11.22.63 the date that changed the world

Hardcover, 740 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2011 by Hodder & Stoughton.

ISBN:: 978-1-4447-2729-6
OCLC Number:: 751748669

(2 reviews)

Jake Epping is an English teacher in Lisbon falls, Maine, vv'ho makes extra money teaching in an adult education programme. One day, he receives an essay from one of his students — a harrowing first person story about the night, fifty years earlier. when Harry Dunning's fat her came home and killed Harry' mother. his sister. and his brother with a sledgehammer.

Later, Jake's friend A1. who runs the local diner. divulges an extraordinary secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane - and insanely possible - mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination.

Inspired by his desire to put things right for Harry Dunning, Jake leaves a world of iPods and mobile phones for a new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars, root beers and Lindy Hopping. It is a haunting world of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey …

Jake Epping is an English teacher in Lisbon falls, Maine, vv'ho makes extra money teaching in an adult education programme. One day, he receives an essay from one of his students — a harrowing first person story about the night, fifty years earlier. when Harry Dunning's fat her came home and killed Harry' mother. his sister. and his brother with a sledgehammer.

Later, Jake's friend A1. who runs the local diner. divulges an extraordinary secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane - and insanely possible - mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination.

Inspired by his desire to put things right for Harry Dunning, Jake leaves a world of iPods and mobile phones for a new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars, root beers and Lindy Hopping. It is a haunting world of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill. who becomes the love of Jake's life — a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.

With extraordinary imaginative power, King explores the culture. of the era and weaves it into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense. 11.22.63 is a love story, a tribute to a simpler time and place and a heartstopping What If? tour de force the like of which no-one has ever read. --front flap

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Review of '11/22/63' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Science fiction where the time traveler can change the past, but in this case saving JFK instead of killing Hitler. Why? Because the time portal goes to just one spot in 1958. Are there consequences to changing the past? That would be telling...

I enjoyed Steven King's soft sci-fi tale of time travel by driving around a few holes in his narrative road. I did not enjoy the time spent in Derry Maine, visiting many Steven King attractions (even though a few would be built in the future). Once our hero was on the road from Maine, I remember thinking that this would make a pretty good movie or television series - then finding that it was, now tagged for future watching.

This was one of the seven top-rated books on my "to read" pile, and this is the first that didn't earn 5 stars. Too much Derry and the …

Science fiction where the time traveler can change the past, but in this case saving JFK instead of killing Hitler. Why? Because the time portal goes to just one spot in 1958. Are there consequences to changing the past? That would be telling...

I enjoyed Steven King's soft sci-fi tale of time travel by driving around a few holes in his narrative road. I did not enjoy the time spent in Derry Maine, visiting many Steven King attractions (even though a few would be built in the future). Once our hero was on the road from Maine, I remember thinking that this would make a pretty good movie or television series - then finding that it was, now tagged for future watching.

This was one of the seven top-rated books on my "to read" pile, and this is the first that didn't earn 5 stars. Too much Derry and the story dragged in a few places. I also found the Yellow Card Man and his kin completely unnecessary to the story, even if they turned out to be from Seattle. Rated 4 stars plus one magic bullet.

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Jan. 7, 2018