No, because every time you go through the portal, history resets itself like you were never there the first time. After that, you could try more King, or move on and at least be able to tell your friends, “yeah, I read a Stephen King book *accomplished grin on face*”. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother.

King, a native of Maine, has an obvious love for the place and one of the things he does well is ensure that the reader is there, breathing the air, eating the lobsters (or, in this case, the Fatburgers). I held my breath in anticipation of certain things Jake had to do, and then some twist would come out of left field, and I would continue reading in awe. Sadie, now in her eighties, spent the time between 1958 and 2011 doing charity work and served terms as mayor and in the Texas legislature, and is loved by the people of Jodie. Still, you’re talking about saving a guy who is going to have a huge impact on history with no idea of how it will play out.George de Mohrenschildt A Soviet expatriate who becomes a friend of Oswald's, inciting the would-be assassin with hyperbolic political rhetoric. Jake poses as a government agent and threatens de Mohrenschildt into ending his association with Oswald.

King really brings the humanity to Marina, his wife and their child and he even shows the humanity of Lee at moments with his daughter.He weaves historical fact with fiction with historical fiction with time travel with a love story for the ages.

But even there King manages to include some unexpected beauty - just remember Richie and Bevvy dancing.

It may take a person a moment or two to parse the significance (especially since it appears in the US format of month, day, year), but it will come to them eventually. But, in the end I loved the whole package – quick places, slow places, exposition, character development, backstory, etc. If you don’t have your history ducks in a row, it will be very hard to sell these themes, but King sells them very well! That's the last I saw of me until I got curious about whether there really was a portal in the neighbour's garden shed.