11.22.63
If you love thrill, suspense, romance and completely destroying yourself, then you really have to watch (hulu) or read 11.22.63 by Stephen King.
First Mr. King destroyed me emotionally with The Dead Zone - one of my favorite books. But that wasn't enough, nope, he just had to rip me to shreds with this masterpiece of a story that left me sobbing like a newborn.
I became so enthralled with the hulu series that I purchased the book. To my dismay, the book is 900 pages and I did not have the patience to get all the way through it before succumbing to my desire to finish the hulu series. So reluctantly, tonight I pressed play on the final two episodes of the show.
And just as I knew it would be, the last two episodes were the perfect ending to the thrilling story of one man's journey to try and stop the JFK assassination. I don't want to spoil anything if you're interested in the story so I will only say that James Franco's portrayal of Jake Epping was perfectly moving. The story was full of all the right twists and turns and the book is fantastic because it provides more details than the series.
What I can relate to the most in this story is the universal theme that we're all searching for our place in life. We all wonder if we can make a difference. We all question why we were born when we were, and whose lives we touch. And then there's the most difficult universal theme of all - that the things we desperately long for are often the very things we have to let go of.
I'm so glad that this story wasn't told as a movie, because two hours would never do it justice.
I strongly recommend reading the book first, and then watching the series. And when you're done reading/watching this story and it feels like your heart's been ripped out, go out and buy The Dead Zone. It's the story of a man who has been in a coma for six years who wakes up to find himself radically changed, his fiancee married, and his son being raised by another man. It's another excellent story that garnered a television show (that sadly ended prematurely).
The stories that twist your emotions into a knot and keep you up at night...those are the stories worth holding on to, those are the characters you never forget, those are the tales that give me hope that one day, I too could write an epic tale just as groundbreaking.
First Mr. King destroyed me emotionally with The Dead Zone - one of my favorite books. But that wasn't enough, nope, he just had to rip me to shreds with this masterpiece of a story that left me sobbing like a newborn.
I became so enthralled with the hulu series that I purchased the book. To my dismay, the book is 900 pages and I did not have the patience to get all the way through it before succumbing to my desire to finish the hulu series. So reluctantly, tonight I pressed play on the final two episodes of the show.
And just as I knew it would be, the last two episodes were the perfect ending to the thrilling story of one man's journey to try and stop the JFK assassination. I don't want to spoil anything if you're interested in the story so I will only say that James Franco's portrayal of Jake Epping was perfectly moving. The story was full of all the right twists and turns and the book is fantastic because it provides more details than the series.
What I can relate to the most in this story is the universal theme that we're all searching for our place in life. We all wonder if we can make a difference. We all question why we were born when we were, and whose lives we touch. And then there's the most difficult universal theme of all - that the things we desperately long for are often the very things we have to let go of.
I'm so glad that this story wasn't told as a movie, because two hours would never do it justice.
I strongly recommend reading the book first, and then watching the series. And when you're done reading/watching this story and it feels like your heart's been ripped out, go out and buy The Dead Zone. It's the story of a man who has been in a coma for six years who wakes up to find himself radically changed, his fiancee married, and his son being raised by another man. It's another excellent story that garnered a television show (that sadly ended prematurely).
The stories that twist your emotions into a knot and keep you up at night...those are the stories worth holding on to, those are the characters you never forget, those are the tales that give me hope that one day, I too could write an epic tale just as groundbreaking.
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