I finally picked up my first Stephen King book. Thanks to a friend for the recommendation, I read 11/22/63.
A brief synopsis. It’s a book that uses the assassination of JFK as a motive to go back in time to make a change. It explores the human need for relationships while imagining the effect of the, seemingly small, changes on the way life plays out.
On principal, I do not like time travel. I don’t believe in it. If you want to discuss this further, please, let’s chat! That being said, I really enjoyed this book. At the end of the day, Stephen King simply uses time travel as means of setting up a scenario. The majority of the book was more about the experience of the life lived out than on time travel, most of the time you could forget that time travel even happened. I appreciated that. He makes sure to sandwich the story nicely by ending with an opinion of how time travel could effect the future and suggests a lesson on what kind of impact would be made if we could change the past.
I would recommend this book for a fun read. It’s fairly easy with some vocabulary I had to look up (obdurate) but there aren’t many unfamiliar words and they’re all introduced in the beginning. The beauty of the simple life of the past was probably the most appealing thing to me, along with the random insane crime that seems unreasonable but makes sense. And, without giving up Stephen King’s take on time travel, I actually liked where he went with it!
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