11.22.63: Stephen King

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In The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, there is another oddity when the gunslingers are in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, that seems to be the one where King’s The Stand took place. Part of Jake's time is spent in Jodie, a small town on the outskirts of Dallas; there, he becomes an English teacher for a consolidated school and becomes well-liked by the students and faculty for his stage productions. 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 plays here and there with timing and he lets us know in the afterward, but mostly, he sticks to the facts. The whole first section which seems, at first, to be a twenty-fifth anniversary tribute to one of King’s most divisive novels?

It’s how Al was able to accumulate money and a few other items and still take them back to the past when he needed.King outlines a clear end goal, and the novel benefits enormously as the journey to that destination unfolds. If you don’t have your history ducks in a row, it will be very hard to sell these themes, but King sells them very well! He does the butterfly effect trope creating ripples throughout time and improves on this by making time fight back, the past in 11/22/63 does not want to be changed.

the events that occur in the Dunning household are truly terrifying, with some of the most graphic and unforgettable descriptions King has ever written.

That's the last I saw of me until I got curious about whether there really was a portal in the neighbour's garden shed. He comments that they're expected to wear girdles sometimes, but he compares that to guys having to wear condoms and says that guys have it worse. His plan to do this himself has been thwarted by his cigarette smoking leading to terminal lung cancer. Still, you’re talking about saving a guy who is going to have a huge impact on history with no idea of how it will play out. Edwin Walker (a target of an assassination attempt by Oswald), and had a private tour of the Sixth Floor Museum in the Texas School Book Depository.

The narrator is supposed to be 35 in 2011, which places him in my own age cohort--but I think even someone 10 or 20 years older than I am, given the time-travel option, would have a lot of strong visceral reactions to the way the world was back then.

While we're at it, sexism: our hero is a guy who starts dating a woman in about 1961, and he also spends a number of years teaching high school (don't get me started on that--an English teacher from 2011 travels back 50 years and starts teaching adolescents seamlessly, without having any trouble adjusting to the loss of the most recent five decades of writing to teach from?

And the same remains true for the Land of Ago, the glorious past of absent airport security, no cholesterol warnings, and everyone happily puffing their way to lung cancers.For true alternate history, try Lion's Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America, by Steven Barnes. They arrive at the Depository just in time and Jake successfully prevents Oswald from shooting Kennedy.