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11/22/63 by Stephen King

81 reviews

4anqelzz's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, Violence

Moderate: Suicide

ks_words's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Insightful on life in the 1950’s-60’s, fascinating story following everything from time travel, politics and love. However, keeping in mind the main reason Jake goes back to save Kennedy is because of all Kennedy could have done for the civil rights movement, I feel those points weren’t hit up enough. There still felt like a glorification of a still heavily segregated world, and focused more on Jake’s daily journey through time instead of focusing on the severity of the task at hand. By the end of the book I am left wondering if Kennedy not being assassinated would have helped our country or not, as there are more political players who make decisions beyond the President that could have easily plunged our world into the darker timeline Jake witnessed after saving Jack (granted the argument is there that all of the bad things happened because Jake had change too much)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Murder

markgruber's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional hopeful informative tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Suicide, War

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism

sofiam19's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Adding “jimla!” To my regular vocabulary 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Grief

sohare1981's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Racism

Minor: Cancer, Car accident, War

jennalistens's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Gore, Grief, Stalking

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Antisemitism, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

cgtull's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 51%

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all of the sexist language and racial slurs got to be too much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence

deathzilla's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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For my first Stephen King book, I really enjoyed it! Though its a little bit of a slog in the middle, I really enjoyed it for what it was, and not what I expected it to be.

Read most of this while on the beaches in Greece, and was an amazing companion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Racism, Sexual content

the scene where Harry's dad kills the kids with the sledgehammer is the goriest this book gets.

For reference, I love Berserk and even the violence is too much for me in parts.

brittbone's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence

Moderate: Racism, Toxic relationship, Alcohol

wrightndesk's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This was my first Stephen King novel, and it was a doozy. I picked it up after seeing trailers for the Hulu mini series, because it sounded like a fresh take on the time travel genre. I didn't expect most of the content of the book to not be about Lee Harvey Oswald, but rather just a moving drama about a man living life in the early 60s. I liked it, but I wouldn'  recommend it if you're mostly interested in the Kennedy assassination, as that really isn't the focus of the book. Despite the length of the novel, it was an engaging read that moved back and forth between cozy and tense. The characters were all very endearing. And I appreciate the nod to Bradbury, whose short story "A Sound of Thunder" clearly had an impact on the novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Racism