11/22/63 (Stephen King) - November 27/11

This massive book is as uneven as one has come to expect from Stephen King, but on the whole, it's certainly one of the novelist's better efforts as of late. This is despite a midsection that admittedly did infuriate me at one point, as Uncle Stevie spent pages and pages on the minutia of Lee Harvey Oswald's day-to-day exploits. But the book also contains an unexpectedly engrossing love story, the resolution of which actually left me in tears as the book drew to a close. Oh, and the frenetic lead-up to Kennedy's assassination is some of the most exciting writing I've read in ages. ***1/2 out of ****