What if you could go back in time somehow, would you do it? What about if you could go back and time and change history by preventing an assassination, specifically John F. Kennedy’s murder on November 22, 1963? Would things be better or worse now if you did that? Would the Vietnam War been averted? What if you couldn’t go back to any day you wanted, you had to go back to 1958 and bide your time until 1963?
You know something, five years is a long time to be biding time, and you would have to eat. You couldn’t take your 2012 money back in time, that would raise a few eyebrows wouldn’t it? You would have to get a job to earn some money to eat and have a place to sleep. Of course, you could make some spectacularly successful bets on horses and sports in general.
Five years is a long enough time that you might meet somebody and fall in love. You might like your new life. What then? Would you want to return to the present day?
You might also find out that maybe the past doesn’t want to be changed. It’s obdurate.
This might be Stephen King’s best novel. It’s huge, it takes a while to read. But I loved it.
Five stars out of five.
i bought the ebook and have been waiting to read it ..
That sounds scarier than anything he’s written yet!
I haven’t bought a Stephen King book in quite a while, after this review I think it’s time. Thanks Yogi!
I’ve read this and was totally rivetted by it. Five out of five for me too.
I’m going to try a sample Yogi. Haven’t read Stephen King in a long time.
That sounds a little different for him, too. I think I’ll give it a try.
That sounds a little different for him, too. I think I’ll give it a try.
Great novel, on page 742 and on page 666 the main character refers to himself as the devil and no where else in the book. Well played Stephen, well played.