11/22/63

This Audible book is broken into four parts. It\’s very captivating and interesting in the first part as we learn how the time travel option works. Then it gets boring for long stretches while our first person narrator describes his daily life. The funny thing is, even the main character starts spying on Lee Harvey Oswald, it\’s still boring. It\’s very frustrating to see a writer set up a great premise, then have his characters behave like idiots. Still, I was interested enough to stick with it until the end. The narrator did a great job with the text and characters he was given.

After the all the buzz I broke down and got this book, but oh how I regretted it. I had to force myself to finish this book. It\’s way too long with a lot of details that could have been omitted and still kept the integrity of the story. I wish more time had actually been spent on the assassination and the ending instead of some nonsense in the middle. The last chapters felt very rushed.

The romance seemed like an afterthought to an already amazing plot. Love scenes were awkward.

This is one of those books that makes you wonder whether the author is editor-proof. It is slow without creating texture or character. The plot is a distant relative to the author\’s description of 1950\’s Maine. For the right reader, it is likely to be ideal.

When I first got into this book, I was very interested and tearing through it. However, as I plodded along it got slower and worsethen it was capped off with a terrible ending. The book is largely about a rabbit hole that leads to the past, however Kings rambling writing also leads the reader down countless rabbit holes that add nothing to the overall story and just make the book longer and more tedious. I was also frustrated throughout the book by the many pot shots that King takes at republicans and conservatives in general. I get that he is a proud liberal, but it comes across as juvenile and petty. The narration was excellent with a few exceptions. I have not heard this style of narration before where many of the characters take on imitated voices of actual actors. Most were good (very good in fact), however the FBI agent towards the end with the Jimmy Stewart voice was terrible. I had trouble listening to those parts which were critical to the entire story. This is my first reading of a King novel, I was hoping for Shawshank, but it turned out more like Maximum Overdrive.

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