Bear with me, I have the flu and my mind isn't working too good at the moment. I managed to get to page 215 of 11/22/63 before I came down with flu symptoms. Even now I want to get back to reading though my eyes are so blurred, I can't even make out the words on the page.
What's taken place so far is Jake Epping's attempt to change the outcome of something bad to see if he can actually do it, but also to right a tragedy of the worst kind. A janitor, in one of his present day evening classes, lost his family and was somewhat crippled when his father killed everyone with a sledgehammer and in a fit of rage that turned the man into something not quite human.
Jake (aka George Ambertson in the past)goes back to 1958 to try and stop the massacre. I won't tell you what happens, only that time has a way of trying to prevent any changes from taking place. Jake doesn't quite accomplish what he wants and realizes that he's going to have to come back again and start over from scratch, but now he knows certain things that may cause the events to take a different course, or will they?
Another thing about going back into the past is that the things we take for granted in 2011 weren't even around in 1958. It was a different time and you have to find yourself adjusting to the changes.
This novel is Stephen King at his best. I don't know what's further down the road, but I want to make that journey with Jake Epping and see what happens.
Don't wait for the paperback, go buy the novel now if you're a King fan, because his stories don't get much better than 11/22/63, and I mean this in the most sincere way. The novel has been great so far. I can barely type, yet here I am writing this posting to let you know about this wonderful, utterly fantastic novel.
Enough said.
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