Go ahead, book snobs. Proclaim haughtily that Stephen King is not Literature. I shall retort with a Pratchett quote, "Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book." And nobody argues with Sir Terry.(Since 'a picture is worth a thousand words', the above is a three-thousand-words summary of this book. Impressive, no? And also - dancing is life.)As you probably guessed from the not-too-spoiler-sensitive title, 11/22/63 is a book about time travel. My love for it is an exception ra [...]

Thank you, Steve. You were wrong all those years ago when you said you weren't very good at writing about love and intimacy. The love story here is full of honesty and tenderness. When I got to the last couple of pages, I was crying so hard I couldn't read.11/22/63 is a supernatural, quasi-historical, philosophical, science-fiction love story. If you're avoiding it because you think Stephen King only writes horror, please reconsider. There's no horror here, aside from a couple of mild gross-out [...]

Look at the amount of pages in this book. Look at the amount of pages in Under The Dome. Check the date this book is published. Check the date Under The Dome was published. *eyetwitch*Real. Utterly compelling. King outlines a clear end goal, and the novel benefits enormously as the journey to that destination unfolds. A constant suspense and wonder as the reader considers when- and how- we'll get to that fateful titular date, not to mention what will happen when we get there, and once we leave i [...]

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”I still fail to understand why Stephen King isn't considered a writer of "respected literature". Because he writes sci-fi and horror? Because his books are so compelling, entertaining and popular? For me, King does what very few authors manage - he turns fast-paced genre fiction into well-written, thought-provoking literature. And 11/22/63 is no exception. I've been putting this book off for the last few years; partly because it's an [...]

Hi, my name is Jake Epping and I’m a dull high school English teacher who has decided to go back in time to prevent JFK from being assassinated. I’ve decided to do this primarily because a fat man who serves me 53 year-old cheeseburgers (with whom I share only a vague casual acquaintance) has told me that I should. There is no other real reason for me to being doing this. There really isn’t. Once I’m there, I will also risk my life to save a bunch of other people that I barely know becau [...]

You may ask yourself how in the world did a wife beating, mental degenerate, and multiple country defecting (USA, RUSSIA and an attempt at Cuba) little shit like thiskill the charismatic, handsome war hero, and most powerful man in the world.It doesn't make any sense. It never has made any sense. Oswald just does not fit the profile for a guy that could pull off an assassination of this magnitude. He's a semi-educated hillbilly, but he's surprisingly crafty."Kennedy provided a golden opportunity [...]

I'll be honest here. It's really rare that I get through a book over 500 pages, let alone 700 (Nook pages). It's also true that I have never read a single thing from Mr. King until now. Why? I'm not sure. Maybe his books intimidated me, because when I was younger everyone was always talking to me about how his books were so long, and blah blah. Anyway, I am proud to say that 11/22/63 was my first book read by Stephen King. I hear it's so much different than his other work, but I also haven't met [...]

*sigh* I'm so upset that it's over You got me at the ending there, Stephen. You really, truly got me. What can I possibly say about this wonderful, beautiful book? That it's wonderful and beautiful? No. That's no where near enough praise. This book made it up to my top 3 favorites list by King (placing at #3) and is probably my favorite book of 2011 (if not tied with Shutter Island). Reading this book, I was so worried about what the ending would be (because, let's be honest here, we know King i [...]

Adventures in Time MowingDallas, Texas11/22/63“Hey, you just appeared out of nowhere! How did you do that? And is that a laptop melted onto a lawn mower?”“Yeah. See there was this lightning strike and now I can use my time mower to visit the past and. Wait a second. If you’re from 1963, how did you know what a laptop is? Oh, shit! You’re a time traveler, too?”“Yes, I am. What year are you from?”“2011. My name’s Kemper.”“No way! I’m from 2011, too. My name is George Ambe [...]

Jake Epping, a high school English teacher living in Lisbon Falls, Maine, seems to enjoy his vocation along with the very cheap burgers at Al’s Diner made fresh daily by owner Al Templeton. Meeting up with Al one evening, Jake is stunned by the astonishing secret Al has kept for several years. As Jake listens closely he is extremely skeptical and shocked about Al’s request; he wants him to go on a journey. Not any ordinary journey, but an extraordinary and quite unique mission that he needs [...]

I'm a reluctant fan of Stephen King. But this book was terrible.The main guy is a teacher. EVERY POSSIBLE CLICHE ABOUT TEACHERS is in this book. As in:1. Meticulously correcting oral grammar2. Catching some kids drinking at the sock hop, but letting them off easy after a heartfelt talk about actions and consequences3. Directing a play and thereby enabling the town's best football player to realize his intellectual strengthsand on and on.There are also a series of contrived plot twists. For examp [...]

Real spoilers are inside "spoiler" tags. Things that tell a little about the content that I would have appreciated hearing before committing to this behemoth are not. You've been warned.This is my first Stephen King read. I'm not a horror fan, but I love a good alternate history, and I figured that a story of a man who goes back in time to stop Kennedy's assassination could be one of those. It isn't. Not the biggest hurdle, because this could still have been an enjoyable read if it had been abou [...]

This book is one of the best I have read in awhile for its length. It's pure genius. Who hasn't wanted do-overs in their life ? I would probably go back to when I started high school and make wiser decisions.I would have loved to have heard the conversations between Stephen King, his wife and their son, Author Joe Hill. His wife still stands with the theories that Oswald didn't act alone, and Joe Hill thought of another way to end the book. The way King describes the characters in this makes the [...]

Traveling Sister Reads Review by NORMA, LINDSAY and BRENDA!!3.5 stars rounded up to 4 stars for the book5+++++++ stars for the reading experience for all of us participating in this ‘Traveling Sister Reads’!! So much fun!!!Steven King has a lot going on here in 11/22/63 as we have some time-traveling, political history, and also a little bit of romance in this Historical Fiction Thriller novel that had us all engaged, interested, and rooting for a positive outcome but we must admit that we f [...]

WOW! What a great read! UNPUTDOWNABLE! My favorite book of the year thus far. Highly recommend!Occam's Razor - the simplest explanation is usually the right one.Update: February 15, 2016 - Watched the first episode on HULU.Yikes! Get ready for some action-packed scenes that "jump" out at you and some super scary dudes from hell! Can't wait to get back to it, but want to stretch out the series to last!Update: June 4, 2016 - Wow! Oh! Wow! Excellent!Enjoyed a marathon day of all 8 episodes of Seaso [...]

I had just sat down to begin this review on my laptop when the doorbell went. I wasn't expecting anyone. It was probably going to be one of those pitiful door to door salesmen trying to get me to buy a dishcloth for a fiver. They make me feel so bad. But it wasn't. I opened the door and looked at myself. It was me."Huh, what? " I said. "You're… you're…""Yeah, that's right. I'm you. Sorry about that. Like looking in a mirror, isn't it? But worse!""Uh… what's goin' on ?" This was bad, I was [...]

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Stephen King is not a literary writer. In fact, in literary circles, I am afraid that he may not be considered even a good writer. I am almost certain that he is not going to win the Nobel Prize for literature; even the Booker and Pulitzer also seems unlikely to come to him.Who cares? Because King is the last of that dying breed: the storyteller. The spirit that moves in him is the same which animated the stone-age shaman as he narrated fascinating, fantastic, bloodcurdling, raunchy and sentimen [...]

What did I think? I think I lost a weekend and there is no way to go back in time to get it because I don't know where the rabbit hole is! But would I? Would I change having read this book? No way!I was a huge Stephen King fan in high school and gobbled up all of his books. Until they went from cool weird to over-the-top weird. Suddenly coke machines were your worst enemy and there seemed to be a less emotional element mixed with the macabre (think Pet Cematary) and it was just a bunch of words [...]

When a dying friend shows him a portal to 1958 in the back of his diner, Jake Epping finds himself venturing in the past with one goal in mind: Stopping Lee Harvey Oswald! But did Oswald do it? And can Jake stop him even if he did fire the shot that killed JFK?Once I got over Stephen King's throbbing erection for the late 1950's/early 1960's, I enjoyed this book immensely. Here's how it all went down.Jake's friend, an old diner owner, shows him a portal back to 1958. Each trip is like the first [...]

I had the pleasure of being able to read this lengthy book along with my favourite sisters, Brenda and Norma. It was an honour to be included in one of their 'sister reads'! Our rating/review is as follows:3.5 stars rounded up to 4 stars for the book5+++++++ stars for the reading experience for all of us participating in this ‘Traveling Sister Read’!! So much fun!!!To see our full review, please visit Norma and Brenda's book blog at twogirlslostinacouleereading.

**********SOME SPOILERS**********Here is another book I wasn't sure I would like as I don't care for time travel books. BUT once again I was wrong and this time travel book was AWESOME!Jake Epping is having a normal day when his friend Al, who owns a diner, lets him in on a big secret. Al's little diner has a portal that leads back to the 1950's - 60's! And Al wants Jake to go back and try to save Kennedy to see if the world would be a better place. Al has been trying for awhile but now he's goi [...]

Listen to an excerpt from Stephen King's 11/22/63 audiobook, narrated by Craig Wasson.A grandmaster of storytelling, the Dickens of modern times is back with another top read.He's back with no Here's Johnny! but certainly here's Lee Oswald! a brutal husband and a father.The stage is set the focal time 22nd November 1963, enter the main protagonist Jake Epping soon to be known as George Amberson down the Alice in Wonderland Rabbit Hole, the mission to rewrite history. What Jake undertakes has dee [...]

Review now up!I went into this book knowing three things:1. It was HUGE2. I’m not a big JFK assignation conspiracy fan. I didn’t know if this whole plot would work for me or not.3. I know Stephen King can get wordy, so I was hoping that this book wouldn’t lag or get off point.First, I can safely say that yes, the book is huge, but the story is so captivating that I didn’t notice.Secondly, I now want to go to Dallas and the Texas School Book Depository to see where Oswald did the deed. Wh [...]

Wow, this book was amazing in many different ways! First of all, it's one of those stories that puzzles with your mind and makes you think: What if? What if you could go back in time and change the future? How would it work out? Stephen King gives us his version of this in this novel, and it is highly entertaining! Secondly, this is one of King's novels that is NOT horror but more of a thriller, and I loved this shift in genre. I've previously claimed that King is a great story-teller but not ne [...]

Stephen King’s 11/22/63 was a behemoth of a work with more layers than a Chicagoan in December. The premise in itself was exhilarating, and the execution was near flawless. Another chef-d'oeuvre from Ole’ Uncle Stevie. This one was a novel that absolutely could not have been tackled by just anyone and may have fallen flat on its face if handled by a less experienced craftsman. The worlds on both sides of the time-travel line were utterly realistic, but where King really showed his masterful [...]

This review, along with many of my others, can now be found at Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud.Wrist-spraining goodness. Just about as good as it gets. The fiftieth anniversary of the assassination is this week. It's a good time to think about the might-have-beens of history.

Wow. This book is a mess on so many levels I'm not sure where to even begin. First, it's a damn shame that King chose to take what could have been an interesting story centered around the Kennedy assassination and turn it into nothing more than a liberal lovefest worshipping all that is Kennedy and a political diatribe against all that is Republican, conservative and/or religious. I was well aware of King's political views when I read this book, as well as every other King book I've read, but ne [...]

Stephen King's time travel tale, about a man who uses a time portal, which always takes him back to the same exact time and place in 1958, to try to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, is mostly a science fictional tale, but--being King--I suppose he couldn't resist adding an element of horror and surrealism. Jake Epping, a Maine high school teacher, is told about this mysterious portal by Al, the owner of the diner that contains the portal. Al has been using the portal, living much of [...]

I should never have doubted that this would be amazing. Stephen King is a master storyteller, and this is one heck of a story. I thoroughly enjoyed every second of this, especially the parts of everyday life when the MC is in Texas. I expected to care most about his mission, but in the end I most enjoyed when King mused on normal life and what's at the heart of every human being--love, friendship, and purpose.