King's 11/22/63: A Great Trip Back in Time

OMG, it's been too long. I have been reading but I lost my thought process. I didn't blog the last book that I read because I didn't finish it (that being Fifty Shades of Grey...ugh...Maybe I'll finish it, but I won't promise that!).

So here we go...Stephen King's 11/22/63 is a whopping 1900 pages.  It took me nearly a month of steady bedtime reading to polish this one off, but I found myself wanting to turn in early, just to catch up with the story. This is a very entertaining read, and I found myself thinking about the book during the day.

Here's a synopsis:  Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.

Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life—a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.

This is my first King novel andI have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised. I wasn't expecting such cleaver writing, but I can't fault it at all. In fact, I look forward to reading more of his creative work.