Stephen King’s latest book “saves” JFK
The holidays are quickly approaching, and along with the frenetic shopping comes a need to settle in for a nice night of reading. The one book sure to be talked about in the coming weeks is Stephen King’s latest titled 11/22/63. For those of you unfamiliar with historical dates, 11/22/63 is the day President Kennedy was assassinated. King’s book veers from his normal genre of horror, however, presenting readers with a fictional alternate timeline where a man uses a time portal to go back to 1958 in an attempt to kill Lee Harvey Oswald and subsequently prevent JFK’s death.
Conspiracy theorists can go wild with the notion that killing Oswald may or may not prevent the assassination depending on what you believe, but the novel isn’t about who did it but rather how to stop it before it happens. The assumption is that Oswald is known to be the killer.
As for setting aside that evening to read, you may want to set aside a weekend or perhaps skip the holidays all together if you want to tackle King’s novel. Why? 11/22/63 is 849 pages long!! Maybe it would be better as a gift…
Read on:
USAToday.com – Stephen King’s creativity lights a dark day in Dallas
USAToday.com – King evokes horrors of history in ’11/22/63′
(image of dust jacket above taken from StephenKing.com)
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