> Audiobook
> Orig. Published 2011
> Setting: Lisbon, Maine...for starters
> Characters: Al (.portal owner, dying of lung cancer), Jake Epping (English teacher, recruited by Al to change history through the portal.....)
> engaging right from the start
> "watershed moment" - comes from cartography...watershed is water flowing into rivers.....Al sees history as a river.....wants to change a watershed moment in history...Kennedy's assassination
> portal takes person back to 1958, each trip is the first...always to the same moment in time (ike "Groundhog Day")
> reminiscent of Philip Roth's "Plot Against America"
> paints a vile picture of Lee Harvey Oswald
> Occam's Razor: all other things being equal, the simplest answer is usually the right one
> Jake plans a test trip to change horrible beating the janitor received as a child
> I like the way King talks about the past as "obdurate", resisting change
> tension definitely mounting as I near the end
> Lovely ending!
> LibraryThing Review: Audiobook.........This novel is a great example of Stephen King at his best. The story's central notion is how each breath we take is part of the eternal wave of time. How many of us have played the ever dangerous game of "what if?". What if I hadn't gone to Coe College, hadn't met my husband there, then wouldn't have these four amazing children? Or even, what if I go to the dry cleaner's today versus tomorrow? In this case, what if JFK was not assassinated on 11/22/63? How many unanticipated changes would be wrought in the history of life on earth by changing one moment in time? Are you intrigued yet? The story had me completely engaged from the beginning. So many questions are raised and left unanswered, thoughts are provoked, and characters are memorable. A really great read!
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