I thought Insomnia was great, too. King’s best works are the ones you fall into and forget where you are while you’re reading them, and Insomnia was one of those for me. But, man, he can be heavy-handed with the political messages.
Next month, CBS is doing a 13-part series based on Under the Dome, one of King’s more recent novels. I enjoyed the book, and I want to see what the show will be like, but I hope the politics will be left out. In the book, the main villain can’t stand Obama.
There was a key reference to Roland and the Dark Tower in “Insomnia”.
The boy who was supposed to live was drawing a picture of a king and a tower. The mother asked who it was and the kid said “It’s king Roland”.