11/22/63 by Stephen King

11/22/63

by Stephen King

Jake Epping is a high school English teacher who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night fifty years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination.
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DNF @ 17%
This just isn't for me.

King's meandering writing style (at least in this one) is not something I can get much out of (Like, I didn't need the hammer story, I really didn't and so far it has not added anything to the time travel mission...), so I'll move on.

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