Thursday, January 19, 2012
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Stephen King is truly a prolific writer. Any author who can take one
event in history and effectively make it the theme and core of
surrounding fictional events is a genius!
The events of that fateful day in 1963 are, no doubt, welded into the minds of all Americans, or the world, for that matter, who were born during the decade. It was a time of change in America, when people were trying to make sense of things like race relations and war. And the amazing thing about all of this is that only a handful of individuals drove the events of that time period.
King does a fairly decent job of portraying the main players during this time period of Kennedy and Viet Nam and MLK and so many other historical events.
While I enjoyed this book, I can't say that it comes near to my King favorites, like The Green Mile and most of all, On Writing. He tends to meander a bit in this, like he's writing and deciding where to go with it, all at once.
Consider it, but my opinion...move on to something else.
7/10
The events of that fateful day in 1963 are, no doubt, welded into the minds of all Americans, or the world, for that matter, who were born during the decade. It was a time of change in America, when people were trying to make sense of things like race relations and war. And the amazing thing about all of this is that only a handful of individuals drove the events of that time period.
King does a fairly decent job of portraying the main players during this time period of Kennedy and Viet Nam and MLK and so many other historical events.
While I enjoyed this book, I can't say that it comes near to my King favorites, like The Green Mile and most of all, On Writing. He tends to meander a bit in this, like he's writing and deciding where to go with it, all at once.
Consider it, but my opinion...move on to something else.
7/10
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