"11/22/63" by Stephen King

[bitter_suite24]

I just finished re-reading "11/22/63". For those not familiar with it, the premise is this: a man finds a portal (he calls it a "rabbit hole") to early September 1958. At first he goes back and forth using it to buy cheap beef for his diner. Later he decides to do something important - stay in the past for five years until 1963 and save JFK from

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[retro_rider55]

All I remember was the air-raid siren tests, scaring the fertilizer out of me. My parents told me nothing (I was 7).I've asked my eldest sister what it was like for her as, her being 15 at the time she must have had some level of awareness of the matter at hand. But, like anything else I ask her about times long past, she throws up her hands & blurts "I don't know!!!". I sometimes wonder just how much wacky 'baccy she did experiment with in her early twenties, what with the memory thing.

I have read the book; a friend a little older than her believes there were a few anachronisms in the narrative ("Did they have ribbed condoms, then?"). And when teacher-lady becomes freaked when the protagonist sings a 'Stones song that won't be recorded for another 5 years & has disconcerting lyrics, I thought the "What universe are you from?" remark from her would have been anachronistic as well, as the average jOe was not an SF reader so the idea of mulitple realities would have been somewhat outside her ken.