She becomes angry at his refusal to tell Sadie what he is up to, but remains Jake's ally when he and Sadie are injured. There are piles of documentation showing that Kennedy had no intention of escalating the war in Vietnam. He also told me it would be okay to put up the original version of the ending but I need to wait at least a month before doing so to give more people the chance to read it as published. Instead, I'll end by saying that there are books out there that accomplish what King is trying to do, using well-chosen words (and fewer of them), thoughtful plots, and skilled character development. 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.

Oh, well, I guess we did think that saving JFK would make things much better, but we don’t think there’s a big conspiracy. Hosts of butterflies are always in the air, waiting to fly around like crazy ass future-changing bastards. If you're an audiobook lover, I highly suggest listening to this book, or at least supplementing your hardcopy with it. For true alternate history, try Lion's Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America, by Steven Barnes. In addition to the regular trade edition, Scribner produced a signed limited edition of 1,000 copies, 850 of which were made available for sale beginning on November 8, 2011 ( ISBN 978-1-4516-6385-3).If you are wanting to try a Stephen King book, but don't know if you will like all the horror, read this! Following Oswald and other bad guys around was not very glamorous and I believe some pages could have been cut. I think what happened was that I loved the concept when I read about the book and had envisioned something more.

A school teacher, Jake Epping, travels back in time through a portal with the aim of preventing the assassination of JFK, often considered to be a huge watershed moment in American history. I know my experience would have been cheapened by knowing too much beforehand, so I'm not going to tell you what it's about in the style of a traditional book review. I found it unreasonable that after a lifetime spent having at least some African-American friends/classmates/teachers/co-workers (yes, even in Maine), a lifetime that almost definitely included watching The Cosby Show and Men in Black and very definitely included years of having an African-American president in the White House, our hero would be able to ignore the treatment of others around him almost every moment of every day. Notwithstanding some political intrusions, I feel it's a more adorable love-story masquerading as a time-travel novel. Meanwhile, Jake surveils Lee Harvey Oswald and his family, renting properties close to them and even installing microphones in their apartment.

It was hard at first because I had to go back through and fix some things we’d done on our trial runs again. However, even that above statement is deceitful, because that's literally all I knew about this book going in, and it is SO much more. As a result, Jake loses his memories of Lee Harvey Oswald and spends weeks in the hospital and in a rehabilitation center. As unbelievable as it sounds, King has written one of the most tender, intimate, and swoon-worthy romances of all time between these pages. Secret Service members shoot Oswald dead, but not before Oswald shoots Sadie in the process; she dies in Jake's arms.