Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: I’m sure not every one of you is focused on world politics and you may want to get rich by betting for sports like Jake did. And of course forming intimate relationships with the people from another time line may risk your entire future as well! The idea of time travel is also dealt with. What happens if time is changed? What would that do to the world? Would a good intention to change the past bring about the changes we want? These are the questions explored in this book. I told you, I was an English teacher, not history. I don’t really know much more than what I remember from my classes in college. I’ve got Al’s notes…”

Not just because it´s US politics from decades ago I never knew that much about, but also because the postmodernist realization that everything has been corrupted made me choose irony and sarcasm as the only possible responses to protect my, already balancing on the cliffs of insanity, brain. For someone prone to US history, there could be obvious or hidden innuendos, easter eggs, and goodies regarding the whole big, political global strategy real time and life game. It´s one of the new We did not ask for this room or this music. We were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. We have been given pain to be astounded by joy. We have been given life to deny death. We did not ask for this room or this music. But because we are here, let us dance."But King's approach to the novel is brilliant. The time travel is important, but it's the construction of the plot that is truly brilliant. Surely there is some small mistake because with so much travel to the past there are always paradoxes that don't add up, but I didn't notice it. King has this strange way of turning the most fantastical plots into stories about people who feel very real. He writes detailed and honest character portraits, so that these characters become so vivid and realistic, likable and flawed, that we so easily believe in everything that happens to them. There are a lot of bells and whistles in this story and its draw is Lee Oswald and the shooting of JFK. Yet, this story is really a love story. King doesn't write many love stories, but at heart, this book is a love story between Jake Epping/George Amberson and Sadie Dunhill. It's a beautiful relationship the two have and the love story holds the whole book together, in my opinion.

With his mission a success, Jake becomes a hero instantly. Jake, however, decides to re-enter the portal and redo everything to ensure Sadie lives. He begins discovering the consequence of his action as a massive earthquake occurs, leaving thousands of people dead. Ya think? I really wish you would have thought this through more than just doing a couple of test runs. You should have done that like twenty times. It would have taken you just forty minutes, right?” In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King—who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer—takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.Una gran enseñanza que me queda de esta lectura es que no debemos atormentarnos por lo que pudimos hacer en el pasado y nunca realizamos, o por los errores que cometimos y se convirtieron en nuestros recuerdos negativos más significativos. El arrepentimiento nos destruye por dentro y nos enferma. Debemos dejar de juzgarnos a nosotros mismos, porque debemos entender, que sin importar si actuamos bien o mal, tendremos que vivir situaciones positivas y negativas en nuestra vida. No hay forma de evitar las dificultades y los problemas, porque así tomemos las mejores decisiones, siempre aparecerán esas vivencias difíciles. Simplemente, hay que aceptar con gratitud los acontecimientos positivos que vivimos y afrontar los negativos con mucha actitud, entendiendo que de esas experiencias, aprenderemos muchas lecciones importantes que debemos conocer. Lo único negativo que mencionaré de este libro es que el inicio lo sentí muy lento. Esto sucedió porque en la sinopsis nos hablan de que se realizará un viaje en el tiempo para salvar a Kennedy, pero mientras la historia del libro llegaba a esa parte, sentí que no avanzaba el argumento. Fueron como las primeras cien páginas en las que me pasó eso, pero después de avanzar más, me acostumbre al ritmo de la obra, permitiéndome disfrutar escena tras escena hasta llegar al final. Obdurate. ob·du·rate adjective: stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action. King uses this word over a dozen times in the book to describe how the past does not want to change and makes it difficult for our hero to save the day. This kind of unleveling of the playing field is first rate King and his almost personification of time is one of the elements of this story that makes it so appealing. ** Coincidentally, I made a similar observation about Kennedy’s book Profiles in Courage where he repeatedly uses the word vituperative.

Stuever, Hank. "What Hulu's absorbing 11/22/63 tells us of the harm of dwelling in the past". The Washington Post . Retrieved 8 March 2016. Oh – anyway, you came from the very near future and you decided the most important thing to do was to stop me writing one particular review on Goodreads of one dubious Stephen King novel? Why didn't you do something more useful than that? " Well, I suppose so," I said. So I went inside. I made myself a cup of tea and one for me too. We sat down at the table and regarded each other with frank horror.

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James Franco film set crashed by meth-toting man on motorized bike". CBC News. June 18, 2015 . Retrieved February 10, 2016. Go ahead, book snobs. Proclaim haughtily that Stephen King is not Literature. I shall retort with a Pratchett quote, "Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book." And nobody argues with Sir Terry. I can tell you one more thing: there was something inside that fallen chimney at the Kitchener Ironworks. I don’t know what and I don’t want to know, but at the mouth of the thing I saw a heap of gnawed bones and a tiny chewed collar with a bell on it. A collar that had surely belonged to some child’s beloved kitten. And from inside the pipe—deep in that oversized bore—something moved and shuffled. begins with Jake Epping, a Lisbon Falls high school teacher assessing his GED adult student’s work, which was to write about the day that changed their lives. Jake reads Harry Dunning, Lisbon Falls high school Janitor’s work, where he wrote about the day his drunk father murdered his mother and siblings. Jake sympathizes with Harry and gives his work an A. Harry graduates with excellent colors, and Jake takes him out to his favorite diner, Al’s diner.