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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 85.222.86.21
Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 01:24 pm:   

I finished this last night. I read the last thirty pages in the kitchen so as not to wake my wife from getting her sleep for an early start. I cried like a baby at the end. This is simply a wonderful, wonderful novel that is one of the best books King has ever written.
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.159.145.243
Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 02:36 pm:   

I agree, frank.
That and The Dark Tower series.
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 85.222.86.21
Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 03:27 pm:   

Des - I can't stop thinking about the last pages. Beautiful. Heart-wrenching. It's already been optioned by Jonathan Demme, and though I admire his work, this book is crying out for Frank Darabont. King's wrote some fine books in his time, in fact some of my favourite books of all time, but this book is his Of Mice And Men (funnily enough).

As for The Dark Tower series, I believe it will be read long after we're gone as one of the finest dark fantasy achievements of all the books out there.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 194.32.31.1
Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 04:21 pm:   

You have me wanting to read it, Frank. Is it science fiction or fantasy? I go for years without reading him but always return to King in the end.

The synopsis reminded me of 'The Dead Zone' for some reason.
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 178.42.160.199
Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 05:18 pm:   

It's a time travel, mate. The Kennedy Assassination.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 194.32.31.1
Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 05:26 pm:   

I know it involves time travel, Frank, but is it of the science fiction ('The Time Machine') or fantasy ('A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court') variety?
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.66.23.11
Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 05:43 pm:   

It's the King 11-22-63 variety...
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.159.145.243
Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 05:58 pm:   

I agree. No possible comparison. It is what it is.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.66.23.11
Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 06:05 pm:   

And I've not even read it. I was being a smart arse.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 82.29.252.215
Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 06:23 pm:   

I'm just curious as to how the time travelling occur? By physical means ('The Sleeper Awakes') or metaphysical ('A Christmas Carol')? I love a good time travel yarn.
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.159.145.243
Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 06:55 pm:   

By physical means.
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 85.222.86.21
Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 07:23 pm:   

Don't ask anything more than that, Steve. Just go and buy it and come back and tell me I didn't over-exaggerate the point this time. I know you thought I saw too much in Drive (I still think I didn't, but that's the beauty of opinion), but I honestly don't believe I am with this one (:
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Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.253.77
Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 08:14 pm:   

11-22-63 was the best novel I read last year.
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Rosswarren (Rosswarren)
Username: Rosswarren

Registered: 11-2009
Posted From: 217.39.68.85
Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 09:09 pm:   

I put it third, behind Silent Land by Graham Joyce and The Concrete Grove by some chap I can't recall the name of. All great books that effect the reader in very different ways.
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John Forth (John)
Username: John

Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 82.24.1.217
Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 09:35 pm:   

Fantastic novel. Moved me more than anything I've read in a long time.

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