Author: Stephen King
Genres: Science Fiction, Time Travel, Mystery, Alternate History, American Literature, Thriller, suspense, horror, romance
11/22/63, The date of the Assassination of the thirty-fifth American president John F. Kennedy.
This book is one of the best books I have ever read and can easily be in the top hundred books of all time on my books list. You get almost all the genres in this story and King has delivered a great masterpiece once again. I suggest you watch the miniseries first and then read the book for a full feel and understanding of what it is all about. But it is true; you can’t beat a book when it comes to explaining something.
This book’s ending is so painful and it punches you hard and squeezes your heart if you love someone but that is what stories are meant to do, make you realize and understand the reality and fix the issues according to what you feel. If a book makes you think about a loved one, then go say “I love you” at that very moment, because you never know if it is the last time you are seeing or talking to someone.
This is a huge book but don’t be afraid, it is a fast read and you are going to want more once it is done, and actually, you can imagine a few more chapters of your own if you want. But it was all left for you to decide by the King.
With this book, the writer is going to explain the term “page-turner” and “can't put down” once you start reading this book.
This is not what the writer usually writes, I mean the genre but he has command over whatever he writes and this book is as great as most of his work. This is my second review of Mr. Stephen King but it feels like the first because of the different styles and genres of the two books I reviewed. But one thing is for sure, he is the King.
Synopsis:
“One of the Ten Best Books of The New York Times
Book Review Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Now a miniseries from Hulu starring James Franco
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.”
As with all of Mr. King’s books, I can't go below perfect score and recommendation.
Rating: 100/100
Recommended: 100/100 Yes.
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Check other book reviews by me:
A Promised Land - Christ The Lord: Out of Egypt - Giles Goat-Boy - James Herriot's Dog Stories - Rich Dad Poor Dad - Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography - The Last Templar - The Book of Flying - Queen Of Egypt - Pharaoh's Destruction - A Non-Fiction Writing Machine - IMPROBABLE - The Eight - The Millionaire Next Door - Riley Thorn And The Dead Guy Next Door - Atomic Habits - DUNE - The False Mirror - From the Corner of His Eye - Nightmares & Dreamscapes - Captain Sinbad - Jaws of Darkness - JAWS - The Fifth Angel - Papillon - Nine Lives - The Doomsday Conspiracy - The Da Vinci Code - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - The Last Thing He Told Me - Sooley - Survive the Night - 11/22/63
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