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Description Stephen King returns to Derry in Insomnia, the town many will remember from The ... Ralph Roberts has a problem: he doesn't sleep very well anymore. Ralph falls asleep at 11:30 every night, but wakes up a little earlier every morning: 3:15 ..., 3:02 ..., 2:45 ..., 2:15. The books call it "premature awakening." For Ralph, it means staying in hell. He begins to see frightening images that seem too real to be hallucinations. He sees small, bald doctors breaking into the house of his neighbor May Locher in the middle of the night with scissors at the ready ... Review (s) NBD | Biblion Review A friendly young man suddenly becomes the leader of a very aggressive activist group that attacks abortion clinics and stay-of-my-homes. The protagonist, an old widower, sees the developments in his town with sorrow. So far it is a fascinating social realist novel about anti-feminist violence in an American provincial town. After that, the book becomes a horror novel. The old man suffers from an abnormal form of insomnia that makes him more and more vital. During one of his awake nights, he discovers that there are supernatural beings active in the town that can only be seen by him and some other elders. The story now gets more and more fantastic: King throws all the brakes of his fantasy, with the result that the book loses all credibility. Moreover, the momentum disappears from the story. Like almost all of King's later works, the book is far too thick. Pocket edition, very small print. (NBD | Biblion Review, J.A. Dautzenberg)
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