11.22.63: Stephen King

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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…”

Memmott, Carol (November 17, 2011). "Go ahead, judge Stephen King's '11/22'63' by its cover". USA Today . Retrieved November 18, 2011. Decidí leer este libro porque amo los viajes en el tiempo. Me parece muy interesante lo desconocido, inexplicable, sorprendente, excéntrico y misterioso que llegan a tener este tipo de aventuras. En 22/11/63 quería descubrir como Stephen King desarrollaría una historia sobre esta temática, mis expectativas eran muy altas porque venía de leer Apocalipsis y quedar encantado con su estilo. Después de finalizar esta lectura, puedo decir que también he resultado muy satisfecho con esta obra literaria. is certainly a step in the right direction. Although only a few episodes have been broadcast across the pond and with UK episodes arriving on the 10th of April, it’s already clear that this King adaptation is a cut above the poorer adaptations of the author’s work that for decades have plagued the smaller screen. About a time traveler who attempts to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on November 22, 1963.Groves, Martha (April 21, 2012). "Times awards Book Prizes". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035 . Retrieved April 30, 2019. 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. Al gave me some and he had a sheet of sporting events I could bet on to make more. Like I made a pretty penny betting on the Dallas Texans to beat Houston the other night. It was very cool to bet on the Cowboys before they were even the Cowboys.” And lastly, Stephen King did get wordy, but I loved all the characters so much that I didn’t mind. The characters in Jodie, Texas made this book for me. He gave the teenagers heart along with the teachers and the whole community. I loved every bit of it. also stars two of my all-time favourite King characters - Jake and Sadie. I fell in love with Sadie as Jake did. Sadie is brave, headstrong, resilient, and given her past, her outlook on life is inspiring. As for Jake, some of the decisions he makes (without giving away any spoilers) proves that he is simply a good man. To take on such an arduous task, spanning years of your life, is admirable. And with these two amazing characters, King writes his greatest love story. It is beautiful and heartfelt and REAL. It shook me to my core.

It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him away—a gruesome, harrowing story about the night more than fifty years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his life—like Harry’s, like America’s in 1963—turning on a dime. Not much later his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination. Epping gives an assignment to his adult students, asking them to write about a day that changed their lives. There is insight into Lee Harvey Oswald and his associates, and their activities prior to 11/22/63. The last wish of a dying man is a powerful request to resist, and so Jake finds himself in the past, a man out of time on a quest to save the world. Clearly, the fifties setting plays to King’s strengths as a writer: in the past he has referenced it as being the source of his youthful fears and therefore also his primary inspiration. Subsequently, the author has mined this era for some of his greatest work and it’s only fair to say that the same sense of confidence pervades the TV adaptation.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.