main character having a weird bit of insomnia after the passing of his wife and he’s trying every home cure in the book to see if he can get sleep again. The book starts out a little slow I must admit. Example: Hello.Įxplanation of our link flairs Join our /r/bookclub Don't forget /new! Filter by Flair AMA Weekly Thread Mod PostĪma Check out this week's Thread Calendar
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