No. 45 for 2012

Title: 11/22/63: A Novel
Author: Stephen King
Rating: 4/5
Book: 45/50 (90% completed)
Pages: 849 pgs
Total Pages: 16,935 pages
Version: Book
Next up: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

This was an awesome book! I loved the majority of the book. There were parts that I thought were just filler and had nothing really relevant to add to the story. I also think that the execution of JFK was a little rushed. There was 750(ish)pages of build up and 100 pages on the actual execution. I would have liked to have seen more of that. Anyways, that being said, this book was awesome and should be read by all!

About the Book:

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed forever.

If you had the chance to change the course of history, would you?
Would the consequences be worth it?

Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.

Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, 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.

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