Anyone read Stephen King's "11-22-63"?

[SheilaT]

24. I read it a while back and generally liked it.

I do think, like too many of his books in recent years it's over-long, and could easily have been cut by a third. But one of the things I like about Stephen King is that he's easy to read. He carries the story along very smoothly. His characters always feel real.

But there's one important aspect of the time travel that felt off, which is once our main character is back in the past, he's never bothered at all by the fact that everyone around him smokes all the time. That character himself seems to be a non-smoker, and even though King shows various characters smoking, it's as casual and unremarkable as it really was back then. Which is as it should be, except that I know I'd go crazy to be back in that time, with the majority of adults smoking everywhere and anywhere they want, which is what it was like then. I was 15 years old when JFK was shot, so I recall that era quite well. I know that the smoking is one reason I'd not be too crazy about spending much time in the mid-twentieth century.