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4.32 AVERAGE
4.32 AVERAGE
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I'm one of the many who believe this is King's single finest work. Gripping from start to finish. If you are put off by this being about JFK, please reconsider. It contains romance, mystery, suspense, time travel, history, multiverse connections and some of the most beautiful writing Sai King has ever put to paper. Transports the reader to a time and place most of us have never been. Though it has some of the classic King oversights and shortcomings, this should be considered one of the definitive American novels. Never wanted it to be over. Time is obdurate
I'm one of the many who believe this is King's single finest work. Gripping from start to finish. If you are put off by this being about JFK, please reconsider. It contains romance, mystery, suspense, time travel, history, multiverse connections and some of the most beautiful writing Sai King has ever put to paper. Transports the reader to a time and place most of us have never been. Though it has some of the classic King oversights and shortcomings, this should be considered one of the definitive American novels. Never wanted it to be over. Time is obdurate
This book is a ride. Did I love it in the end? Yes. Was it hard at times to get there? Also yes. This book was about 300 pages too long. Yes we want the story to develop and the scene to develop but it didn’t need that much tedium to get the point across. That being said I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the yellow card man and wished he got more screen time. I could have done with more of him and less stake outs and gambling. That’s just me. The concept of messing with time isn’t new, neither is entering a different world through a hidden entrance. But this one was done well. We get the consequence of time travel and a little look at the game of what if? What if you could stop this one thing from happening? Would you? Should you? This is a good book for people who enjoy time travel, historical fiction and slow burn romance. I think King really likes to take his time with stories and mess around in the minutia. I’m not sure why- perhaps to go on about his hobbies. It’s clear he likes classic cars, books, and dancing from the stuff of his I’ve read so far. He used this book to go on tangents about them in the name of setting the scene. I will have to eventually see how they repackage this for the mini series. The dance lessons prompted me to look up videos on YouTube so I could really picture it. I was surprisingly emotional watching videos of people Lindy hopping to In the Mood. That song is an ear worm if there ever was one. Reminds me of Easter and my grandfather and a cassette tape that my cousin ruined- remember when you could just pull the tape out of cassettes and would wind them up again with a pencil and hope they still played? Emotions are a funny thing and I have emotions tied to that song. I was crying without even consciously knowing why but it definitely stems back to that moment with my family dancing in the kitchen to that song. So I am grateful to this book for bringing me back to that memory.
If I have to read the sentences “the past harmonizes” or “history repeats itself” one more time…
El mejor libro del año hasta este momento, increíble viaje, no pude no llorar con ese final
Was reading this for my book club, barely made it to the halfway point on a 3x speed audiobook. Hated this, hate Stephen King, will only remember bad things about this book. The antithesis to War and Peace (and how DARE u reference Tolstoy Stephen King) in which one white man is the most important and influential person in the universe, who is tasked with saving another white man who is supposedly also the most important being in the universe, and their roles are so important that nothing will function without them. Oh, coincidence that the protagonist is also a middle-aged writer from Maine? Yeah no.
What will really stick with me is when the main character grabs the "bazongas" of his love interest upon their first meeting, a woman whose most interesting traits are that she's clumsy and also tall. Screw Stephen King.
What will really stick with me is when the main character grabs the "bazongas" of his love interest upon their first meeting, a woman whose most interesting traits are that she's clumsy and also tall. Screw Stephen King.
adventurous
informative
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
funny
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
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
Interesting premise and it's refreshing to read a book written by someone with a command of language and and appreciation for sentence structure. But still.....Too Damn Long. And ultimately not very satisfying.
I am a fast reader so I didn't spend a lot of time on this book but I can't say I'd recommend it to anyone else.
I am a fast reader so I didn't spend a lot of time on this book but I can't say I'd recommend it to anyone else.
Definitely a page-turner; after the first 100 pages, I couldn't put it down. That said, there were things that bothered me about the plot set-up, and I really didn't like the ending. Too hurried. An interesting premise, but I had the feeling that King didn't know how this book was going to end either, and what he came up with is unsatisfying. Almost gave it two stars, but upped to three because it really did captivate me all week.