11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King (EPUB)

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One of the Ten Best Books of The New York Times Book Review Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Soon to be a miniseries from Hulu starring James FrancoThis enhanced ebook edition contains a 13-minute film, written and narrated by Stephen King and enhanced with historic footage from CBS News, that will take you back—as King’s novel does—to Kennedy era America. On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination—a thousand page tour de force. Following his massively successful novel Under the Dome, King sweeps readers back in time to another moment—a real life moment—when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history. Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk. Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life – a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. A tribute to a simpler era and a devastating exercise in escalating suspense, 11/22/63 is Stephen King at his epic best.

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⭐I am a big Stephen King fan but it took me a while to pick this one up because, while I love his long novels like The Stand and It, they are a lot of work to get through and their un-put-down-ableness and length usually disrupt my life, even if it’s a re-read. If you’re in the same boat, do not worry about that, this book is easy to follow and it’s a pleasure to eat up this feast of a novel. In fact, I’d suggest you take your time. It’s the voyage, not the destination, and this voyage is worth savoring.Unlike his previous 1,000+ page long novels, 11/22/63 does not focus on a team of protagonists and an army of antagonists, it just focuses on one guy, George Amberson (his real name is Jake, but he gets to live his best life as George). There are characters who we do need to keep track of but not many. And the ending to this novel is more poignant than anything King had written before, IMO, but I understand Joe Hill gets some credit for that. I also felt that this isn’t just a novel, it’s also in a way one of King’s short story collections. So many little episodes in this novel could have been its own short story, especially in those instances where George did something amazing as a teacher. Whether it’s getting a frightened kid to act in a play, holding a fundraiser for an injured student, or two chaperones being the highlight of a school dance, each of those tales works on its own, and helps us fall in love with Jodie, Texas right along with George/Jake.Also, as much as I love Derry and the books that take place there, I hope King never ever takes me back there again.There’s a reason this book is at the top of so many King fans’ rankings. Trust them. 5/5 stars on a normal book scale, 5/5 stars on a Stephen King scale.

⭐I swore off Stephen King novels in 1984 after reading Pet Sematary when my eldest child was 2 …and the little boy in the book was 2. But a dear friend recommended 11/22/63 and insisted I would love it. She was right. I literally could not put it down. (Stayed up all night reading it.) I remember the assassination of President Kennedy and his funeral even though I was barely school age. What if… we’ve all wondered. Read this book!! HIGHLY recommend.

⭐The time travel universe, The cause and effect of going back in time to change the future. It’s all there against the tantalizing assassination of Kennedy with Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone assassination.Had to skip over some of the longer, lingering, and (to me) almost pointless passages. If your looking for a “proof positive” expose’ of the Oswald/lone gunman theories, it’s not here. That fallow field has been tilled, tilled, and tilled again.If you want some insights into how Oswald may have been handled into being at the right place at the wrong time, there are some clues. But alas, not explored as they lay outside the narrative.What is left is a thoughtful and intellectually chewy exploration of time travel in a setting of multiple universes.But it lands as a very human story of love found, then lost, then found again.

⭐I was reluctant to give Stephen King another go, after my experience with his novel “It”. But this book has been on my radar for awhile now, and after hearing a recent review for it on YouTube, I decided to give it a go. And you know what? I loved it, and when I say that I mean I really, really loved it. I liked his particular twist/take on time travel. And as someone who enjoys history/historical fiction, it just made me love and enjoy this book so much more. Although, I will say JFK’S assaination has never been of particular interest to me one way or the other, I prefer to go back farther than recent times for my historical fix. Nor was I even alive then, I’m a 90s child, and I have never been able to fully understand the fascination with the Kennedys. Still don’t, at least not completely. That said, time travel, is an interesting and tricky concept, and Jake/George-our main character learns that trying to change things in the past is not easy, doing so often comes at a price, sometimes a very high price. This too, Jake/George learns….the hard way. It raised a lot of questions, at least for me. Namely, if you could go back in the past and prevent a terrible event from occuring, would you do it? How does that affect the future? Or the present where you came from? What does it cost one who attempts or would attempt such a thing? I was riveted by this story and yet it still ended way too soon, and I found the ending to be very bittersweet, and yet it was also fitting, if not perfect, given the premise of this novel. Very well-written, with realistic characters, he also managed to make me feel as though I was with Jake/George, both in Maine and in Texas. I felt as though I have lived in Jodie, especially with Jake/George during the time he spent there. I liked Sadie. I wish, well you’ll see. If I say what I wish, it would spoil the plot too much, and I don’t want to do that. But I did like her and most of the people in Jodie, for that matter. The people in Maine and other parts of Texas, not so much, perhaps with the exception of Mike “Silent Mike, Holy Mike,” it took me a minute to figure out which Christmas carol he was referring to there. All in all I loved, enjoyed and will be recommending this one for a good long while, I think. I may also try another of his novels somewhere down the line.

⭐In the 80’s I couldn’t get enough of Steve King novels. I read most of them up until Tommyknockers and then I called it quits, party due to burn out and partly due to my diminishing enjoyment of his story telling. When 11/22/63 popped up in my suggested reading list and I read the overview I was intrigued and S. King a shot for the first time in almost 30 years. Boy am I glad I did. This is a great novel. I have read several time travel novels and this and Reply by Ken Grimwood are the only two where I felt they handled the dynamics of navigating time travel well. So you get a well done time travel story, a really well done personal relationship story and an interest peek into the Kennedy assassination.

⭐I used to read a ton of Stephen King books but had gotten away from them for quite awhile. It was nice to enjoy one of his books again. Experiencing his writing style was like visiting an old friend.King has a habit of latching onto a word and using it several times in a story. A past favourite of his was “cacophony”. In this book, the word was “obdurate”. He vastly overused this word to the point that it was laughable, and then just annoying.I was initially attracted to reading 22/11/63 because it dealt with time travel. I loved King’s descriptions of what it was like in the the US in the late 1950’s. An additional bonus of the book was how well King researched Lee Harvey Oswald. I learned a lot about Oswald and the assassination of JFK.The story was interesting and had several subplots to keep things moving but there were some aspects of the story that were a bit weak. Events and action were rapidly thrown into the last portion of the book as if to hurriedly wrap things up. I found I started to lose interest towards the end.Was this book the same caliber as The Stand, The Green Mile, the Dead Zone? No, however overall I did enjoy 22/11/63 and would say it was worth reading.

⭐This was my first Stephen King novel and there were a lot of positives. It is a fluid, mature writing style; with a wide-ranging vocabulary and copious allusions. I found the English typically American. Since the setting mostly involved the Southern US and small-town communities of the 1950’s and early 60’s, there was a lot of slang and expressions of local coloring. King did an outstanding job of describing his characters and their times. There was also an abundance of detail regarding events leading up to Kennedy’s assassination. On the negative side, the story seemed to drag on at times. We were, after all, obliged to wait those five long years (1958-63) along with our hero, Jake/George, as events slowly unfolded. He had his moments, however, notably his relationship with Sadie. But the novel ends on a very sour note. Without giving away too much, I thought King’s entire take on time travel, and the butterfly effect, was excessively morose. As I put the novel down I felt cheated and angry. Like Jake Epping, I had put a lot of effort into it (reading is not my forte; and for Jake – his goal was his mission). I had had great expectations. The denouement offered little by way of redemption. It is always difficult to identify with a character who takes a beating both literally and figuratively. For all his pain and good intensions, I felt Jake deserved a better fate.

⭐I began reading this novel with an open mind and finished it with the impression that Mr. King has not kept up with with the news (the senate hearings which proclaimed that the assassination of JFK was committed by more than one shooter). This left me feeling as if I’d just wasted time and money on a waste of effort…deeply disappointing.

⭐I am not a Stephen King fan. A friend recommended this book. I lived through the 1960’s and remember the assasination and aftermath of J.F.K’s assasination I decided to read it. Sci-Fi is not my genre either, but I really liked this book. It made me think about actions and how they affect the future. I made me think we should all be mindful of our speech and actions even in small things, because of the effect they have on others.An entertaining read as well

⭐I gave it a 5 because it is what is expected from Stephen King. The suspense built up slowly & Kept you on the edge of your seat, so to speak’ it is one of those books you just couldn’t put down.I would recommend this to all Stephen King fans, and others who have not tried Stephen King yet, but enjoy a well written book to keep you in suspense.

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