By the way, this trip to the past gives plenty of deeeeee-licious 'Easter Eggs' to King's Constant Readers. As a result, Jake loses his memories of Lee Harvey Oswald and spends weeks in the hospital and in a rehabilitation center.

Because the portal gives one the ability to alter the present by changing an event in the past, Al reveals that he had concocted a plan to prevent John F. As we move toward the event itself, King has a decision to make as to whether this was the case, or whether one of the many conspiracy theories about Kennedy’s death provides a better version of the truth, and it is interesting to see which road he chooses. The contrast between how Boyle gives a sense of 1970 and how King gives a sense of 1960 is vertiginous.Originally King had a different ending to his latest book 11/22/63 but after a suggestion from his son, Joe Hill, he changed it Here is what the moderator of King's official board had to say about it. There are heaps of action, suspense, and easter eggs planted for fans who have read other books by the author (visiting Derry right after the first summer that the Losers Club experienced Pennywise was unreal). As you probably guessed from the not-too-spoiler-sensitive title, 11/22/63 is a book about time travel. But, in the end I loved the whole package – quick places, slow places, exposition, character development, backstory, etc.

I told you, Kemper, we did a few trial runs where we saved people from some ugly fates and then went back to the future and everything was fine. I’m sure not every one of you is focused on world politics and you may want to get rich by betting for sports like Jake did. This would be fine (or something on the yawn-inducing side of fine) if this were a fast, plot-driven book, but it's not. Sadie nevertheless finds him in Fort Worth and the two of them attempt to make it to Dallas in time.I can´t imagine how incredible this would have been if he would have written it during his high years when he created It, Misery, and some of his other, best works. He establishes a new life in the past, in a world filled with big American cars, rock'n'roll, and shameless racism, sexism and homophobia. The decision of what to do to Oswald is presented as simple and binary, in a way that bugged me throughout the book. Which means that a person who simply kept Oswald from being present on the parade route that day (by any means necessary, gory ones included--slit the guy's arm open with a knife, for example) would save both Kennedy's life and Oswald's.

Know that you might devour it, or might need to set it down and take a break from it from time to time. Now on my reread, I already knew what was coming - the same urgency wasn't there - so I was able to appreciate that storyline a bit more and it's actually really piqued an interest in learning more about this moment in American history.King has been very clever with his method of time travel, building some important rules into the process: the rabbit-hole always takes the traveller to the same time on the same date, so there can be no jumping back and forward through time when things get hairy. 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. So if your buddy Al went through the portal to 1958 and changed something like saved somebody’s life, and then he went back through to the present, the change would have been made. 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. The most important, perhaps, is that each visit affects a reset, and any changes made during a previous visit will be lost.