Time Travel - book review
I was sitting in the teacher's lounge at my alma mater when a nice young kid (20 years old?) sat down next to me and when I looked up at him he gestured at my Kindle.
"Reading anything good?" he asked.
"I'm reading the Stephen King book about the Kennedy assassination," I said.
"Non-fiction, then?" he said good naturedly.
I searched his face for irony and found none. He just didn't know who Stephen King is.
I was already feeling the space/time continuum weight due to the old school/teacher's lounge/novel about time travel/reading a favorite author of my teen aged years. Oof.
11/22/63 is Stephen King's fictional account of the Kennedy assassination. If you could go back in time and stop the assassination, would you? And what would the effect be? I really liked the book. I have always been a Stephen King fan and there were some parts of this that reminded me why. Some of it is not so good, of course, but it was a fun read and raised some interesting ideas. I am a little obsessed with what it would be like to be Lee Harvey Oswald's daughters, for example.
"Reading anything good?" he asked.
"I'm reading the Stephen King book about the Kennedy assassination," I said.
"Non-fiction, then?" he said good naturedly.
I searched his face for irony and found none. He just didn't know who Stephen King is.
I was already feeling the space/time continuum weight due to the old school/teacher's lounge/novel about time travel/reading a favorite author of my teen aged years. Oof.
11/22/63 is Stephen King's fictional account of the Kennedy assassination. If you could go back in time and stop the assassination, would you? And what would the effect be? I really liked the book. I have always been a Stephen King fan and there were some parts of this that reminded me why. Some of it is not so good, of course, but it was a fun read and raised some interesting ideas. I am a little obsessed with what it would be like to be Lee Harvey Oswald's daughters, for example.
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posted by Lea at 6:14 AM
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Oh, gosh, now I am obsessively searching for information on his daughters. I'm reading this interview now: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/parnell/june.htm
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