Stephen King remains one of my all-time favorite story tellers, and this door-stop of a book was no exception. I have a tendency to lose patience with long-winded writers, but King is able to fill a thousand pages with enough grab-you-by-your-collar excitement and emotion, I just sit there thinking, "preach on, brother!"

Without wanting to spoil anyone's read, I'll just say the general plot revolves around an accidental time traveler working to prevent the Kennedy assassination and dealing with the problems caused by a past that doesn't want to be changed. It's a great, exciting story that manages to avoid most of the cliche' time-travel "paradox plots" that so many other similar stories get stuck on. Although changing the past looms large in the conflict, King doesn't harp on "destroying the space-time continuum" or any other trite, warmed-over problems. His hero is deeply real, and I found myself rooting for him pretty much from the start, even when he was screwing up big time.

Great read, and a great inspiration for an aspiring author like me.