Episode 144-The Ending of Insomnia

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Tv & Film, Arts, Arts:books, Books

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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It's one of my favs! But does it have a good ending? Find out this week!

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0:01.0	Hello everyone, welcome to the Stephen King cast, One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.
0:05.0	Once I reviewed each of his works in the chronological order of publication, but Ka is a wheel, it all goes round again, and here I am once more on a new phase of the journey to examine each of the endings of the works of Stephen King, to determine whether or not King deserves his reputation for having an inability to successfully land his endings.
0:25.0	The focus of the podcast is going to be to examine the climax, falling action, and resolution of the endings to each of his novels and break it down by character, themes, conflict, and plot to determine whether or not it meets the
0:37.8	criteria of
0:38.7	being an
0:39.2	objectively good
0:40.2	ending.
0:41.7	I will also
0:42.2	weigh in
0:42.8	on whether or
0:43.6	not I
0:44.0	happen to
0:44.6	personally,
0:46.3	subjectively,
0:47.2	like the ending.
0:49.3	And today,
0:50.4	I'm here
0:50.9	to discuss
0:51.4	the ending
0:52.0	of insomnia.
0:54.7	Insomnia, a novel that is not widely adored by King fans out there.
1:05.0	There are definitely a lot of detractors.
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