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With so many jaw-dropping moments and unexpected twists, King will keep you enthralled for the whole story.

The worlds that you can get lost in with King as your guide are limitless. This story of time travel, the opportunity to change an outcome from bad to good, and the earthshattering butterfly effect create such a mind-bending read.

#StephenKing #112263

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BarkingMadRead

11.22.63 | Stephen King

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Roary47 I really enjoyed this one from King. The book was a chuckster, but it was so fun to read I didn‘t really notice or mind. Normally, I don‘t like time jumping, but King made it manageable so I wasn‘t lost. Yes, he was mostly in the past which helped. I‘m happy with the conclusion as well. I was trying to figure out how the yellow/black card man was connected and that supernatural element made the most sense. 1y

BookwormAHN I also really enjoyed this one. I thought the yellow card men were fascinating. I hope they pop up again in a future book 🤞🏻 Also I loved the scenes with Bev and Ritchie. It was one of my favorites. 1y

BarkingMadRead @BookwormAHN yes! I loved that glimpse of Bev and Richie “mid story” for them! 1y

KathyWheeler @BookwormAHN I hope the yellow card men appear in a future book as well. This is one of my favorite King books. I think he handles the time jumps really well. 1y

bthegood This is one of my favorite King novels - I love that he incorporates characters from other stories (including the town of Derry) but if you didn't read the other stories it didn't take away from this one. I like that he looks deeper than the “butterfly effect“ - he examines the what ifs of falling in love in the past, and wanting to stay with someone (or bring them back with you) - (edited) 1y

5feet.of.fury Loved it! I‘m not the biggest history buff so I am super curious as to how much research was done to the different theories. it‘s such a good story. I loved Sadie and all they went through together. 1y

Erinsuereads This is the first king I ever read! 🙌🙌 And still one of my favorites 😍 I like to recommend this one to people who are king-curious and almost always ita a hit 1y

Reading.w.Dee I second how he creates whole worlds and connects them within each other. I definitely enjoyed that in this one! And I agree, the Yellow Card Man had me extremely curious! There are so many layers to his novels that, even thought it was long, it kept you enthralled the whole time! Thank you for motivating me to read this one! 1y

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GingerAntics

11/22/63: A Novel | Stephen King

so-so

This door stop was my first Stephen King novel and will probably also be my last. The story is compelling. King really makes you care about the characters from the very beginning. It‘s almost ridiculously long, though.
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GingerAntics Also, there are some glaring mistakes (Dallas is in NORTH Texas, not central Texas, Dallas didn‘t have a basketball team in 1963 and it certainly wouldn‘t have been called the Dallas Spurs, big screens in sports arenas didn‘t exist until 1985, etc.) that took a basic Google search each. Sadly, King didn‘t do any of them. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3y

GingerAntics King‘s own author‘s note talks about all the research he did on the assassination, Oswald, etc., but somehow he still managed to get the name of the intersection at which JFK was assassinated WRONG (a fact that shouldn‘t even require a Google search for someone who put off the writing of this book in the 70s because the wound of that day was still too raw). 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3y

GingerAntics His description of Dallas is spot on, at least for Dallas today. #StephenKing #112263 #audiobook 3y

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JazzFeathers What a disappointment! Maybe historical fiction isn't for him 🤷 When was this book written? I can't remember. Maybe Google wasn't as wide available at the time? It sounds so odd that he made such stupid mistakes. 3y

Traci1 FWIW, I love King, but I didn't love (or really like) this one. The Stand is one of my favorite books (at nearly 1,200 pages), but I thought this one was way too long and kinda boring. 3y

GingerAntics @Traci1 it did drag a bit in places, but if he‘d left out the glaringly obvious things that were wrong, I would have given this a pick. The story itself was good and it‘s really well written. 3y

GingerAntics @JazzFeathers it was published November 8, 2011. Google was big enough to launch Google+ by then. “Google” was being used as a verb as early as 2005, so it was certainly available. He started it in the 70s, but you‘d think he‘d go back and double check everything. I wonder when the last two sections were written, because those were really the big offenders here. 3y

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GingerAntics

11/22/63: A Novel | Stephen King

Welcome to America!!! We got a TON of these. Probably more today than there were immediately after the assassination.
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GingerAntics

11/22/63: A Novel | Stephen King

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They still sell this stuff. It‘s still very popular.
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GingerAntics

11/22/63: A Novel | Stephen King

SERIOUSLY?! Seriously?! Does Stephen King seriously not know the MOST FAMOUS INTERSECTION IN DALLAS?! He was 16 bloody years old when this happened in the present. Did he seriously FORGET THAT INTERSECTION?! HOW?! As a high school student (2001), I knew exactly where I was (it was a little spooky) when I was on the Elm St bus, crossing Houston St. FOR. THE. EVER. LOVING. LOVE!!! He‘s trying now.
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GingerAntics @julesG I‘m SO close to the end of this tomb, but oh my god he‘s making it harder and harder as we get there. Is he doing it on purpose? Is this supposed to be King trying to prevent readers from getting to the end like history is trying to prevent the MC from stopping Oswald?! I really want to know what happens to the MC, but King is making this as hard. as. possible. 🤬🤬🤬 3y

julesG One of the reasons I haven't read a lot of historical fiction this year - and "The Chronicles of St Mary's" doesn't count, that's (whispers) Time Travel - I get too annoyed with the authors and their MCs. Recently listened to a German historical fiction set at the time of the third crusade. I was astonished at some of the medical procedures and their modern accuracy. I didn't check, but those procedures felt too modern for late 12th century. 3y

GingerAntics @julesG it would depend, but some of the procedures they had are far more advanced than we give them credit for. They rarely knew why it worked, their series were sometimes amusing, but they did them. Of course, there‘s a limit of course. 3y

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julesG See that's what I didn't write in my last comment. I know they did some advanced surgery, but they didn't know WHY it worked. Yet this boisterous surgeon gives detailed explanations of what happened inside the body and why he did what he did; and THAT seems strange to me. (medieval and medical history were some of my research areas, can't remember a medieval surgeon describing a pneumonthorax and subsequent heart failure in details. 3y

GingerAntics @julesG no way. Absolutely not. Yeah, I don‘t buy that at all. Was he a time traveler that checked out MRIs and CT scans before heading back? 😂🤣😂 3y

julesG He would have had to either take the patient with him to the future, or have MRI and CT scanners in his Tardis. 😂😂😂 3y

julesG Or maybe he was an ancestor of Superman and had x-ray vision. 3y

julesG 😂😂😂 Wouldn't that make for an interesting short story? Time travels with Superman to the third crusade, not to damage the time line, just to work as a field medic. 🤣🤣🤣 3y

GingerAntics @julesG 🤣😂🤣 I think I would read that!!! Hadn‘t thought of the TARDIS. That‘s also a valid option. 😂🤣😂 3y

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GingerAntics

11/22/63: A Novel | Stephen King

One. Bloody. Google search, King!!! Seriously, he didn‘t even try.
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GingerAntics

11/22/63: A Novel | Stephen King

Total BS. The Spurs originally were in Dallas under a different name, but not until 1967, 4 years after this story is happening. Never mind that big screens showing basketball (or any other sport - they started in baseball in the US actually) weren‘t even a thing until 1985. It seems like King isn‘t even trying now. For. The. Love.
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julesG Oh recent history. Wouldn't have picked that up. BUT you're right, King should have done his homework. 3y

GingerAntics @julesG it‘s not even HARD to find. It took 2 google searches. Come on, man. I thought it would be interesting - it has time travel and I was a historical museum intern in Dallas - but little by little it‘s beginning to annoy the living daylights out of me. 3y

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Birdsong28 If it's recent history then he would know that people can easily check this kind of stuff out how did he think he would get away with this? 3y

GingerAntics @Birdsong28 I would LOVE to ask him that. Is it supposed to be that his MC going back in time changed history and gave them technology 22 years early. 🤷🏼‍♀️ It‘s a hot mess in Part V. 3y

dylanisreading I'm definitely skipping this book, especially after reading your review! 3y

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GingerAntics

11/22/63: A Novel | Stephen King

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This book is pretty heavy in places, but then it has these little nuggets of comic relief.
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GingerAntics

11/22/63: A Novel | Stephen King

This is driving me NUTS!!! Why is King continually referring to DFW as “Central Texas”? DFW is NORTH Texas. 🙄 Did he write this before there was the internet? Before there was the ability to watch a local newscast online? That‘s seriously all it would have taken to get this important detail right.
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marleed That would drive me nuts too. I lived in South Texas but bordering on Hill Country for five years. The state is so big that the locale description is akin to intra-states. Maybe one has to live there before they understand that description is not just a nuance. 3y

GingerAntics @marleed maybe. I know in DFW, you pretty much can‘t go a news cast without someone mentioning “here in North Texas...” Wouldn‘t you think, if you‘re Stephen King, you‘d ask some folks that live there at least? 3y

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