Reviews for 11/22/63--Many contain spoilers

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USA Today

Great review--ended with:

"Readers will be reminded of the suspenseful tension of King's horror tales. But 11/22/63 is no nightmare. It is not typical Stephen King. It is extraordinary Stephen King."

[bobledrew]

Hi everyone... I suppose I should contribute my Kingcast review here. I was off to a conference for the weekend, and coincidentally a review copy arrived from S&S the day before. Made the many travel foulups and the VERY long day getting from Ottawa to the Catskills of NY much more enjoyable. I was so excited that I couldn't wait to get home where my regular podcasting rig was, and just had to record: http://thekingcast.ca/site/?p=320 (I don't think it's too spoiler-infested, but better safe than sorry if you're the type who hates to have anything revealed.) Very appreciative to S&S for helping fill a long day.

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USA Today

Great review--ended with:

"Readers will be reminded of the suspenseful tension of King's horror tales. But 11/22/63 is no nightmare. It is not typical Stephen King. It is extraordinary Stephen King."

I love those ending statements. That is exactly what I thought but couldn't figure out how to put into words.

[bobledrew]

Oh dear. The eminently fair and reasonable Andrew Breitbart's "Big Hollywood" site and its readers don't like Steve very much:

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n a recent interview withCamelot merchant Chris Matthews on MSNBC, King reverted to the media’s “blame the Right first” school of assassination theories...."

And from the commenters:

I think I'm going to have a book burning in my fire pit tomorrow. I'm embarrassed that I even read his books years ago- and that they're still on my bookshelves. What a tool.





Thedillyo82p· 1 day ago


If I'm not mistaken, SK was hit by a vehicle years ago while walking down a country road. Maybe that explains his current mental state-of-mind.

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Libertyinfinite87p· 1 day ago


Steven King has duped marxist syndrome. Many in the "entertainment" field catch this. It is an inability to see that freedom is what made America the worlds greatest superpower. & marxism kills freedom.

As to Jack Kennedy, he was far too conservative for the left, & that's why they killed him. He was firmly & beligerently against marxism, & communism. He was pro freedom. Today he would be on the right.

I've enjoyed many of the movies made from sks books. But I just lost any repect for his future mental character. He has obviously lost it, mentally. He's doped, um, I mean duped.

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Tweety5890p· 1 day ago


This azznozzle's last readable book was The Stand-about 1,000 POS ago.

[bobledrew]

Maclean's magazine (Canadian newsweekly):

REVIEW: 11/22/63

Book by Stephen King

by Brian Bethune on Monday, November 28, 2011 9:05am - 0 Comments
Opinions vary (and how) about the literary quality of Stephen King’s vast output—more than three dozen novels alone—but no one denies the man can tell a story. Or that he has an authentic channel to the zeitgeist, both capturing baby boomer pop culture and contributing to it: who can imagine a prom gone wrong without recalling Carrie, or notice a dog acting strangely without thoughts of Cujo? So it comes as no surprise that when King, 64, wanted to write a time-travel novel, its plot would pivot on his generation’s watershed moment, the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
Jake Epping, a young Maine schoolteacher, takes up the mission bequeathed him by Al Templeton, the owner of a local diner who discovers that his pantry offers a portal to the age of Ike and Elvis, to 11:58 a.m., Sept. 9, 1958, to be precise. Al has learned that every time one of us visits 1958, it’s like the first time: everything he has done on previous visits has vanished as though it had never been. So Al, dying of lung cancer, needs Jake to go and live back then permanently, or at least long enough—five years—to accomplish a mission both consider vital: the portal doesn’t extend back far enough for Jake to kill Hitler, so he had better save Kennedy.
Al offers a summary of the expected benefits of erasing that bad day in Dallas, succinct enough not to bog down readers and persuasive enough to convince Jake, before King starts tackling just about every classic conundrum ever raised in sci-fi’s time-travel subgenre. Some are disposed of quickly—what would happen should he kill his own grandfather, Jake wonders aloud; “Why the f–k would you do that?” Al retorts. Others unfold more slowly over the novel’s 842 pages. Time is “obdurate,” and resistant to change, Jake soon learns; only later does he realize that’s a good thing, in a story that’s as ingenious as it’s compulsively readable.

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At The Walrus Said blog.

[Becks19]

I just started reading 11/22/63 this Saturday. I love it!!! I absolutely could not put it down!! ( hubby actually asked me......What are you obsessed with that book?) I am at the part where

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Al has left us and Jake has no choice but to go straight back to 1958

I can't wait to read more. I think this one of Sai King's best! There are those rare books that you cannot bear to close and this certainly falls into that category.

[PrisonerNumber6]

Well, in that case, looks like I picked one hell of a bad time to put this up. It's part 1 of Bryant Burnett's two part review of 11/22/63. It gives some interesting insights about character motivation. However, unless you have read all the way through, you owe it to yourself to finish the book rather start reading this.

http://honkmahfah.blogspot.com/2011/...an-112263.html

For those who have finished, enjoy.

[Princess Chardonnay]

I am enjoying the new novel enormously. Sending a person from 2011 in the past, almost half a decade ago, and describe his feelings throughout this journey. Only Steve could do that.I never missed to read a book by Stephen King throughout the years, but he still can surprise me with something utterly unthinkable. Looking forward for the next one Stephen and thank you for giving us the joy of reading your fine pieces of work for many years now.

[PrisonerNumber6]

Here below you'll find a review courtesy of Kevin Quigley, owner and operator of Charnel House, "A Stephen King Sight for the Discerning Reader." One thing to like about his reviews is how he always tries to relate each individual work into a greater thematic and story connected whole.

Enjoy.

http://charnelhouse.tripod.com/112263.html