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11.22.63: Stephen King

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The Green Card Man says that he is part of a group of people who monitor time-slips, and who are often driven to insanity because of the many realities that are created when someone travels to the past. Instead of people who read horror stories, people who read The Help or People of the Book might like this book". One of the students, a janitor named Harry Dunning, submits an assignment describing the night his alcoholic father murdered his mother and siblings with a hammer and injured Harry, causing him to have a permanent brain injury; the story emotionally affects Jake, and the two become friends after Harry earns his GED. And yet even though there is no plausible reason whatsoever for this to be the case, I will nonetheless accept it as true and simply go back a-fucking-GAIN just to undo what I spent 800 pages doing. King first talked publicly about the idea in Marvel Spotlight magazine issue The Dark Tower (January 27, 2007), prior to the beginning of the ongoing comic book adaptation of his Dark Tower series.

Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.

After he changes history, he finds out that human events are so important that if they get changed as significantly has he has altered them, the entire earth reacts. After remembering Al's notebook, he retrieves it and forms a plan to kill Oswald in the Texas School Book Depository on the day of the assassination. The attention to detail is staggering - I personally cannot say how much of it is accurate as I don't know much about the JFK assassination - but I'm guessing King left no stone unturned.

I will fuck up several times, but that is no problem because I have no life and therefore I will simply go back in time again and repeat the experience until I get things right. It may sound weird that, given a book that's far too long, I'd be complaining about a lack of words, but it's more that the things King chooses to say often don't contribute to the storytelling (or plotting or character development or setting) and instead are meaningless, repetitive, and make the lack of significant detail all the more conspicuous by its absence. I’ll admit that it sounds like you have good intentions, but you know what the road to hell is paved with. Sai King, I will continue to be your Constant Reader for hopefully many more years to come, Capital-L Literature or not.

So the "dramatic" parts of the story involve our hero attempting to get to his destination and, for example, having to stop for green lights while traffic barrels through in the other direction, then having to go deal with his overwhelming diarrhea, then having to talk some completely random guy out of shooting him for a nonsense reason. And that's it: he does nothing else to show how the experience of drinking at a 1958 soda fountain would be different from the experience that someone born in the late 1970s would be used to at a diner in the 21st century. Know that you might devour it, or might need to set it down and take a break from it from time to time. Otherwise, he conveys no sense in the least that girls or women might have an easier time of things in 2011 than they do in 1961.

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