THREE Reviews Of 11.22.63

Reviews of 11.22.63 continue to be very positive, from both fans and professionals.  To tell you the truth, I enjoy the fan reviews most.  I have not yet spotted a negative review of thsi novel.  Of course, I haven't been looking very hard! 

Here are three reviews worth noting:

1. The Globe Mail's Robert Wiersema calls the novel "whopping" and "stunning."  This review gives away a lot of information.  Wiersema writes, "Rather, this is an intensely character-based novel, full of small moments and details, surrounding larger philosophical questions."  He promises the book will "thrill" long time fans. 
Wierseman makes these interesting connections between 11.22.63 and King's larger body of work:

"George's (George is Jake) first stop in the past is Derry, Maine, in the fall of 1958, after the summer of murders documented in It (the scene where George meets Richie Tozier and Beverly Marsh made the hair on my arms stand up) or that the novel as a whole is invertedly reminiscent of The Dead Zone, in which John Smith spent a novel building up to assassinating a presidential candidate. It’s also the little things, echoes of King’s books threading unobtrusively through the heaves and struggles of the past. For example, George is haunted by a car, a red-and-white Plymouth Fury, the same colour and model as Christine."

2. King joked on TODAY that he should buy Janet Maslin a Porsche for this review of his novel!  She notes that "he constructs an alternate reality in which the Kennedy presidency is not interrupted. It is not what his readers are liable to expect."  And she concludes with this energetic endorsement:

"The pages of “11/22/63” fly by, filled with immediacy, pathos and suspense. It takes great brazenness to go anywhere near this subject matter. But it takes great skill to make this story even remotely credible. Mr. King makes it all look easy, which is surely his book’s fanciest trick."

3.  Jérémy Guérineau at Club Stephen King has a nice review of 11.22.63 as well.  I enjoyed this review quite a lot, actually.  Guérineau  calls it one of King's most ambitious novels.  He also points out that

King "has performed a tremendous feat in portraying the America of the late 50s-early 60s, in rendering local accents (Maine and Texas)... and the lyrical and highly musical atmosphere of the time (the swinging 50s)."