11/22/63 Post #1

For this first post, I'm going to give a backround to the book in case some of you might read this book. Firstly, this book is pretty big (849) so don't read it if you need to finish a book really fast. On the other hand, this book is very good. The main character, Jake Epping, is an English teacher in 2011 and his friend Al Templeton owns a diner in that area but the back of the diner if you go in, takes you back to September 9th, 1958. Jake Epping, obviously is pretty skeptical of this until he went in and just walked around. The trick of the rabbit hole, as it's called in the book, is that no matter how long you stay in there, it is only 2 minutes later than when you went in. Then Al tells Jake his plan to stop Kennedy's assasination, and then Al dies and Jake has to go in and carry out the plan. First, he goes back to stop a man from murdering his entire family with a hammer. He then goes back up to 2011 to see if one of the guys is still around the same area and he wasn't, which showed Jake that whatever he does in the past can affect the future. I think that is the emerging theme of the book. Whatever you do, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, can drastically change your life for better or worse. Now, Jake, or George Amberson, as he's called in the fifty's and sixty's, has a girlfriend who was just attacked by her former husband and her face got all cut up and now she's gotten very depressed so Jake is trying to raise money for her surgeries and stay at the hospital. Jake also has a notebook from Al Templeton telling the outcome of every major sports competition until the mid-60's. That provides for some source of funds but Jake can't place any huge bets because he doesn't want to look to suspicious.