Thomcat
12/20/2016
Science fiction where the time traveler can change the past, but in this case saving JFK instead of killing Hitler. Why? Because the time portal goes to just one spot in 1958. Are there consequences to changing the past? That would be telling...
I enjoyed Steven King's soft sci-fi tale of time travel by driving around a few holes in his narrative road. I did not enjoy the time spent in Derry Maine, visiting many Steven King attractions (even though a few would be built in the future). Once our hero was on the road from Maine, I remember thinking that this would make a pretty good movie or television series - then finding that it was, now tagged for future watching.
This was one of the seven top-rated books on my "to read" pile, and this is the first that didn't earn 5 stars. Too much Derry and the story dragged in a few places. I also found the Yellow Card Man and his kin completely unnecessary to the story, even if they turned out to be from Seattle. Rated 4 stars plus one magic bullet.