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11/22/63

Originally Published: 8, November 2011
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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Survive the Night

Originally Published: 29, June 2021
Author: Riley Sager
Genres: Supernatural, Horror, Serial Killer, Thriller, Psychological Thrillers, Suspense, Crime

The book is a fun read and you can’t stop reading it, but I think it started a bit slow, then changed into a crazy fast-paced page-turner. 

If you are a fan of the writer then maybe you’ll get disappointed because this book is not on the level of his previous books but don’t worry, it won’t make you hate or stop reading his upcoming books.

I felt like watching a movie that is made to give homage and respect to the movies from the eighties and nineties. The twists and turns are good and some changes that were never taken by the main female were absurd and crazy.

It was a great and useless story at the same time and the only reason and aspect that can be blamed for that is the main character because you are surely going to like others very much and going to feel for them but if you are like me, then I think you are not going to like her in real life either and that is the reason many people are going to hate the story, not because the writer is bad or the story is bad, it is just this character.

And if you think with an open mind then you are going to realize the reason the writer wrote her this way is to make the reader crazy while reading. Because you can finish this book in one sitting, even with a twister story, you can understand what is happening in the first two hours of reading time, and if she is not doing what she is doing in the story, then this book becomes worthless and no one was going to like it.

My final thoughts on this book: sometimes it is okay to read strange and silly stories, it helps your brain relax and forget the reality like being on a bumpy ride.


From The Back Cover:
“THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

One of New York Times Book Review's "summer reads guaranteed to make your heart thump and your skin crawl"; An Amazon Best of the Month Pick; Named a must-read summer book by The Washington Post, USA Today, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Forbes, Entertainment Weekly, CNN, New York Post, Good Housekeeping, E!, PopSugar, CrimeReads, Thrillist, and BookRiot.

It’s November 1991. Nirvana's in the tape deck, George H. W. Bush is in the White House, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer.

Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it’s guilt and grief over the shocking murder of her best friend, who became the third victim of the man known as the Campus Killer. For Josh, it’s to help care for his sick father—or so he says.

The longer she sits in the passenger seat, the more Charlie notices there’s something suspicious about Josh, from the holes in his story about his father to how he doesn’t want her to see inside the trunk. As they travel an empty, twisty highway in the dead of night, an increasingly anxious Charlie begins to think she’s sharing a car with the Campus Killer. Is Josh truly dangerous? Or is Charlie’s jittery mistrust merely a figment of her movie-fueled imagination?

One thing is certain—Charlie has nowhere to run and no way to call for help. Trapped in a terrifying game of cat and mouse played out on pitch-black roads and in neon-lit parking lots, Charlie knows the only way to win is to survive the night.”



Rating: 80/100
Recommended: 90/100 Yes.


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Sooley

Originally Published: 27, April 2021
Author: John Grisham
Genres: Cultural, Heritage, Fiction, Sports, Adventure, Coming of Age

Normally I never read sports-related stories or watch movies from this genre because they kind of all are the same in many ways. But this book is different and I had to read it because it is written by Mr. John Grisham. The story is about a basketball player from an African country and his family.

The first thing you are going to notice is the feeling of listening to a commentary while reading the parts on the court, the play-by-play info of the basketball moving around, the dribbles, the catches, and the movement of the players. That’s how you write a book about sports and what is happening to make a reader visualize every moment like he/she is actually watching or listening to a radio.

The way the writer portrayed the living conditions and situation in many of the African countries is so realistic and painful to read and I am sure many of you may start sending donations to these deserving people after reading this book.

You are going to learn a lot from this book, not just about basketball and the selection system…you are going to learn how other humans are suffering while we don’t even know about it.


From The Back Cover:
“NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • John Grisham takes you to a different kind of court in his first basketball novel. Samuel “Sooley” Sooleymon is a raw, young talent with big hoop dreams—and even bigger challenges off the court.

“Hard to put down ... the pages turn quickly ... building to a climax that won’t leave readers doubting whether this is a John Grisham novel.” —Associated Press

In the summer of his seventeenth year, Sam­uel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basket­ball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on an airplane. The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true.

Samuel is an amazing athlete, with speed, quick­ness, and an astonishing vertical leap. The rest of his game, though, needs work, and the American coaches are less than impressed.

During the tournament, Samuel receives dev­astating news from home: A civil war is raging across South Sudan, and rebel troops have ran­sacked his village. His father is dead, his sister is missing, and his mother and two younger brothers are in a refugee camp.

Samuel desperately wants to go home, but it’s just not possible. Partly out of sympathy, the coach of North Carolina Central offers him a scholar­ship. Samuel moves to Durham, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season. There is plenty of more mature talent and he isn’t immediately needed.

But Samuel has something no other player has: a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America. He works tirelessly on his game, shooting baskets every morning at dawn by himself in the gym, and soon he’s dominating everyone in practice. With the Central team los­ing and suffering injury after injury, Sooley, as he is nicknamed, is called off the bench. And the legend begins.

But how far can Sooley take his team? And will success allow him to save his family?

Gripping and moving, Sooley showcases John Grisham’s unparalleled storytelling powers in a whole new light. This is Grisham at the top of his game..”


If you are a Grisham fan then it doesn't matter what points I give, you are still going to read this book. But I recommend this book to everyone even if you are not a fan of the writer or the sport it is about; just read it to know about the people around the world.

Warning: do not read this book if you have depression.


Rating: 90/100

Recommended: 95/100 Yes, but do not read if you are going through a depression.

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