I really enjoyed this book. I was not sure what to expect, but it turned into a "page turner" for sure. (It helped that I was on vacation when I read it, so 700+ pages didn't bother me.) 
 I was born in 1958, so the time that Jake travelled to was at the beginning of my life. It was interesting to read how life was then and how much it has chaned in 50 odd years.