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I went into this book a bit skeptical. I stopped reading King a good 25 years ago (maybe closer to 30) because he was getting too epic with the tellings when it could have been easily cut in half and still been a good story. I still think it. This book was over 31 hours long. But while I think it could have easily been cut by a good 10 hours and been fine, it wasn't as tedious as I expected. It's not going to get me back to regularly reading King again but it hasn't driven me away again.
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This is a very different tale from the usual horror / thriller that emerges from his pen. A hole through to the past has been found and Jake Epping steps into October 1958 eith the idea of living there until he can prevent the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. However for every action there must be a reaction and the buttefly effect is soon in full flow. This is not a fast moving novel and the reader might be waiting a long time to read of Kennedy's appearance in Dallas. It is however
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Oh My Goodness. I didn't think I was a Stephen King fan - but WOW!!!! I will have to read more of his non horror books. This was fantastic. I've read numerous time travel books and this was by far the best. I have always been fascinated with the Kennedy assassination (year I was born), and this was so intriguing - what could/would happen in the past were changed? "The past is obdurate. The past is harmonious." This will give me so much to think about for weeks to come. One of my favorite reads o
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Took me a while to read 849 pages, but enjoyed this book from start to finish. I am not a Stephen King fan, but have a thing for time travel stories. Brilliant to weave JFK's assassination into the plot. Ending was not predictable!
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