Stephen King: "11/22/63" (releases on 11/8/11)
 

Just got this email:

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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination.

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Red Dwarf did it.

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960 pages long.

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Definitely looking forward to this. I really enjoyed Under the Dome and felt like King recaptured some of his old magic with it so hopefully that continues with this book.

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The subject matter doesn't thrill me. But I'm sure I'll give this a shot at some point :)

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This will probably be longer than Bugliosi's book.

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Yeah, going back in time to stop the (Lincoln/JFK/Franz Ferdinand) assassination is only slightly less cliched than going back in time to kill Hitler. About the only thing that could make this interesting would be if Oswald is having Johnny Smith type visions that Kennedy will start a nuclear war over Vietnam, and the time-traveler ends up destroying the world.

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Was tempted to do the Robot Chicken take on M. Night and say, "What a tweest!"

...But I like that twist!

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Shouldn't they release on Nov 22nd instead. It is a Tuesday as well.... or is 11/22/63 released on 11/22/11 too confusing.

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Probably too close to Thanksgiving, even for a gimmick.

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Sounds interesting. I thought Under the Dome was a great return to form for King, so I'll probably check this out. :)

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FYI, Cemetary Dance will be producing slipcases for this. I have them for a couple other King books (Under the Dome, most recently) and will probably pick one up for this forthcoming novel as well.

http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/x_cases003

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Other books, TV shows and movies have touched time travel stories like this. But I'm interested to see how King will take it own. I read a synopsis of the book on a couple of sites and I have a feeling that synopsis sort of gives them something away about the purpose of the main character.

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I'm in. I always like time-travel stories, and to this day Stephen King has never written one - until now.

This isn't the "Stephen King Writes The Bible In His Own Words" epic I wanted, but this will do, since it will obviously have many historical figures featured within, and King's interpetation of them will be the juice of the apple.

I also like the fact that I just stumbled on this - news of an eminent novel by King always peaks my interest.

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Time Travel? Stephen King?

I'm in.

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It's been many, many years since I read it, but wasn't the Langoliers about time travel?

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Kind of but not really. In that story a group on a plane fly through a time rift which sends them to a past time, but it is a dead world that time has left behind. The concept is that as we move through time we move through a series of parallel universes. As time moves on, so do we and the abandoned universes of the past are devoured by the Langoliers.

The concept is similar to a short story by Theodore Sturgeon "Yesterday was Mondy", which was later adapted into a New Twilight Zone episode, "A Matter of Minutes". In those versions the main characters or "actors" are thrown ahead of time and witness odd workers constructing the world "set". Like The Langoliers, the story also has the set being demolished after time has passed by.

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Still waiting on that The Stand audiobook Simon and Schuster ;)! This sounds highly interesting. I might have to check it out.

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Dust jacket (spoilerized for size):

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I like it, too bad I'll be getting it on Kindle and missing out on that cover. (Unless there's a friggin' sweet deal for the hardcover like there was for Under the Dome.)

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JFK goes on to found a company called Dharma to investigate his time-travelling savior. It all ties together now!

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Quantum Leap!

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I'd really like to get the Kindle version too, but the pre-order right now is $16.99. It will probably drop, but I wouldn't be surprised if the hardcover and the e-book wind up being the same price.

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sounds interesting.. can't wait to read it

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that really the cover? Stephen King is foregoing having his name on it?

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His name is predominate in two separate places, on the front and on the spine.

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I know, it's confusing. Here, this may help:

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Something tells me Buttmunker's screen resolution is set to 1993 standards.

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Does King indicate in his story which of the three or four gunmen who shot Kennedy (from different locations) his time traveler will try to stop? If he goes looking for Oswald, who was downstairs on the street or in the first floor lunchroom when the shots were fired, he won't stop any assassination at all. Best to try and dissuade JFK from making the trip. Or insist that he put the bubble top over the convertible. Or replace the Secret Service detail that day with personnel who were actually loyal to Kennedy and not trying to get him killed.

If it's another "Oswald-did-it-alone" screed, it'll be a complete waste of time. Another doorstop--like Bugliosi's book.

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lol - more like 1963 standards.

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I don't know, but if it wasn't Oswald and it was the Federal Government or whomever, then cancelling the Dallas trip wouldn't save his life, it would only postpone his death. If they can't kill him in Dallas, they'll wait for another time.

Since the time traveler in King's story only knows that Oswald is (possibly) the lone shooter, he wouldn't know who else to look for anyway.

So I'm interested to see where King takes this story.

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True. There was a plot to kill him in Chicago earlier that November, but the trip was canceled. And the Secret Service in Chicago never told the Dallas office about it. And there was a plot to kill him in Miami that fall, but...I think that trip was canceled, too. Yes, they would have got him sooner or later. And when I say "a plot," I really mean different branches of the same overall conspiracy.

But going after Oswald wouldn't save anybody's life, not even Tippit's. Except maybe Oswald's. Keep him somewhere else that day and he might not have been framed and then shot. (But then where would that have left the second Oswald?) A fellow named Richard Case Nagell, who feared being implicated in the plot to kill JFK, shot a gun off in an El Paso bank earlier that fall just to get arrested and wound up in jail, keeping him out of Dallas that fateful weekend. You could go back in time and save Oswald by having him do something similar. But it certainly wouldn't have saved JFK.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Paul_Pavlick

Let us not forget this assassination attempt, before Kennedy was sworn in.....

Richard Paul Pavlick was a retired postal worker from New Hampshire who stalked U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy, with the intent of assassinating him. On December 11, 1960 in Palm Beach, Florida, Pavlick positioned himself to carry out the assassination by blowing up Kennedy and himself with dynamite, but delayed the attempt because Kennedy was with his wife and children. He was then arrested before he was able to stage another attempt.

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Additionally, those same three additional gunman would go on to fake the moon landing and engineer 9/11. Their latest project involves distributing mind-control waves to the populace via smart phones. Luckily, these waves are easily avoided by wearing a tin-foil hat on your head. At all times.

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Those crafty, destructive devils. ;)

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I tried wearing a tin-foil hat, but it made me an easier target.

"Just because you don't think they're out to get you doesn't mean they're not out to get you." - Old Hippie Proverb.

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Ah there he is! We've been waiting for you to show yourself. Do you honestly think that after we went to all the trouble of killing a president and creating a cover-up that involved thousands we would let peons like you just blab the truth. OJ knew and tried to take it public and we finally got his ass. Please go quietly.

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The Twilight Zone '85 did it too:

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People, it was Orson Welles that shot Kennedy, acting under orders from Winston Churchill. He also ordered the hits on C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley which took place on the same day but received far less notice.

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No, Orson Welles was the Black Dahlia killer.