![]() ![]() 11/22/63 isn’t your typical King outing: it’s a time-travel novel about a guy who finds a portal back to 1958 and uses it to try to prevent the assassination of President Kennedy. I started 11/22/63 because I was curious, just from a technical, writerly point of view, what King was up to. ![]() (MORE: Stephen King talks to TIME about his 10 Longest Novels) But with 11/22/63, I took matters into my own hands. It’s like he was transmitting on a frequency I wasn’t calibrated to receive.Īnd plus Gilbert Cruz - who edits this blog, or whatever it is - is practically a one-man King bureau, so I got in the habit of just forwarding everything King wrote to him. Judging from other people’s reactions to his work, something important was going on in there, but I could never really feel it. I’m not a big horror reader, and his prose isn’t unmissably lapidary or anything. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read The Dark Half, which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. When I was 10 I read The Long Walk, one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. Follow only read three books by Stephen King. ![]()
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