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11/22/63 by Stephen King

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  • Release Date: November 8th 2011
  • Genre:  Thriller
  • Pages: 849
  • Publisher: Scribner 

I’ve always been intrigued by the cover of this book; one side shows a newspaper with Kennedy’s assassination as the headline and the other side has the same newspaper with a headline saying the assassination had been avoided. This book has had been sitting on my Kindle since it was on sale for  2.99 and after finishingA Thousand Pieces of You I was looking for a more complex alternate universe story and figured King could deliver.

 Everything you need to know about this book can be summarized from the cover. Basically,  high school teacher, Jake Epping, goes back in time to stop the Kennedy assassination. I think saying anything else would just get… complicated….

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Audiobook Review : Joyland by Stephen King

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“When you’re twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It’s only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect that you’ve been looking at the map upside down, and not until you’re forty are you entirely sure. By the time you’re sixty, take it from me, you’re fucking lost.” 

― Stephen King, Joyland


Release Date: June 4th 2013

Pages: 288

Hours: 7 hours and 33 minutes

Publisher: Hard Case Crimes

Audio Publisher: Simon and Schuster Audio

Yep, I’m reviewing an adult book. I’ve been listening to the Book Riot podcast lately where they discuss mainly adult books, and it’s made me want to get into more adult lit. Now, I read a few of Stephen King’s well known short stories like Children of the Corn and The Langoliers in high school. And while I never found the stories interesting enough to take on a full novel, I  remember the stories and writing were good, so I figured I’d start my adult reviewing with Stephen King….

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