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11/22/63: A Novel
Stephen King's #1 bestselling time-travel novel. 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.
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Favorite favorite story ever! I have read this book more than 20 times , I have listened to the audiobook more than 100 times. I will even listen to the audiobook to get to sleep. Ive listened to the audiobook on long drives. I love the story so much. 11/22/63 is the number one book that I always recommend. It is a definite reread for me. 10 out of 10 stars, but I absolutely hated the miniseries
An extremely long and verbose book with lots of detail. However, King is an excellent storyteller and kept me engaged the entire book. Very interesting premise and well done.
I am only 100 pages in and this book is already so so good. The story is original, the characters are so likeable and I can see this playing out in my imagination as I read/listen along. I have so many questions and have to fight my urge to google LOL.
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