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11.22.63
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 30 hrs and 38 mins
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Summary
What if you could go back in time and change the course of history? What if the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless....
King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, 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.
With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Val Pope
- 11-12-11
Back on Form
Stephen King's books are almost always 'good reads', but this is the master back on top form. A superbly crafted story that evokes the world of 'ago' (1958 - 1963) quite brilliantly. I remember the Kennedy assassination and wondered how King would manage to deal with the event. He deals with it very neatly indeed! NO spoilers here - you'll have to download it to see exactly how he does it. The narration is brilliant - why doesn't Crag Wasson do all King's stories for Audible?
If you don't download this, you're missing something very special indeed.
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- J
- 15-12-11
Awesome!
This is a fantastic book, I thoroughly enjoyed it and didn't want it to end!
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- Michelle
- 03-10-12
"Fantastic"
Wasn't to sure about the narrator when I first started listening to this book, but after half an hour found his narrating fantastic. I had been a fan of Kings for many years and read everything he had written but he seemed to lose focus for a while and I stoped reading his books. I got this on audio after reading reviews and thought I would give it a go. SUPERB. King at his finest could not stop listening. Would highly reccomend this book to anyone.
Plot was great so were the caracters. Give it a go you will love it.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Helen
- 27-09-12
Fantastic
Really enjoyed book, well read and kept interest.
The one point I would like to make would be for female role narration from a female would be best, as narration from a man in intimate scenes just sounded wrong, wrong wrong.
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- Miss C M Clifford
- 21-09-13
Compelling listening
Not what I regard as a 'typical' Stephen King, of the kind that used to scare me years ago, but unmistakably King in the way he involves the reader/listener, and makes you really care about his characters.
The narration is superb, I felt Jake Epping speaking directly to me. Poor narration can ruin a book, this on the other hand took it up a level if that is possible.
The context of the story will be familiar to all, that is the Kennedy assassination in 1963, and I thought I might be possibly a little bored by a predictable story line. How wrong I was. I have now listened to this recording three times, and will do so many more times. If Audible announced it was deleting my entire library bar one ( and I am getting up to 400 ), this would be the book I would save.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Michael
- 03-03-12
11.22.63
I am 45. I grew up watching Stephen King movie adaptions which tainted my view of his writing. I recently read the Green Mile having always avoided the film because of my predjudice against the usual Hollywood treatment of King's movies. I thoroughly enjoyed the audio version of the Green Mile and so went for 11.22.63 on the basis it was meant to be King's return to his best. I could not agree more this novel is utterly riveting...download it you won't be dissappointed..
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- C
- 22-04-12
Highly recommended
This was the first audiobook I have listened to and wasn't sure what to expect, but I really enjoyed this book and recommend it to everyone - especially Stephen King fans. I have read a lot of his books and this is one of his best. It is a little bit long but the quality of Stephen King's writing and his ability to tell an excellent story meant that I didn't want it to end. I won't give anything away, but this book seems very well researched and that a lot of work has gone in to it (from listening to his afterword). As the book takes us back in time there are also references to characters from his other books including IT which, as another of my favourite books of his, I thought was a good touch. I have just purchased his book 'under the dome' in audio also, and am hoping that one it is just as good!
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- Joe
- 23-05-12
Best Stephen King book - of all
I've now read through this twice. It's my favourite book of all of Mr. King's oeuvre. The depth of the characters and the way he writes about each location makes you feel like you actually lived there with the characters. Not only do you live the journey and the reason for the journey, but you get to see the consequences. You feel the joy, confusion, disappointment and pain of the characters more so than in any of his other books. This is one of those books that people will talk about for years to come.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-01-23
Awesome!
A great novel performed wonderfully by Craig Wasson. I wept at the ending. Thanks
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- BDSnow23
- 14-02-23
Really engaging
Never read a Stephen King novel before but thoroughly enjoyed this. Everything seemed tangible and immersive.
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