11/22/63 excerpt

I spotted this first over at the awesome Lilja's Library!  (There are a ton of updates the last few days, so go check them out.)  King has decided to wet our appetite for his latest gigantic novel with a special gift -- a taste test.  Yep, it's an excerpt from 11/22/63.  Dread Central excitedly put news of the excerpt this way: "Few authors look out for their fans like Stephen King does."

The excerpt reveals a first person account (unless there is a change mid-book, like Christine).  The writing is King's usual energetic, strong prose.

Here is a snippet, but the full except is below.

On Monday, March 25, Lee came walking up Neely Street carrying a long package wrapped in brown paper. Peering through a tiny crack in the curtains, I could see the words REGISTERED and INSURED stamped on it in big red letters. For the first time I thought he seemed furtive and nervous, actually looking around at his exterior surroundings instead of at the spooky furniture deep in his head. I knew what was in the package: a 6.5mm Carcano rifle—also known as a Mannlicher- Carcano—complete with scope, purchased from Klein’s Sporting Goods in Chicago. Five minutes after he climbed the outside stairs to the second floor, the gun Lee would use to change history was in a closet above my head. Marina took the famous pictures of him holding it just outside my livingroom window six days later, but I didn’t see it. That was a Sunday, and I was in Jodie. As the tenth grew closer, those weekends with Sadie had become the most important, the dearest, things in my life

Here is the PDF from dreadcentral: http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/news/jun11/excerpt.pdf