11.22.63: Stephen King

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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. How drunk and marihuana high was he when he wrote everything between his first works and the end of his junkie career? In Jake's second time thread, most of his family members are saved, but Harry serves in the Vietnam War and is killed in the Tet Offensive. Characters [ edit ] Fictional [ edit ] Jacob "Jake" Epping An English teacher at Lisbon Falls High School in Maine.

Becomes a good friend of Sadie and "George" and admires the latter as a teacher, but is troubled when she discovers his teaching references are fake. After that, you could try more King, or move on and at least be able to tell your friends, “yeah, I read a Stephen King book *accomplished grin on face*”.

After he changes history, he finds out that human events are so important that if they get changed as significantly has he has altered them, the entire earth reacts. So he goes back in time to 1958 and he's living through these years waiting to get to the assassination bit and that's where the story becomes this I-Love-The-Late-50s-Stroke-Early-Sixties loveletter from Stephen King to his own childhood. The whole first section which seems, at first, to be a twenty-fifth anniversary tribute to one of King’s most divisive novels? According to King, the idea for the novel first came to him in 1971, [14] before the release of his first novel, Carrie (1974).

As a result, Jake loses his memories of Lee Harvey Oswald and spends weeks in the hospital and in a rehabilitation center. A constant suspense and wonder as the reader considers when- and how- we'll get to that fateful titular date, not to mention what will happen when we get there, and once we leave it behind.But what about the segregation and the sexism and the second hand smoke and the lack of high-def television, Jake?

Summing up here: You’re an English teacher who was talked into trying to stop the JFK assassination via a time portal. 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? is a novel by American author Stephen King about a time traveler who attempts to prevent the assassination of United States President John F.

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. Or, more positively, at not assassinated presidents that could have prevented wars, neoliberal rise, and general neoconservative backlash mentality, and thereby fundamentally changed and improved the world we live in today.