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11/22/63 by Stephen King

57 reviews

lexkazokas's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging inspiring reflective 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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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

Adding “jimla!” To my regular vocabulary

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jana_17's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective slow-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: Yes

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longgao's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

A time travel story on JFK’s assassination. A fun adventure throughout, and a shocking and emotional ending.

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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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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

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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applesodaperson's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I have not read many Stephen King book (I think this is only my second one), but holy cow this is my favorite so far, and I can’t imagine something else topping the insanely expansive scale of this book. I know it sounds cheesy but the best word to describe this book was epic. I can’t even imagine the amount of research that would have had to go into writing this book, even just for the historical accuracy, let alone the speculative sci-fi elements.

This was quite a long book, and I would say that it had two main parts that it switched between. There was the spy/time agent stuff, and the small-town life/romance stuff. And even though I didn’t hate Sadie as a character or anything, I consistently found the espionage sections way more engaging and interesting. I just wanted to hear more about him stalking Oswald and planting bugs, and found myself waiting for his romance and school teacher life to end.

Probably my favorite part of this whole book was the way it portrayed the past as its own character. He kept referring to it as the “obdurate past”, and made it clear that it actively tried to stop people from changing it at every opportunity. For example, by the time Jake gets to the building where Oswald shot JFK from, he is so physically destroyed and injured from all the things time has thrown at him. I just loved how he described it as trying to break through a stocking where you have to keep pushing until it rips. It was a very cool literary device that made his task seem a lot more challenging.

I also liked that even though he portrays a very idyllic picture of the 50s and 60s, he still makes a point to mention how ingrained racism was in society back then.

I honestly still don’t know how I feel about the ending. I can’t really put my finger on it but something about it didn’t feel totally satisfying. It kind of made me feel like everything up to that point was a bit useless, because it didn’t amount to any change in the world. But at the same time, I don’t think the ending was bad or terrible.

Something I do think was bad though was the tie-in to It that he put in there. It just felt like a meaningless cameo that really took me out of the story. Plus, it felt even more out of place because this book and It are two separate genres.

Overall though this book was absolutely incredible.

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choco_bunbun's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous dark informative tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

OHHH MY GODDDD IM FINALLY DONE.

This felt like it Stephen King was actively TRYING to reach a word count. If he didn't beat you over the head with motifs and filler words/sentences, this probably could've been half as long and MUCH more enjoyable.

I think I could've really enjoyed this book, it's very well-written and researched, but this thing DRAGGED. It went on and on and on with descriptions and flash backs that took you out of the pacing in a lot of scenes.

Tbh... at a certain point I started becoming more invested in Lee Harvey Oswald's life than the main character 💀💀💀💀

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