{"id":1472,"date":"2013-09-22T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T18:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2015-05-31T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T15:00:21","slug":"112263","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1472","title":{"rendered":"11\/22\/63"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Stephen King, 2011, Scribner, New York<\/p>\n

My first comment on this book is that it is long … very long.\u00c2\u00a0 While the book was interesting and the concept is thought-provoking, it did bog down a bit at times.<\/p>\n

Stephen King is a very talented writer.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a book, he says, he started to write a few years after the Kennedy assassination but decided to put it down.\u00c2\u00a0 He picked up the project again and published this 850-page novel in 2011.<\/p>\n

I think that King went off the deep end a bit when depicting the what the world would have looked like had Kennedy survived the assassination attempt.\u00c2\u00a0 No doubt there would have been unforeseen consequences, but I had a hard time with the scenario that King cooks up.<\/p>\n

Did I mention the book was a bit long?\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not sure I would recommend tackling this one as I am on the fence as to whether or not it was worth it.\u00c2\u00a0 It certainly has its merits, though. \"3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Stephen King, 2011, Scribner, New York My first comment on this book is that it is long … very long.\u00c2\u00a0 While the book was interesting and the concept is thought-provoking, it did bog down a bit at times. Stephen …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,19],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-historical-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}