Many people have attempted the time travel theme, which presents all sorts of problems, but of all those attempts this is surely the best.Īnd so our intrepid hero, who in good King fashion is a very ordinary man, goes back in time in an attempt to stop Lee Harvey Oswald from killing JFK. The supernatural does not play a prominent role in this novel, aside from the fact that it is a time travel novel. There are also about 100 others.īut 11/22/63 is a truly excellent novel by any standard. Nobody does the fears of children better than King. His very good books also include the dark comedy about desire, Needful Things the apocalyptic thriller, The Stand and that terrifying book of childhood angst, It.
This is not the place to go into all the merits of Misery but, even with nothing supernatural happening at all, it is a very creepy book with some of the most superb passages on writing you will find in a book of fiction. Now, before I try to sell you on this particular book, let me engage in that most entertaining game of asking which is King’s best book? In my estimation he has written two superb novels: the one I am reviewing now and Misery. Neither should we pigeonhole him as strictly a horror writer although that still seems to be his most natural home. There are few well-known authors who have written as many mediocre or poor books as King, but that should not obscure the fact that he has written some excellent ones as well. But then if I decide to review a King book, which of the dozens that he is written shall I pick? Or maybe that was a dozen written in the last two years. And people have sort of made up their minds one way or the other. What shall I do with Stephen King? He is so widely read that it might be a waste of time to write one more review.
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