One GED student writes an essay that stands out, however, and Jake becomes mildly obsessed with the massacre this student has described from his own family history. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning it’s fabulous gears.”Ībout the story: Jake Epping begins as an ordinary high school teacher, frustrated about the state of his love life after his divorce, and about how uninspired most of his students seem to be. “Coincidences happen, but I’ve come to believe they are actually quite rare.
I thought it had a bit of a slow start, but there was not a single page I would’ve changed. However, while I’ve felt that other King novels would be just as good in shorter versions (I’m looking at you, Under the Dome), 11/22/63 was not one of those. This writer is a master of characterization, and while the details of each person in his stories (and many locations which are also “characterized,” especially the places in this book) create a full and colorful image of each person and place, they can feel a little overdone and overwhelming at times. That said, I didn’t feel as though chunks of the story were superfluous, as I have with other long King novels. My copy is a whopping 842 pages long, which is no record for Stephen King, but it’s not a short book by any means. Plenty of time to hide under the blankets with a novel is exactly what I needed to reach the finish line of:įirst of all, let me start of with a warning: this book is a marathon, not a sprint. One thing that’s great about this freezing weather though is that it gives me an extra excuse to curl up with a good book while I’m avoiding winter. I hope you’re as excited as I am that January is almost over.
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