11/22/63

THIS BOOK WAS SO GOOD, OMG GO READ IT RIGHT NOW. I think in a matter of weeks I've gotten addicted to Stephen King books. “11/22/63” tells the story of Jake Epping, a present-day English teacher. Jake often visits a diner, Al's Fatburger, and as Al succumbs to cancer, he tells Jake how he had stumbled upon a wormhole years ago that allows him to travel back to the summer of 1958, every visit a “reset” of the time before. Al convinces Jake that he has to go back and prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, a task Al was sure would change history for the better, but was not able to complete due to his illness. However, both Al and Jake discover the past does not want to be changed, and will do anything in its power to prevent change from happening; even the smallest alterations to history can cause ripples in the future. Jake knows he'll have to stay in the '50s and '60s for more than five years in order to prevent the assassination, and after so long of living in the past, he might not want to come back to the present after all.