Hachette 11.22.63

The book is a beautiful and heartfelt journey. While the plot is well suited across the board of genres everywhere, the way King paints the picture of the rural America in the 50s and 60s gives you the best possible peek into the golden age of the US. The decision making and conflicts feel real, the way of living in those times are best suited to evoke nostalgia in middle aged Americans reminding them of their teenage. As a Non American, it paints a beautiful image of a world which Americans are currently missing out on. It's not a proper page turner, you will need to switch off your real world and immerse in the book slowly through the pages. But it keeps you in the warmth of its pages nonetheless.

Loved his take on something which resembled the lines of H.G. Wells. And most importantly not horror, a bit spooky, but H.G. Wells sort of good and/or strange spooky!!

Love the plot

You can go for it

This was my first Stephen King Novel and the longest novel I’ve read till date, though the story lulls bit in the start and the middle, it’s a phenomenal piece of literature. Came in perfect condition as well.

It's my first Stephen king book that I have read so I cannot judge him much on this book. King takes us into the America of the 50s and 60s and gives us an alternative take on the Kennedy assassination. The details are so vivid and extensive that it seems that the author himself had a time machine. The protagonist Jake Epping’s friend discovers a time portal in his kitchen that leads to September 9, 1958 from 2011. You can spend as much time as you want in past even years but when you return to 2011 it’s always two minutes later and every visit is a reset (means – whatever you changed in past – if you visit again, it will be erased because you will visit in same time Sept 9, 1958.). The story revolves around Jake Epping and his mission to save JFK but halfway through his mission he falls in love with a girl in 1958 and think that he will never return again to 2011, will he complete his mission or the some kind of force is preventing him from doing it? The ending was pretty normal. Having said that, the novel is well-plotted and reading it wasn't a drag. I had fun while reading it but a normal ending straight up depressed me.

The book takes you to a portal of another world and here I am not using a metaphor. It's a dramatic representation of how the past would change the present and how everything is interdependent. It posts an important question- should we really want to change the past? Or what we have today is the best that could have happened? If we try to mess up with nature, will it cause more harm than good? The most prominent thing about the book are the details which the author seems to draw so effortlessly. Even though it was a long novel reading it didn’t seem like a task. Took me 4 days to read it yet I will say it’s worth the time.

My first fiction book and I feel I made and the best choice. The world building is so good and the suspense carries throughout the book.