11.22.63: Stephen King

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There is a charming (yet brutally honest) portrayal of American life in the late 50s and early 60s. Epping lays plans to shoot Lee Harvey Oswald and thus save President Kennedy and the world from terrible things. Life in the past gets complicated almost immediately, though. Jake tests his powers to alter the future by shooting the murderous father of a janitor from his high school, knowing that this will save the family from immediate death and destruction at the hands of this monster. Groves, Martha (April 21, 2012). "Times awards Book Prizes". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035 . Retrieved April 30, 2019. Muy buen libro, me gustó mucho. Es una historia muy bien elaborada, que me hizo realmente viajar en el tiempo. I’m not sure if I would have faced some of the morality choices with the same type of grace. I would have been greedy, and gambling much more than he did in the book! Ha!! I also would have been a bit more bloodthirsty.

By the way, this trip to the past gives plenty of deeeeee-licious 'Easter Eggs' to King's Constant Readers. We see little echoes from Pennywise the Clown era in Derry, meet our favorite 1958 Plymouth Fury (Hellllloooo there, Christine!), and even get a nod to A Wizard and Glass with Takuro Spirit. “On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.” Derry of 1958 (right after the terrifying events of IT) is particularly repulsive and sinister. It's a small wonder Jake is able to continue his quest after starting in such an ominous place. But even there King manages to include some unexpected beauty - just remember Richie and Bevvy dancing. What do you mean, change it? How do you know what I was going to write, anyway, I haven't written it yet?" Hey, you just appeared out of nowhere! How did you do that? And is that a laptop melted onto a lawn mower?” There is insight into Lee Harvey Oswald and his associates, and their activities prior to 11/22/63. Not just because it´s US politics from decades ago I never knew that much about, but also because the postmodernist realization that everything has been corrupted made me choose irony and sarcasm as the only possible responses to protect my, already balancing on the cliffs of insanity, brain. For someone prone to US history, there could be obvious or hidden innuendos, easter eggs, and goodies regarding the whole big, political global strategy real time and life game. It´s one of the newMaybe it was, but I don’t think so. I think it was Derry in there—everything that was wrong with it, everything that was askew, hiding in that pipe. Hibernating. Letting people believe the bad times were over, waiting for them to relax and forget there had ever been bad times at all. But, since it isn’t really horror, more historical fiction and alternative reality, I think that some people who have been shying away from King might greatly enjoy this. After that, you could try more King, or move on and at least be able to tell your friends, “yeah, I read a Stephen King book *accomplished grin on face*”.

I was quoting old Talking Heads song titles, but this was a once in a lifetime thing that was happening. So that made it okay. King has this strange way of turning the most fantastical plots into stories about people who feel very real. He writes detailed and honest character portraits, so that these characters become so vivid and realistic, likable and flawed, that we so easily believe in everything that happens to them.One of the students, a janitor named Harry Dunning, submits an assignment describing the night his alcoholic father murdered his mother and siblings with a hammer and injured Harry, causing him to have a permanent brain injury; the story emotionally affects Jake, and the two become friends after Harry earns his GED. Stephen King's '11/22/63' his best in a decade". Lvrj.com. December 23, 2011 . Retrieved May 1, 2012.

Still, you’re talking about saving a guy who is going to have a huge impact on history with no idea of how it will play out.” Es verdad que el final no es perfecto y se ha llevado un poco al extremo, pero tampoco desentona en exceso. Stephen King really nailed the baby-boom area. I could see it in my mind as I was listening to this audio book. The last wish of a dying man is a powerful request to resist, and so Jake finds himself in the past, a man out of time on a quest to save the world. Clearly, the fifties setting plays to King’s strengths as a writer: in the past he has referenced it as being the source of his youthful fears and therefore also his primary inspiration. Subsequently, the author has mined this era for some of his greatest work and it’s only fair to say that the same sense of confidence pervades the TV adaptation.I’m sure not every one of you is focused on world politics and you may want to get rich by betting for sports like Jake did. And of course forming intimate relationships with the people from another time line may risk your entire future as well!