11/22/63 in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Sep 17, 2012 Jess rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, read-2012, read-2019

2019 re-read: I didn't love this as much as I did the first time (7 years ago, almost to the day, and just like now with a RAGING cold), but I also can't bring myself to remove a star from the rating.

2012: Stephen King, man. I've honestly never read any of his horror - which is what he's best known for, I guess - but this book?! I was crying so hard for the last five pages or so of it that I could barely read (so I guess I'm still a romantic at heart after all) ...which was also my reaction to ...more

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Apr 25, 2012 gwen g rated it it was ok

Good idea, mediocre writing, very mediocre characters, terrible pacing. Stephen King, there is no reason on earth that this book needed to be almost 900 pages long. Hire an editor, sir!

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Dec 17, 2011 Sarah rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: book-club-books, reread

this book was some ways a departure from normal King books, and in some ways exactly the same. one thing for certain; it's one of the best books he's ever written.

8/29/15 still a big fan! ...more

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Mar 05, 2012 Michelle rated it really liked it

Shelves: sf

Time travel with Jake Eppping/George Amperson back to the late 1950s and early 1960s to try to save JFK from being assassinated...and his student Harry Dunning from having his family slaughtered on Halloween. Falls in love with Sadie Dunhill, the school librarian in small town of Jodie, Texas.

Yellow card man, resets, Al's diner, teaching, Mike and Bobbie Jill, dancing. ...more

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Feb 14, 2012 Arianna rated it really liked it

Shelves: library-book, big-books-2013

This book was, improbably, ultimately a story about true love. It made me cry many a time. I enjoyed the adventure into 40 years ago. King writes a mean book.

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