Once again I find myself wishing I could give a point-five in my rating, for I really want to give it 3.5 stars. While I enjoyed it a lot, I don't know if it has a lot of rereadability which is something I consider when assigning a judgement on King's books. 
 For a synopsis, click on the picture of the book, or this link here: 11/22/63. It sums it up better than I could. This is a review, and I'm going to try to do it with minimal spoilers, though there is one below (it's well marked). 
 So, what's awesome about this book? Plenty! Firstly, we take a trip to my favorite fictitious Stephen King city: Derry, Maine. And not only that! It's Derry, ME September 1958 right after the conclusion of a series of events in It, which is still easily my favorite work by Stephen King. (It's over 1,100 pages, I've read it thrice, and probably not for the last time). Derry is just so fucked up, that I always enjoy taking a mental trip there, though you couldn't pay me to travel there in real life if it really existed; I'd rather be my cracker self in Compton, CA for I think I'd have a better chance of surviving there than in Derry. Our narrator describes the town like this: "On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smoke in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew." 
 PLUS!!! Beverly Marsh and Richie Tozier have small cameos! Oh, how exciting! Anyway, we leave Derry around the 250 page mark, head to Florida for a bit, then to Texas, and Dallas. Dallas appears to be nearly as creepy as Derry, and Jake/George can't fathom spending three or four years there without going completely mad, so he moves to nearby Jodie. Something he discovers is that the past does not want to be changed, and it constantly throws obstacles in his path. These are very cunningly done in SK style as some are horrible, some are lovely, others are in between, but all of them are equally distracting and determined to prevent our hero from changing history. It's fun to read about all of this, but sometimes the story drags on a little slowly in the middle 400 pages. 
 (view spoiler)[The next awesome bit is this: The man succeeds in his quest, and returns to the future to see what has happened. It turns out he's done fucked everything up to hell and back. Part of it is due to SK mumbo-jumbo with "time" throwing a fit about being changed, and causing occasional earthquakes, and shit. Most of it is due to what I thought was some well thought-out changes. I love making "what if" scenarios, and King does a great job with this one. He shows us some good and bad things that would've happened had JFK lived, and it's all believable in my book. For example, the Civil Rights movement doesn't come off very well because JFK was no LBJ when it came time to be an ass-kicker and deal with congress. That's certainly true enough. Then there's other stuff, but I'll not ruin it all for you. Suffice it to say that all in all the state of the union was not overall improved by JFK's survival. (hide spoiler)] 
 Another awesome part is how true to life everything about Lee Harvey Oswald was. I looked up his history as I was reading the book, and all the addresses, his interactions with various family members, their personalities, his friends, cohorts, comings and goings, etc. in the book all match up with historical facts. King did some mad research for this, and it shows. It's like being a fly on the wall. Our main character is very careful not to interfere with anything Oswald does for fear of changing his course even slightly, but he must keep an eye on him to make sure he is the actual assassin, and not just a patsy as he claimed before he himself was killed. 
 So, what detracts from the story? Well, there's the long winded, though enjoyable, part in the middle. Our protagonist gets distracted from his mission a bit, and we have a separate story going on for a while although it all links up in the end. 
 Also, King is a Democrat. I am not, and I have strong political beliefs of my own. Almost all of SK's work is lightly peppered with minor jabs at my team. Normally I just laugh it off, but this book was a little bit more heavy handed, peppered more frequently than usual, and (just to beat this metaphor to death) with cayenne rather than black pepper. I found that to be distracting at times, but certainly no reason to put the book down. Course, that is my own personal problem, and is likely not an issue for most people. Make of it what you will. 
 As for writing style, it's still awesome. There are many literary gems to be found and savored throughout the text, and I was delighted to find all of them. 
 So, there you have it. 3.5 stars, rounded up to four, for Sai King's latest work.