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Dang this book is long. This started out as a 3 star read/listen for me, but I became progressively more and more irritated at its excessive length, so it was downgraded to 2 stars, and then finally down to 1 star. This just didn't need to be this long.
This would be a great book if you're snowed in at your family's ski lodge,* with nothing better to do than drink hot cocoa, play gin rummy, and listen to a long-ass story. Unfortunately, I am not stranded in a ski lodge, and I resented the amount ...more
This would be a great book if you're snowed in at your family's ski lodge,* with nothing better to do than drink hot cocoa, play gin rummy, and listen to a long-ass story. Unfortunately, I am not stranded in a ski lodge, and I resented the amount ...more

I had avoided this for awhile thinking it was a horror book, but then so many of my friends gave it high ratings and it was discounted on Kindle, and here we are.
This is probably closer to a 4.5, but the opening dragged for me and the ending near about broke my heart (that part is not a negative). Somewhere at the midway point and Josie I got completely drawn in and will be missing that night's sleep for some time to come.
While the time travel stuff was interesting, and the use of the past and ...more
This is probably closer to a 4.5, but the opening dragged for me and the ending near about broke my heart (that part is not a negative). Somewhere at the midway point and Josie I got completely drawn in and will be missing that night's sleep for some time to come.
While the time travel stuff was interesting, and the use of the past and ...more

Wow I can't believe it I finally finished listening to this book, it took so long because it was on 30 cds and I listened to them in the car on my way to and from work, and for me the story didn't really start getting fascinating until the last 7 cds.
This is a story of time travel, the way it is done in the book is actually plausible, the characters seem very real and because of that they make some really stupid decision as we humans tend to do in real life. The problem with that, for me at leas ...more
This is a story of time travel, the way it is done in the book is actually plausible, the characters seem very real and because of that they make some really stupid decision as we humans tend to do in real life. The problem with that, for me at leas ...more

I enjoyed this book quite a bit. It was very different from the few other works of Stephen King's that I have read. No horror or gore, just a very imaginative and interesting story.
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Wow. I didn't think I was a King fan till today. A great journey to another time, with masterful characters. And great. Plot. Twists
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Sep 03, 2011
Jacqueline W.
marked it as to-read

May 02, 2014
Casie
marked it as to-read


Dec 22, 2017
Jess
marked it as to-read