Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: An overly long disappointment

As usual, the writing is stellar in INSOMNIA, but the quality of the writing isn't enough of a reason to wade through a book with a modest premise that's basically overwritten and padded everywhere it can be padded. King's basic weakness as a writer is that he provides the reader with EVERY thought the protagonist has at EVERY turn of the story. This pushes what could have been a basically sound story at maybe 350 pages to an almost 700 overly-packed monster. King is better when he is working short and concise, as in FIRESTARTER, DEAD ZONE, and the stories in FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT. Only die-hard fans of King will like this book. But for me, I ended up skimming the last half. And I _hate_ doing that. I like to honor the words writers write, but I don't like writers who are thieves of time--_my_ time.