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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
… More »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 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 enlisted 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 Sandie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life -- a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.
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Add a CommentWhat a wild ride! I was impressed! Different kind of Stephen King novel for sure, but it delivers in every way. I could not put it down.
After reading this book, the reader, if not already familiar with, should read the following: "Battling Wall Street: The Kennedy Presidency" by Donald Gibson, "Brothers" by David Talbot, "JFK and the Unspeakable" by James Douglass, "Thy Will Be Done" by Gerard Colby with Charlotte Dennett, plus a number of others.
Could not put it down!!
This is his best one yet!!!!
My first full-length Stephen King novel, I'm told that it is very unlike his other stuff. I really liked the story and the protagonist. I'm a little ambivalent about the ending. In a bit of fate that Jake Epping would call "harmonics," I read this book while also listening to Jackie Kennedy's recently released interviews about her life with JFK. It is so tragic that someone with such promise and vitality was killed before he could reach his potential. I feel the same about the other two famous 1960s assassinations: RFK and MLK.
Well done, Mr. King, well done!! A fun book to read
Great book. As in many Stephen King novels, the main character is an author himself - actually a high school english teacher/instructor. Probably my second favorite King book, following only Bag of Bones. 11/22/63 comes highly recommended. The only downside is the fact that this book is so long, and if you're like me and will be checking it out from your local library, you might not have adequate time to read it before the return date.
Like a lot of Stephen King books this is a big book; however don't let that deter you as once you start you will race through this book. Also don't let the fact that is a Stephen King book deter you either. This is not his usual horror story it is an amazing time travel story that has so many underlying themes: love, fate, evil and good. Jake travels back in time to stop Kennedy's assassination, but is history meant to be changed and what if we did change it – would it be for the best?
I'm not a big Stephen King fan, but what caught my eye about this one is that it seems different than his usual work. Once I got started, I had a hard time putting it down when I needed to. The way King mixes history with science fiction made it all work in a way that it really makes you stop and think "What if...?" with various situation. And I was amused by the references to other works of his that he threw in. It actually made me rather sad for it to end because I wanted it to keep going (even though Jake had accomplished everything he realized he needed to). I returned my copy to the library and actually had to buy a copy of my own to read again and again. I now recommend this book to anyone I hear saying that they are trying to decide what their next book will be.
This was a great read. I enjoyed this thoughtful and amazing novel more than I expected. Stephen King has a talent for making time travel understandable and exciting. The impact of being able to change what was to what is and the Butterfly Affect`s outcome was excellent. His story line intertwining with finding love and doing the right thing was compelling. His story will stay with me for a very long time. This book is unique!!!