11.22.63: Stephen King

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At first his mission is just to stop Lee Harvey Oswald from assassinating JFK, but then little things pop up here and there making him consider a few new things that need to be changed. Perplexed by what was going on, Al decides to let Jake experience what he wanted to tell him and instructs Jake to take a step further into a portal, and Jake does. King has stated the book's idea came to him in 1971, yet at the time didn't have enough confidence in his skill or ability to properly pull something like this off. Lindy hops, Chevrolets and thick cigarette smoke apart, King only goes through the motions; Mad Men, rich and complex, this isn't, and I never believed in his 1958 any more than I believed in his portal. Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, goes back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, 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.

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The possibility of such an intervention must number, along with its darker twin of going back and killing Hitler, among the principal fantasies of time travel, and is explored in the 54th work of fiction by Stephen King. Since 'a picture is worth a thousand words', the above is a three-thousand-words summary of this book. Sun Cleverly evokes the moral dilemmas of time travel and whether a time traveller could or should prevent the assassination of John F.

King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, 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. A novel about a time traveller who attempts to prevent the assassination of United States President John F. Al, you see, has discovered a portal to 1958 at the back of his pantry, and has been making regular journeys there for some time.

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In the notebook Al gave him, Al states that George de Mohrenschildt may have been involved in the attempted assassination of Edwin Walker. Independent King swiftly moves beyond vintage Americana to unfold a stunningly panoramic portrait of the era. is rooted in actual events but doesn't spend a lot of time recounting history; rather, it uses historical facts -- in this case, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, hoping that doing so would stop the Vietnam War and change history for the better. Characters [ edit ] Fictional [ edit ] Jacob "Jake" Epping An English teacher at Lisbon Falls High School in Maine.

Jake travels to Jodie and meets 80-year-old Sadie, who is being honored as the citizen of the century.

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Pages are clean, legible, and bright // No previous owner names//No writing in the book margins or blank spaces // No underlining.But whereas Ellroy creates a crazy matrix of law, politics, sex, big business and underworld shenanigans, King slows the pace and focuses on the sort of small town in Maine in which he was raised.