Thanks to flawless art direction, the period details – the clothing, cars, hair, houseware – are as lush as Mad Men’s. How would neuropsychiatry and pharmacology explain the origin of his creativity under the influence of at least 3 to 6 substances that all, already as single consumption, have massive impacts on thought quality and imagination? I know my experience would have been cheapened by knowing too much beforehand, so I'm not going to tell you what it's about in the style of a traditional book review. Mimi Corcoran Simmons ("Miz Mimi") The DCHS librarian who is Deke's girlfriend and briefly becomes his second wife, until her death from cancer.

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If you don’t have your history ducks in a row, it will be very hard to sell these themes, but King sells them very well!The most important part of the story for me is meeting one of my closest friends while spending the night sitting in line in a freezing parking lot hoping for chance to meet SK. I can´t imagine how incredible this would have been if he would have written it during his high years when he created It, Misery, and some of his other, best works. As a result, Jake loses his memories of Lee Harvey Oswald and spends weeks in the hospital and in a rehabilitation center.

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Some of its critics don't like the crossover of many genres, claiming it "wanders from genre to genre". Jake travels to Jodie and meets 80-year-old Sadie, who is being honored as the citizen of the century.

Jake goes back to the past, and is told by the Green Card Man that every trip causes another "string", an alternate reality with a different past and different future. That´s especially interesting because King is pointing the finger at the extreme injustice of the economic system in some of his newer works while focusing on the traditions of hate in this one. Kennedy's assassination, hoping that doing so would stop the Vietnam War and change history for the better. Take Epping, who can sound spookily similar to the King of the excellent "memoir of the craft", On Writing.