I highly recommend this story to anyone who’s ever thought about going back and changing history. The journey had such magic about it that I often found myself wanting to pause if only to extend the experience for a little longer. He is the recipient of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service. His epic works The Dark Tower and It are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest grossing horror film of all time. This was one of only 2 books that actually made me cry as I closed the cover on the final page. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. The characters are all well developed, over the course of the story. on november 22, 1963, three shotsrang out in dallas, presidentkennedy died, and the world changed. From the taste of Root beer to the smell of the old mill, it’s the finer details of the story that tend to pull you.

What sets this book apart from other similar time-traveling stories is just how incredibly visual 1960s America becomes in the reader’s mind. The paperback version of the book, released after the movie. Stephen King, once again, works his magic in a way few writers can match. On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world. 11/22/63 has a way of pulling you into its grip right from the first few pages. Helped by the beautiful librarian, Sadi Dunhill, Jake finds himself caught on a one-way track to a future he could never have imagined. Jake quickly learns that changing things in the past is not as easy as first thought since time itself has a way of pushing back. Unprepared for the consequences of manipulating events, things go from bad to worse as events start to divert from their predetermined path. 11.22. When Jake is offered the opportunity to go back in time and change the past, he finds himself on a collision course with one of history’s most infamous assassins, Lee Harvey Oswald. On the precipice of an adventure that will take him back to the very heart and soul of the early 1960s America. It’s not every day you find yourself standing at the entrance to a time tunnel but, that is exactly where Jake Epping finds himself.

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