11/22/63: A Novel

[IanEye]

Maybe I remember him shooting the guy because that's what I was hoping would happen .....

i only mentioned it because of the whole "Bin Laden was a coward who used a human shield" thing, and then how Firestarter has a setting, "The Shop", which seems obviously modeled on Fort Detrick aka "The Farm".

Plus, Hugh frequently mentions the Bernstein article from '77 era Rolling Stone which details CIA influence in the Media, and it is funny to me how Firestarter ends with Charlie going to Rolling Stone because her father told her that it was the only Media Source that is trustworthy.

I really liked reading Stephen King in the late 70's / early 80's, but now the only time I buy a Stephen King book is when he releases collections of his short stories, which I still enjoy, but all his new novels seem to be badly in need of an editor.

Perhaps Rolling Stone did resist CIA influence for a long time, perhaps Mr. King did as well.

[DrVolin]

King writes good characters and bad stories. His books always remind me of De Palma movies. With a couple of notable exceptions, I never finish them, no matter how often I start them.

[Harvey]

King writes good characters and bad stories. His books always remind me of De Palma movies. With a couple of notable exceptions, I never finish them, no matter how often I start them.

That's about all that need be said. His character driven stories, such as Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption are among his most enjoyable.

[redsock]

Errol Morris reviews 11/22/63 for the NYT. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/books ... eview.html

Morris interviewed King after writing his review.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/ ... phen-king/

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I read a bunch if King in the late 70s/early 80s. Only thing since then was The Green Mile because I loved the idea of it being published serially; I did not like the story much, though. ... I picked up a cheap copy of It recently.

[redsock]

King, in the afterward:

After reading a stack of books and articles on the subject almost as tall as I am, I’d put the probability at 98 percent, maybe even 99.

In the Q&A:

Conspiracy people guard themselves pretty jealously. ... But one of the things that sticks in my mind is that none of them has been proved. None of them. So it’s like U.F.O.s… If they’re really U.F.O.s, how come one has never landed, or we’ve never been given definitive proof? ...

Norman Mailer, who provides an epigram at the beginning of the book, says people find it very difficult to believe it could have happened the way it happened because it suggests an absurd universe. But there it is. The line is pretty conclusive to me. The mail-order gun that he bought — he used that gun to try to shoot Gen. Edwin Walker. And that’s the gun that was found at the depository with his fingerprints on it. And then he ran, he shot the police officer J. D. Tippit, and they caught him. To me, that’s it. ... The pieces all click together pretty nicely. ...

My wife believes it’s a conspiracy.