![]() The main genius, I think, of King's device is to keep us guessing for most of the book. It is simply an enjoyable, fast-paced, thrilling read which also happens to be very well written. The typeface is a handy size (adding to the page count) and there's nothing in here that requires heavy duty lifting when it comes to ideas or plot devices. The book is long - 842 pages and probably didn't need to be. ![]() When I heard that King had devised a plot in which a time traveler goes back and tries to 'fix things' by stopping Lee Harvey Oswald in that odious room in that depressing School Book Depository building in 1963 Dallas, my immediate thought was: why didn't someone think of this sooner? How could it not? In so many ways, it was the end of our country's innocence. ![]() ![]() The Kennedy assassination still lives in the memory of those of us of a certain age and always will. First off, let me say I'm not, normally, a reader of Stephen King's books - but having said that - how could I resist this one? Novemis a day that is burned in my subconscious, the day a puny little nobody murdered the President of the United States. ![]()
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