Arts & Entertainment: Literature
11/22/63 by Stephen King
I read a plug for SK’s newest novel on Robert’s blog {Hi Bobby!}…so I texted Mum that this would be a good gift for my uncle {whose birthday is 11/22}…and she ended up buying a copy for my husband…which I started reading…until she stole it back from me when I was only 100pages-in {then returned it}…and I finished just last night. Follow all that?
Not as bloody as some of King’s other lurid lits, this suspenseful saga is a surprisingly quick read. 11/22/63 is a very well-written blend of fiction and American History. Can Jake really go back to 1958 and stop the assassination of JFK? You’ll just have to read it yourself, daddy-o.
{I recently listened to the never-before-heard interviews with Jackie. They are extremely touching. And I’m currently catching up on The Kennedys mini series. Whilst watching it, I couldn’t figure out why Hyannisport sounded so darned familiar…
…until I remembered that it, too, was the post-Kennedy futuristic setting of one of my favourite stories…Kurt Vonnegut’s unforgettable Welcome to the Monkey House (first published in Playboy magazine, 1968). ’Cuz as we learned…the past harmonizes.}
