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The Current Book of the Month is: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.
11/23/63 11/23/63 the day JFK was assassinated. Stephen King had an interesting premise or concept for a novel. General Plot and Characters (No Spoilers) I only really made it about 65% of the way through. So there isn’t much to spoil about it. The main plot of the book is there is an English teacher that is just doing his best to white knuckle his existance on this plane. He has a friend that owns a diner with some random pantry that takes one back in time. And when you return, it’s only 2 minutes later regardless of how long you spent back in time. Is it truly back in time? Is it a seperate dimension? Does going back in time truly affect time linearly? There is a lot to try and wrap your mind around if you are a deep thinker. I did get lost in my head several times. ...
I want to make it clear right from the start that I did not finish this book. I just couldn’t do it. War of the Worlds was a book that I’ve looked forward to reading long before we started the book club. It’s one of those history things you hear about. As a historian myself, I know the story behind the radio play, so I was very excited finally to read the book that inspired that. ...