Thursday, November 24, 2011

11/22/63 by Stephen King


You will NOT be disappointed by King's newest novel, 11/22/63.

Jake Epping is a deeply developed and realistic character. The story jumps off the pages. Each character, street and storyline is "alive".

This story centers around the Epping's travels into the past in an attempt to prevent he assassination of JFK. As Epping travels into the past, he changes the lives of others, each leaving a rippling affect....

King's time travel rules are handled in a believable manner. You will feel as though you are along for the ride. Putting down this book will be impossible, you will itch and ache in anticipation of what will happen next! There are no slow moments.

There is absolutely no way to predict the outcome of this book! It is a fantastic read. King throws in a few characters from previous books in a seamless and brilliant manner.

King is a master storyteller and this is perhaps his best non-horror book yet! Buy .. Borrow it, Check it out... GET it NOw.

Grade: A+


Overview: [B&N]
ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTSRANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENTKENNEDY 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.

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