The review aggregate site Metacritic judged 30 out of 36 reviews as positive, with four mixed and two negative. One of the students, a janitor named Harry Dunning, submits an assignment describing the night his alcoholic father murdered his mother and siblings with a hammer and injured Harry, causing him to have a permanent brain injury; the story emotionally affects Jake, and the two become friends after Harry earns his GED.

It is a masterpiece, no doubt, but also the type of story that is suited to King's old style of dialogue and flair for throwback culture. According to King, the idea for the novel first came to him in 1971, [14] before the release of his first novel, Carrie (1974). In addition to the regular trade edition, Scribner produced a signed limited edition of 1,000 copies, 850 of which were made available for sale beginning on November 8, 2011 ( ISBN 978-1-4516-6385-3). Jake eventually realizes, however, that de Mohrenschildt is an apolitical eccentric who merely finds Oswald "amusing". Al explains that he is dying and that his appearance is attributable to his having time traveled and lived for years in the past.He does the butterfly effect trope creating ripples throughout time and improves on this by making time fight back, the past in 11/22/63 does not want to be changed. The professor’s own novels would be prized by a more discerning literary palate and he would savor his peer recognition.

Along the way, they experience a bus accident and two car accidents, which Jake explains as the past trying to stop them.For someone prone to US history, there could be obvious or hidden innuendos, easter eggs, and goodies regarding the whole big, political global strategy real time and life game. In the notebook Al gave him, Al states that George de Mohrenschildt may have been involved in the attempted assassination of Edwin Walker. And a tip of the hat to Ellroy’s own masterpiece in the form of a rogue FBI agent by the name of Dwight Holly.

The past sends cars hurtling toward him through red lights, or it gives him an intense migraine headache, or it sends someone after him with a gun. Joe only told him that Jake had to meet Sadie again when she was an old lady but how that happened was completely Steve's idea so what we've read in the book was all Steve's writing based on Joe's suggestion to have Jake see Sadie one more time . Part of Jake's time is spent in Jodie, a small town on the outskirts of Dallas; there, he becomes an English teacher for a consolidated school and becomes well-liked by the students and faculty for his stage productions. Jake Epping is a recently divorced high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, earning extra money teaching a GED class.

I know you were because you did it, that's to say I did it, and I'm here now to stop myself from doing it. And that's it: he does nothing else to show how the experience of drinking at a 1958 soda fountain would be different from the experience that someone born in the late 1970s would be used to at a diner in the 21st century. With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.

I changed my mind many times regarding which should be the chosen novel with whom to lose my Stephen King virginity. They arrive at the Depository just in time and Jake successfully prevents Oswald from shooting Kennedy.

The other characters - Sadie, Deke, Ellie, Frank Dunning - were so well-written that I could feel them come to life (which actually can be a scary statement when the world of sai King is concerned). The planet is on the verge of collapse, and many countries are involved in various recurring nuclear wars. I'm not going into any more detail than that, because I don't want to give away one single thing in this brilliant novel. There are heaps of action, suspense, and easter eggs planted for fans who have read other books by the author (visiting Derry right after the first summer that the Losers Club experienced Pennywise was unreal).