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11/22/63

Stephen King

Start date: June 1, 2023

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Dec 27, 2016 Trisha rated it it was amazing

"The Past is obdurate. It doesn't want to be changed."

What an amazing story. The ultimate question - what would have happened if JFK had not been assassinated. It's mind bending to even wonder all the differences. But even more fascinating is the time in which it was and how it was so different to now.

The book was all consuming, one that I enjoyed both via audio book (which I recommend, although 30 discs is a bit daunting) and also through the hard copy. It's a long story but one well worth ever ...more

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Apr 09, 2012 Tien rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: read-on-kobo, science-fiction, time-travel, favorites, own, moving-mt-2015, mm-16

I love love love this book! I’ve only read a handful of Stephen King’s books as horror isn’t my cup of tea so I’ve primarily read his fantasy works plus a few of the ‘horror’ stories (horror in quotation as I try to pick ones that aren’t too scary for me). What’s to love about 11.22.63? Firstly, it’s time travel –my most favourite kind of story! I love the setting (late 50s / early 60s in US) and I just adore the many possibilities, the uncertainties, and cause & effect etc. There are so much to ...more

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Nov 15, 2014 Nancy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: historical-fiction, america, alternative-history, time-travel

What would happen to the world if JFK hadn't been assassinated? This was a question which Jake Epping was asked to face seriously when his friend Al admitted that he had discovered a way to step back in time, back to 1958. Al, dying of lung cancer, tasked Jake with going back and trying to stop Lee Harvey Oswald but it was no simple task. As Jake observed on multiple occasions, the past is obdurate. It doesn't want to be changed. Spending 5 years in the past preparing to stop that momentous even ...more

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Jan 21, 2017 Gabriela rated it really liked it

Shelves: nook, north-american, reality-check

My first Stephen King book and I was amazed. It was such a comprehensive account of JFK's times and events leading up to his assassination. From the time travel perspective of trying to prevent the president's death, everything seemed much more exciting and tense, spiced up by the relationship between Jake/George and Sadie and the past which was obdurate, by the harmonies which became more than the mere butterfly effect worldwide. I still have to grasp the immensity of this novel, to really give ...more

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