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11/22/63
by Stephen King
Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
“ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTS RANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED. WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE IT BACK?
In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King—who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer—takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.
It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him away—a gruesome, harrowing story about the night more than fifty years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his life—like Harry’s, like America’s in 1963—turning on a dime. Not much later his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination.
So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson, in a different world of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere. From the dank little city of Derry, Maine (where there’s Dunning business to conduct), to the warmhearted small town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love, every turn is leading eventually, of course, to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where the past becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful, and where history might not be history anymore. Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying.”
Oh my gosh, this book is beyond amazing. Not a 5 star book for me, but very close and I’ll get into that soon. First of all, I never read a Stephen King novel before this and I always said I would NEVER read a Stephen King novel. However, I saw this book on sale on Amazon Kindle and I was like fine I’ll just get it. Then, I am doing Playbookers on Facebook and a few people wanted to buddy read the book, so I decided why not. I am so glad I picked up this book. It sucks you in and never lets you go as you read. You are so invested in Jake/George’s life and is rooting for him to change the past and to have a love life. You want the best. Also, you keep thinking what is going to happen next? I did dock it half a star because I do feel like it did loose a little steam towards the end. Also, I have been watching the show as well and love the book way more. You all need this book in your life!
“ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTS RANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED. WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE IT BACK?
In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King—who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer—takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.
It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him away—a gruesome, harrowing story about the night more than fifty years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his life—like Harry’s, like America’s in 1963—turning on a dime. Not much later his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination.
So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson, in a different world of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere. From the dank little city of Derry, Maine (where there’s Dunning business to conduct), to the warmhearted small town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love, every turn is leading eventually, of course, to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where the past becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful, and where history might not be history anymore. Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying.”
Oh my gosh, this book is beyond amazing. Not a 5 star book for me, but very close and I’ll get into that soon. First of all, I never read a Stephen King novel before this and I always said I would NEVER read a Stephen King novel. However, I saw this book on sale on Amazon Kindle and I was like fine I’ll just get it. Then, I am doing Playbookers on Facebook and a few people wanted to buddy read the book, so I decided why not. I am so glad I picked up this book. It sucks you in and never lets you go as you read. You are so invested in Jake/George’s life and is rooting for him to change the past and to have a love life. You want the best. Also, you keep thinking what is going to happen next? I did dock it half a star because I do feel like it did loose a little steam towards the end. Also, I have been watching the show as well and love the book way more. You all need this book in your life!