Insomnia by Stephen King
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Re-Read.

Okay, so who knows? I may be the only one that was THRILLED by this novel.

I mean, sure, it FEELS like it's just a novel about an old, old man who, after losing his wife, starts seeing auras and shit and gets embroiled in plots to save innocents from anti-life pro-lifers.

BUT.

Muahahahahahaha I'll just say this: if you're a Dark Tower fan, or specifically, a SK worldbuilding fan, complete with a huge wall with pushpins and string and a wild, wild look in your eyes, then this particular 1994 book is a TRIP.

I think I could easily call this a sequel to IT. So many characters and references to IT show up, not to mention that this takes place in Derry 8 years after the main flood. There's no return of Pennywise, mind you, and while Derry shows up in a number of SK's novels, this place takes the throne for nasty-ass-places-to-live in any universe.

And as for the DT references, no other SK novel goes quite this far to step into Mid World, or traveling the KA, or even seeing SK's greatest evil, than Insomnia.

Sure, it goes OUT THERE, but I appreciate it for exactly what it is: a pure Dark Fantasy with horror elements.

Eat up, DT fans.

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