Great Story

I Love this book, I've read it a number of times and listening to it was amazing. Having an older man read it for it quite well, it's a shame about the musical scores in it though. Horrible jangling scores that hurt the ears and rarely fit into the story.

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Turn that damn “music” off

The BIG and only drawback about this audiobook is the offensive annoying discordant blasts of “music” interspersed throughout. This does not add to the story or performance in any way, apart from in a detrimental one.
Went close to ruining the experience

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best audiobook I've heard.

Was read spectacularly, edited amazingly with the added great eery music to areas. just wow.

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Took me a while to get into

This story is very busy and an interview I read with King had him saying this book tried to hard. That said, it is exciting to go back and learn more about Derry (especially with the slight hints towards It).

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Brilliant

loved this book. Had read the hard copy years ago and love it then but the narrative gave it so much depth. could easily listen to it over & over. Stephen King is a genius.

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The music/sound effects aren’t too bad

Another reviewer called the distorted guitar “screeching” if I recall. I listened to Insomnia through speakers, headphones, and just playing through the iPhone speakers and it was only really bad in some moments when the volume was turned way up with headphones in. I actually thought the “screeching” music was quite fitting — probably what I’d use for a S King narrated book to be honest.

Overall, it’s a good book. Some crossovers with his other works but I wouldn’t call it one of his best. Glad to take this beast down from the ‘unread’ bookshelf after several years gathering dust.

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Why the music?!?

God awful music bites throughout the story. Too loud. Painful to the eyes and adds nothing to the story.

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Music over narration

The Music over the book story narration is too far loud and not needed.
Would be much better without it.

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Horrible music

The music should be taken off, it is too loud over the narrator and easily gives you a headache. Made it hard to keep with the book.

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Disappointing

This is my favourite Stephen King novel, one of the few books I have read more than once. I was so excited when I found the audio book. Imagine the disappointment and disbelief when the awful, loud, LSD inspired music and sound effects started cropping up. It actually drowned out the narrator at times. I would like a word with the rank amateur who ruined this experience for me. I persevered through the whole story because I love it so much, but whenever that noise came on I was close to tears. The sound engineers or whatever they're called ought to be ashamed of themselves for screwing this up in such a basic way.

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