11/22/63

11/22/63 by Stephen King

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


What did I think?  I think I lost a weekend and there is no way to go back in time to get it because I don't know where the rabbit hole is!  But would I?  Would I change having read this book?  No way!

I was a huge Stephen King fan in high school and gobbled up all of his books.  Until ... they went from cool weird to over-the-top weird.  Suddenly coke machines were your worst enemy and there seemed to be a less emotional element mixed with the macabre (think Pet Cematary) and it was just a bunch of words filling up pages talking about near nonsense.  I stopped following King.  Plain and simple.  But over the years I have meandered up his path from time to time ... and found The Dome was along those lines of his original work.  But this?  This was FANTABULOUS!  Right from the get-go the premise draws you in.  Who wouldn't want to know what the world would be like if John F. Kennedy hadn't been shot?  But this is Stephen King, and he's not taking you to bed for good without a boatload of foreplay.  I was snagged from page one, and I too was greatly concerned about what happens to the future if you mess up the past! 

I guess it couldn't end any other way ... and I was a little confused as to the events that supposedly would take place if Kennedy hadn't died ... but I don't want to say anymore.  You must read this book and you must understand you will have no other desire to do anything else until it is finished!!



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