11.22.63: Stephen King

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Becomes a good friend of Sadie and "George" and admires the latter as a teacher, but is troubled when she discovers his teaching references are fake. King has him comment on the fact that root beer tastes "fuller" from a 1958 soda fountain than it does in the present--but frankly, that doesn't give me much to go on, and he uses that same descriptor every time he references the root beer (an awful lot) without adding to the picture.

A president riding in an open car sounds insane, but the reality is that a president had not been assassinated since McKinley in 1901.It is a beautifully-imagined and wonderfully written story that will appeal to a wide range of readers.

According to King, the idea for the novel first came to him in 1971, [14] before the release of his first novel, Carrie (1974). The structure of the novel is as follows: guy finds out he can easily go back in time to 1958, to the same minute of the same day each time he goes. After he changes history, he finds out that human events are so important that if they get changed as significantly has he has altered them, the entire earth reacts.It’s still wonderful, still so well-written and engaging, and I am thankful to King for being able to bring me that happiness that reading a good book can give you.

If you're an audiobook lover, I highly suggest listening to this book, or at least supplementing your hardcopy with it. When discussing historical events and the potential impact of changing them (both knowing what actually happened vs conjecturing what would happen if any details were changed), you have to make sure your knowledge of all related events is strong! Unlike some of King's other works, the 800 pages didn't feel like too much to me and they just seemed to fly by. Jake, now George Amberson, just had to lay low and wait for 1963 to roll around and use that time to come up with a plan to stop the before mentioned Lee Harvey Oswald. Jake instead stays in 1958 for some time, contemplating whether to warn Sadie about John Clayton or not.Instead of people who read horror stories, people who read The Help or People of the Book might like this book". You could try to hide behind the settee but you'll have to shove it out from the wall, and she'll notice I think. But, in the end, I feel like the book is in a class all by itself that is not really like any other King book I have read before.

Sadie, now in her eighties, spent the time between 1958 and 2011 doing charity work and served terms as mayor and in the Texas legislature, and is loved by the people of Jodie. His romance with Sadie is spun out so nicely that the Kennedy assassination almost becomes a back ground plot. This was a big story in Dallas at the time and both teams did tons of promotions and advertising so it doesn't seem possible that Jake was somehow unaware of the existence of the Cowboys. A constant suspense and wonder as the reader considers when- and how- we'll get to that fateful titular date, not to mention what will happen when we get there, and once we leave it behind. There are piles of documentation showing that Kennedy had no intention of escalating the war in Vietnam.Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. She becomes angry at his refusal to tell Sadie what he is up to, but remains Jake's ally when he and Sadie are injured. In this book, the immutability of the past, its obduracy to cling to what has already been, is the thing with teeth. Jake arrives with Deke Simmons, the former principal of the high school and Mimi's widower, and saves Sadie from being killed, but Clayton cuts his throat in front of them. I know my experience would have been cheapened by knowing too much beforehand, so I'm not going to tell you what it's about in the style of a traditional book review.