11/22/63

I liked it. Long, like most Stephen King books but an easy read that most should get through quickly (if they make the time). I think a lot could have been left out and it would have been as good. I also wish it had been a little more about time travel/1963/ the JFK assassination than a gooey love story that I really didn't care about. I loved when he talked about what 1958-1963 was like, the good and the bad (and required a good amount of research). I also thought more thought would have gone into the "effects" of changing the past (butterfly effect). 

Here is a quick synopsis:

Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, 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 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.

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. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life—a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.