Or simply an easygoing letting ones´ grangrandgrandmother fall in love with one with the option of a menage a trois with ones´ own grandgrandgrandfather in the spirit of at least a bit of incest prevention and coming back less degenerated. While we're at it, sexism: our hero is a guy who starts dating a woman in about 1961, and he also spends a number of years teaching high school (don't get me started on that--an English teacher from 2011 travels back 50 years and starts teaching adolescents seamlessly, without having any trouble adjusting to the loss of the most recent five decades of writing to teach from?

Time passes as normal in 1958 but, regardless of the duration, the traveller will only be gone from 2011 for two minutes. After he changes history, he finds out that human events are so important that if they get changed as significantly has he has altered them, the entire earth reacts.

Fans of his story "It" may be excited to know he revisits the town of Derry, Maine, where "It" was located. King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 – from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life – a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. Summing up here: You’re an English teacher who was talked into trying to stop the JFK assassination via a time portal. Hosty eventually allows Jake to leave Dallas, mostly out of a desire to avoid responsibility for his previous failure to properly investigate Oswald.

Or, more positively, at not assassinated presidents that could have prevented wars, neoliberal rise, and general neoconservative backlash mentality, and thereby fundamentally changed and improved the world we live in today. Also, while I enjoyed the rabbit hole and reset the timeline rules, I thought the idea that you could bring objects back but they’d still exist in the reset past as a cheat and the kind of internal inconsistency that King allows in his work whenever it’s convenient to the story. It's a beautiful relationship the two have and the love story holds the whole book together, in my opinion. I'm off to turn my time travel machine, nearly finished, back into something a little less dangerous to the world like a cappuccino machine.You could try to hide behind the settee but you'll have to shove it out from the wall, and she'll notice I think. and showing the darker side: segregation and the two doors and three signs - "Men" on one door, "Women" on the other door, and "Colored" leading to a plank of wood over a small stream. He lives in 2011 and he finds a strange time-hole that goes to 1958 and he has to live life in the past before he can stop Lee.