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I agree with the reviewers that have stated that this book would be better if a couple hundred pages were trimmed off. Stephen King is a brilliant writer, but this one just dragged for me. Too much information. It was still good enough to get 4 stars because when it wasn't dragging, the novel was spell-binding, particularly the first and last third. One jarring note for me which may not have bothered others--as a long time resident of Dallas I find his treatment of Dallas and his professed dislike of our city to be perplexing and very unfair. Dallas Derry....Derry Dallas. Seriously? Oh of course I know what his point was. He has explained it himself numerous times that he blames the political and racial climate of Dallas for the Kennedy assassination, just as he blames the current Right Wing politics for recent violent acts. He is certainly entitled to his opinion. Mine is that "crazy is as crazy does"---people who attempt to or succeed in killing public figures (political or celebrities like John Lennon) do so to gain attention for themselves and Oswald is no exception. ( ![]() I modsætning til historiens jeg-fortæller Jake har jeg let ved tårer, og da jeg læste de sidste sider af Stephen Kings 11.22.63 pressede tårerne sig endelig på. Holy shit, hvor er den god. Rørende, smuk og bare hamrende veludført. Jeg har ikke læst meget af King, men jeg må i gang. Hans evner som historiefortæller er out of this world, bedømt ud fra 11.22.63. "What if I go back in time and kill my grandfather?" "Why the fuck would you that?" Just finished it. Really enjoyed. One of Stephen King's better recent books.
It all adds up to one of the best time-travel stories since H. G. Wells. King has captured something wonderful. Could it be the bottomlessness of reality? The closer you get to history, the more mysterious it becomes. He has written a deeply romantic and pessimistic book. It’s romantic about the real possibility of love, and pessimistic about everything else. Kuuluu näihin kustantajien sarjoihinMukaelmia:
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history. 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 fifty 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. No library descriptions found. |
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