11/22/63

My second time reading this, about 10 years later. When an author as works like The Stand, and The Shining (not to mention huge worlds and explorations of them, like The Dark Tower series), it's hard to point to a magnum opus. Still, I wonder if this is it.

11/22/63 isn't a horror like many of King's works, not really. Yet, it features some horrific events, with the same can't-put-the-book-down grip. It may well be his most romantic book - and is there any kind of story that carries romance like time travel?

This capped a month of King for me, which started with On Writing (I suppose I read that in October, but I'm counting it) and included Carrie, Fairy Tale, The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, Duma Key, and ended with 11/22/63. I haven't read such a concentrated dose of King's work since High School. I had such a good time! It taught me a lot about things King does in his work, phrases he likes, and themes that recur in his work. Mostly, it made clear to me things that I do that I took from King over the years.