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  • 11-22-63

  • A Novel
  • By: Stephen King
  • Narrated by: Craig Wasson
  • Length: 30 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (69,233 ratings)

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11-22-63

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Craig Wasson
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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

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Editor's Pick: Best of the Decade

A nostalgic trip
"Stephen King’s 11.22.63 is a technicolor romp to the past where the root beer tastes better, cars have more class, and listeners are warned to beware the yellow card man. I was not alive in 1963, but after spending 30+ hours listening to narrator Craig Wasson bring these fictional (and real) characters brilliantly to life, I feel like while I didn’t live there, I’ve at least visited for a long weekend. Blending time travel, history, a little romance, and political intrigue, this is an oddly feel-good tale—odd because it's about assassination and comes from the king of horror. The thing is that King also just happens to be a masterful storyteller whose best work of the decade will warm your heart more than scare the hell out of you." — Tricia F., Audible Editor

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My favorite book. Ever.

If you could sum up 11-22-63 in three words, what would they be?

Intense. Painful. Thought-provoking.

What other book might you compare 11-22-63 to and why?

In terms of length and depth of story, I'd compare it to other King books like The Stand and the Talisman.

Which scene was your favorite?

I have a favorite, but don't want to give away any spoilers.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes. It was a very long book and took a couple of weeks, but I never WANTED to put it down.

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It's been a couple of years since I read this one and it's still with me. I've never been so affected by fictional characters! I still feel their joys and pain, and my favorite scene still makes my heart hurt. I didn't want it to end.

I will give it another year, then listen again. The Stand was my favorite book ever since it first came out--until 11-22-63, so it dethroned a masterpiece.

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Best book ever!

I was so holy captured by this book, I would excuse myself from people just to go continue reading it! I would suggest this book to anyone who likes reading any type of novel!

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Goosebumps, laughs and tears.

There is noting I can add that hasn't been said already. I love this book. It moved me. The story and vocal performance are incredible.

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other than

other than is anti gun spill in the afterward it was a fun and entertaining book

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WOW JFK

I lovedit! !!!. Good reasons why you can't change the past. You will stop saying if only I could go back

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Cannot Put Done

Great book for those that enjoy history with a twist. Suspense and romance that keeps you on the edge of your seat.
Highly recommend

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Classic King

Typical King read and well performed. As an avid King reader, I would rate this right up there with Bag of Bones, The Talisman and the Stand.

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Great

One of the best stories and wonderful reading... Strongly suggest anyone who loves a good narrative.

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A Twisted History

Stephen King is as always an excellent storyteller he could even make u feel sympathy 4 the devil.
It was a compelling story&an interesting idea.
But as always S. K. injects his political ideology&anti-religeous bias into his works, which is his right. But you don't have a right to ur own facts.
He laments our times, while lauding the past, yet refuses to acknowledge who's policies led us here, he laments the racism of the past, yet again fails to acknowldge who's policies supported that issue, and attacks, wh chaacter assassination , the very people who made that era better.

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Awesome

This was an amazing story. Very detailed and the narrator was incredible. Highly recommend this to anyone.

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