One of my favorite books of all time was Stephen King's 11-22-63. It's actually a book I've been thinking about a lot recently and want to go back and re-read it. Since then I've read four other Stephen King novels (most recently Joyland) and now when King releases a new book I go out and purchase it. His latest release, Mr. Mercedes seems like a departure from any of the previous King books I've read. It's a thriller, and not a great one.

After I read Under the Dome and 11-22-63 last year I got hooked on Stephen King books. Earlier this year I dived into The Stand and Joyland which I also loved so I decided to give another King classic a try, The Shining. The Shining is one of the only horror books I've ever read and now I remember why. Although The Shining is terrifying it is luckily a bit more complex then that. 

I'm a more recent Stephen King convert. The first King novel I read was Under the Dome, and then fell in love with his writing in 11-22-63. I recently read The Stand for the first time, and am now hooked. So when I saw that he put out a new novel I didn't even read the summary I just hit the buy button. 

When I think about all of the books I have read in the past few years, I find it hard to find another book that I was more in love with from start to finish then Stephen King's 11-22-63. I am a sucker for a good time travel book, but what's funny is time travel is more a means of transportation and what really matters in this book is the destination.

I have never read a Stephen King book; outside of The Bible I have never even tried to read anything over a 1,000 pages. However neither of these things stopped me when I undertook the 1000+ page (34 1/2 hour audio book) thriller from Stephen King that looks at life in a small town after a dome is placed around the town lines. The book opens up at a snails pace introducing all of the characters, slowly building up their back stories and then continues once the dome covers this town. I have to admit I started this book around six months ago, got a few hours in and gave up. Read a few other books and decided to come back to it and give it a go. So I listened through the first few hours of the book twice, but the second time I got hooked. Once the introductions are taken care of and the dome comes down the book takes off. I am a big fan of movies/books that are based upon Apocalyptic settings. If you read my review of One Second After a book about a town after an EMP you can see that Under the Dome was going up against pretty stiff competition. What is so engaging about this book is the human instinct that overtakes the whole town. Literally the town of Chesters Mill goes from a small hick town to a Nazi regime in the matter of days.