Book 1 project

11/22/63 is a very good book by Stephen King who is mainly known for his writing as a horror style books.  Such as IT or The Shining which my parents claimed need to be kept in the freezer due to how scary it is.  Stephen King himself has been writing for around fortyish years and has had many people follow a lot of his series and books throughout his time as a writer.  He has had many good reviews such as on amazon.com as of April third of twenty twelve there are 1,538 reviews and 1,409 are positive reviews and that is only for his current book 11/22/63 and not any of the others he has written.  I myself have been a fan for only a year and a half and what got me hooked on his books were the Dark Tower series.  They were strange, funny; they answered all the questions throughout the series, and most of all they were touching.  The Stephen King we all know is a great writer which even if his books aren’t up your alley you would have to admit that he is.

                A book is usually decent if it has a good described protagonist, same for the antagonist, a good described plot, useful supporting characters, and maybe a love interest.  Stephen King has done this and he has improved it over forty years of hard work and practice.  His protagonists are described not in one go but they are introduced and then they develop like 11/22/63 Jake Epping the main character will progress overtime to help those he truly likes or respects.  “I’m not a crying man.” He says multiple times yet in one time, while grading papers since he is a teacher, he does because of a paper that is so horrifying it’s touching and he had to read on. So when he went to the past he had to steel himself to do what had to be done later on to stop that horrifying thing from happening.  “What is the most important thing in life, Dunning?” Epping said right before he put a stop to a terrible thing in the future and stop even further consequences in his future as well. 

                In many of his stories King has made his support characters always start out as such but they always develop into bigger characters so that you see them as the protagonist just like the first main one.  His plots rarely stay still his books have a motion in action, a problem at hand, or a turning point right about to hit you when you least expect it.  His antagonists as well are greatly thought out and designed.  They will have a story like any other protagonist and a reason why they fight the protagonist and any other outside influence to their conflict.  And of course many books have a love interest but his are a sub-plot within the story and more that affects the story and the after part like Epping’s interest into Sadie Dunhill someone you would read about in half the reviews of why this is a good book.   

                “Angel.  It was the second time I’d heard that, and I pondered the word…”  Is the line he says when in the past he saves someone from a lot of pain and misery throughout the characters life.  The first time he went through with it he had to stop a murder of a whole family from their father.  He did it but at the cost of one of the child’s life’s but saved the mother and the two other kids, but he later on learned that the other boy he meant to save went to Vietnam only to die on a later date and when he learned that kid said that Epping was his guardian angel that was meant to look over him only he couldn’t while traveling through time. 

                The book is touching and has everything a book needs to succeed and then some.  It has the plot, the great protagonist and plot, the antagonist, Lee Oswald and time itself.  “Time is obdurate.” Which is it doesn’t want to change and will resist so the saying time isn’t on your side is for once very unfortunately true.  If you haven’t read this book go to your library and pick it up now.