11-22-63 (Free Excerpt)

De: Stephen King

Narrado por: Craig Wasson

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back?

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 listeners on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.

It begins with Jake Epping, a 35-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 50 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.

So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson, in a different world - of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere. From the dank little city of Derry, Maine (where there’s Dunning business to conduct), to the warmhearted small town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love, every turn is leading, eventually of course, to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where the past becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful - and where history might not be history anymore. Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying.

©2011 Stephen King. All Rights Reserved. (P)2011 Simon & Schuster, Inc

Sounds like a time travel story.

I enjoyed it. It seems like a great story from what I have heard so far. I may buy it soon to finish it.

Classic King

Loved it thoroughly! The Narrator was spot on. Will definitely reccomend to others in our group.

Disappointment!

What did you love best about 11-22-63 (Free Excerpt)?

It's true Stephen King. He has a way of writing that makes you wonder what will happen next and to be slightly uncomfortable about it.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Can't decide from the excerpt

What about Craig Wasson’s performance did you like?

He reads with a tone that compliments King's writing style.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Not yet

Any additional comments?

I want to buy the whole book, but it's cost prohibitive. I have to read it on my Kindle. That's OK for me but not my 93 year old mother. She's disappointed!

Intriguing book, great narrator

Craig Wasson has become one of my favorite narrators--he really breathes life into a book and this one makes me curious to hear more

Good excerpt

I wish it had more stuff in it telling who the people are but other than that is was super good going to read the whole book definitely

Mystery

The story is taking too long to develope. I'm confused. If it is a horror story, I'm not interested in continuing.

Excerpt changed.

What I listened to had nothing to do with JFK or Dallas. What got switched?

audible disaster

didn't listen book at all having problems signing to audible and its taking me in a loop