This is the first time I've had butterflies in my stomach prior to writing a review. The reason is obvious to anyone who reads my book reviews; I try to put a lot in them and also not to use the same approach as another reviewer. I'm also a huge fan of Stephen King's books and would support them even when he has one of his 'off' periods. Thankfully this is one of his (if not the) best books I've ever read and only goes to show his title of 'America's greatest living novelist' is not challenged yet. I have waited three weeks for the novel as I can't afford the hardback version yet and all my SK books are eventually bought in hardback, so this was a library ...  Read the complete review

I've been a huge fan of Stephen King's work for nearly 25 years now, even though I do find his novels a little hit and miss. Given that King's last novel, "Under the Dome" was pretty bad, but his one previous, "Duma Key", was one of the best he's ever written, I had high hopes for "11/22/63". This hope was mitigated by the novel making the shortlist for the 2011 "Bad Sex in Fiction" award. But a fan is a fan and even if the novel had been savaged by the critics and won the award, I'd have bought a copy anyway, especially once I'd seen it available for half price. Older readers and those with some knowledge of history may ...  Read the complete review

Introduction I've been a fan of the books of Stephen King for as a long as I can remember, when I made the transition from reading kids books to adult ones Stephen King was the first 'adult' author I read and I still remember the first book of his that I picked up, Salem's Lot. It's safe to say that I was hooked from the start and spent many hours making my way through his entire collection of works, 25 years later he remains my favourite author and is the only writer who's books I look forward to and who's website I am a member of. In many of King's books he writes a preface to the story he is about to present, he usually reveals some of the secrets of how he ...  Read the complete review

The subject matter of Stephen King's latest book - the alphabetically challenged 11.22.63 - should be immediately obvious to anyone with a passing familiarity with modern American History. The date will forever be notorious as the day President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. In the almost 40 years since, thousands of words have been written about JFK's assassination and I had some initial concerns about whether King would be able to find a new angle or whether it would just turn out to be another half-baked conspiracy theory to add to the pile. Thankfully, King manages to give 11.22.63 his own inimitable spin, crafting a deeply immersive ...  Read the complete review

11.22.63 is, at its heart, a book all about the Kennedy assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald but, as you might expect from veteran author Stephen King, ends up becoming so much more. It is at once a love story, a book about consequences and the dangers of what-ifs and a book about a period of time in America's history that has now been lost to us forever! Jake Epping is a high school teacher who hosts Adult education classes and has an inability, largely, to shed any tears, even when emotional. But when he reads a submission by one of his students, the tears come flooding. The story of how Harry Dunning's dad killed all the rest of his family and left Harry for ...  Read the complete review