11/22/63
by Stephen King, 2011, Scribner, New York
My first comment on this book is that it is long … very long. While the book was interesting and the concept is thought-provoking, it did bog down a bit at times.
Stephen King is a very talented writer. This is a book, he says, he started to write a few years after the Kennedy assassination but decided to put it down. He picked up the project again and published this 850-page novel in 2011.
I think that King went off the deep end a bit when depicting the what the world would have looked like had Kennedy survived the assassination attempt. No doubt there would have been unforeseen consequences, but I had a hard time with the scenario that King cooks up.
Did I mention the book was a bit long? I’m not sure I would recommend tackling this one as I am on the fence as to whether or not it was worth it. It certainly has its merits, though.
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