Insomnia by Stephen King Book Review & Reaction | A Great Read...If You've Read The Dark Tower First

Mike heads back to Derry, Maine to discuss his thoughts on the 1994 thriller Insomnia by Stephen King.

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0:00 Introduction & Excerpt Reading
2:20 Background Info
3:17 What Is It About?
4:26 What Makes It Good or Bad?
10:46 Why You Should Read It
12:09 Final Thoughts
13:50 Multiverse Connections
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[caseyh]

I've never read any dark tower books and still bloody LOVED this book. I feel like Stephen King gets my lifelong fear of aging and the abyss and the sadness of youth passing. I really enjoyed the main characters being older people, sort of gave me hope that my own adventures aren't over lol. I don't know, I just really love this book.

[jcdenton]

Finished this book 5 minutes ago. I cried... That ending destroyed me. What an incredible book!

[cathytrottier]

Insomnia is my favorite book from Mr.King, how can you not love Ralph Roberts . The first time I read it I cried like a baby at the end.

[HankFacepunch]

I read this brick over two days on Christmas break of 1994. What a great book. Didn't catch all of it because I hadn't read The Dark Tower, but I still loved it.

Gotta read this one again.

[Aluminatihusker]

I always enjoy your intros Mike! With the reading from the book, background music, and visuals, it makes me want to dive right back into reading (not like I have a problem with that lol). Great review Mike! Insomnia is a good read. It’s a slow burn, but the payoff was good! Overall, I still think it’s a mid-tier King book. It’s not great, but not bad. It’s worth reading though imo!

[KalleVilenius]

Read this back in 2011, between I think the 3rd and 4th Dark Tower books. After finishing it, I started waking up at around 4 AM for no discernible reason. That was a spooky summer. The only time I had the displeasure of hallucinations from lack of sleep was in the army, just these shapes flittering at the edge of vision. Weird experience.
Guess that makes this the only Stephen King book to ever keep me up at night for reasons other than binge reading it.

[knittymama]

I read Insomnia when it came out. At that point I had decided not to continue Dark Tower after reading Wastelands. I LOVED Insomnia though. I realized that it had references to DT and I wish I had gone back to it, but I'm there now. I just finished Insomnia again (for like the 4th time ever) and just started Wizard & Glass for the first time ever. I probably wouldn't have gotten back into it if not for your channel. Thanks, man!

[PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy]

Awesome to learn about yet another King book I’ll need to read someday. Thanks, Mike!

[thebrothersgwynne]

Every time you put out one of these videos I feel that need to dive into some more Stephen King! I'll be reading Carrie soon, as well as Different Seasons :)
Will

[alynam]

I read this back in 2015, having only read DT 1-3 in high school, so as you said, there were a lot that went over my head. I knew enough to know it was Dark Tower references, but not to what extent. Now that I've read the DT all through, I'm ready for an Insomnia re-read one of these days, to truly appreciate it

[cristy-annhoughton]

When you lose a spouse you feel like either that your sleepwalking in a nightmare that you can't wake up from or it feels like your world stops

[noddypie]

Thank you sir it's the best and most underrated Stephen King review channel I've ever Come through...thanks ..

[davidphillips]

Damn man, you put a LOT of work into these videos. Cool stuff!

[beneriksen]

I just finished this 10 minutes ago, my first King novel. I absolutely loved it, though the multiverse connections obviously are lost to me. The Dark Tower stuff is intriguing. I just purchased The Shining to read next.

[Chicagocanine]

Insomnia was one of my favorite King books when I was younger, and I’m pretty sure I read it several times before I read the Dark Tower series. I like weird stuff though.
IMO Insomnia is one of those books that are really hard to put down.

[calista]

See, I read this after reading DT 1, 2, 3 and I thought this was a great book. I know it's long, but I never understood why people didn't like it. It's great to hear your change of mind. I love your King Reviews! They are great and I vote to go back to having them once a month. I miss them.

[bonniek]

Just ordered Insomnia based off this video. I finished Drawing of the Three and am reading Salem’s Lot now before moving to The Waste Lands! So happy to finally be joining the Dark Tower crowd 🤩

[michaelp]

Mike Hanlon makes a fairly significant appearance, so there is a Losers Club appearance. It also mentions Benjamin Hanscom as the architect for the Derry Community Center.

[oldforestroad]

Sure do love your honest reviews Mike. Thank you.
...it is so quiet and still at 3:00 a.m.

[Michael_L_Morrison]

I had this book for almost twenty years before I read it a few years back. It was great! Slow and deliberate at first, but not annoying, the story took shape and really blossomed. It was both very enjoyable and very sad, but a good read nonetheless.