Donate To Keep The Site Ad Free
+ Reply to Thread
Page 2 of 82 FirstFirst 1 2 3 4 12 52 ... LastLast
Results 26 to 50 of 2026

Thread: 11/22/63 Collecting Discussion

  1. #26
    Guardian of the Beam ELazansky is just really nice ELazansky is just really nice ELazansky is just really nice ELazansky is just really nice ELazansky is just really nice ELazansky's Avatar

    Join Date
    Dec 2009
    Posts
    3,014
    Country
    Country Flag
    Gender
    Gender

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by jhanic View Post
    Don't believe that there is any factual basis for Stone's movie. It's complete fiction.
    Wasn't Jim Garrison's book "On The Trail of the Assassins" the inspiration for the movie?

  2. #27
    Oz the Gweat and Tewwible mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae's Avatar

    Join Date
    Oct 2007
    Location
    New Jersey
    Posts
    35,532
    Country
    Country Flag
    Gender
    Gender

    Default

    I think this could be like a serious Back to the Future

  3. #28
    Roont Brice has much to be proud of Brice has much to be proud of Brice has much to be proud of Brice has much to be proud of Brice has much to be proud of Brice has much to be proud of Brice has much to be proud of Brice has much to be proud of Brice has much to be proud of Brice's Avatar

    Join Date
    Apr 2007
    Location
    Lettiland
    Posts
    29,625
    My Mood
    Aggressive
    Country
    Country Flag

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Cloysterpete View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by pablo View Post
    Other than Wikipedia, what would you folks recommend to read up on the JFK assassination? I'll watch the Oliver Stone film (seen parts of it a while ago), but would like a nice factual narrative to get ready for the novel.
    Good idea, Its not my history so I don't know the specifics, apart from there seems to be a thousand and one conspiracy theories going around about the assassination.

    Stone's movie was based on Crossfire by Jim Mars along with JFK: The CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy by L. Fletcher Prouty. I'm not sure what I believe, but I basically read everything I can get my hands on regarding the subject.
    The Awesomest fled across the desert and The Awesomer followed.

    If you rescue me
    I’ll be your friend forever


    I wish that I could write fiction, but that seems almost an impossibility. -howard phillips lovecraft (1915)



  4. #29
    Rabid Billybumbler Rahfa is a splendid one to behold Rahfa is a splendid one to behold Rahfa is a splendid one to behold Rahfa is a splendid one to behold Rahfa is a splendid one to behold Rahfa is a splendid one to behold Rahfa is a splendid one to behold Rahfa is a splendid one to behold

    Join Date
    May 2007
    Posts
    2,534

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by ELazansky View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by jhanic View Post
    Don't believe that there is any factual basis for Stone's movie. It's complete fiction.
    Wasn't Jim Garrison's book "On The Trail of the Assassins" the inspiration for the movie?
    Yes, partly...the problem is Garrison was kind of nuts, too. He's actually in the movie.

    There's factual basis for some of it...but it was a real stretch; huge chunks were total fantasy - Garrison didn't even give the pivoltal closing arguments in the movie.

  5. #30

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Ben Mears View Post
    960 pages...this will be epic!
    It sounds very cool... I can't wait!

    Best,
    Brian

  6. #31
    S P I R A L Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky's Avatar

    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Posts
    11,872
    Country
    Country Flag
    Gender
    Gender

    Default

    I'm hoping the JFK plot is just to serve as a reminder that we can't change the past, rather than the whole novel revolving around a character trying to prevent the assassination. I think that the latter might bore me just a little.
    A NEW GAME BEGINS

  7. #32
    Goldmember carlosdetweiller has a reputation beyond repute carlosdetweiller has a reputation beyond repute carlosdetweiller has a reputation beyond repute carlosdetweiller has a reputation beyond repute carlosdetweiller has a reputation beyond repute carlosdetweiller has a reputation beyond repute carlosdetweiller has a reputation beyond repute carlosdetweiller has a reputation beyond repute carlosdetweiller has a reputation beyond repute carlosdetweiller has a reputation beyond repute carlosdetweiller has a reputation beyond repute

    Join Date
    May 2007
    Posts
    7,531

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Ben Mears View Post
    I'll bet Bob has the ARC already!
    I don't have one yet but I really want to read it to find out if there was indeed a second shooter over by the grassy knoll. I've always wondered about that. Guess I'll have to wait a while longer.

  8. #33
    Goldmember Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future

    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Location
    Scotland
    Posts
    6,896
    Country
    Country Flag
    Gender
    Gender

    Default

    Who is JFK?

  9. #34
    Word Slinger Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent's Avatar

    Join Date
    May 2007
    Posts
    7,058

    Default

    He's the ambassador to the United Nations in the alternate Fringe universe.

  10. #35
    the Return of CRAZY DOG! Sir_Boomme has a reputation beyond repute Sir_Boomme has a reputation beyond repute Sir_Boomme has a reputation beyond repute Sir_Boomme has a reputation beyond repute Sir_Boomme has a reputation beyond repute Sir_Boomme has a reputation beyond repute Sir_Boomme has a reputation beyond repute Sir_Boomme has a reputation beyond repute Sir_Boomme has a reputation beyond repute Sir_Boomme has a reputation beyond repute Sir_Boomme has a reputation beyond repute

    Join Date
    May 2007
    Location
    austin texas
    Posts
    4,207
    My Mood
    Twisted
    Country
    Country Flag
    Gender
    Gender

    Default

    curious that the main character is named Jake - perhaps he is a gunslinging twinner

  11. #36
    Roont jhanic has a brilliant future jhanic has a brilliant future jhanic has a brilliant future jhanic has a brilliant future jhanic has a brilliant future jhanic has a brilliant future jhanic has a brilliant future jhanic has a brilliant future jhanic has a brilliant future jhanic has a brilliant future jhanic has a brilliant future jhanic's Avatar

    Join Date
    May 2007
    Location
    Cleveland, Ohio
    Posts
    15,760
    My Mood
    Tired
    Country
    Country Flag

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Rabbit Trick View Post
    Who is JFK?
    He was President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He was assassinated on 11/22/63.

    John

  12. #37
    Owner Randall Flagg is loved more than Jesus Randall Flagg is loved more than Jesus Randall Flagg is loved more than Jesus Randall Flagg is loved more than Jesus Randall Flagg is loved more than Jesus Randall Flagg is loved more than Jesus Randall Flagg is loved more than Jesus Randall Flagg is loved more than Jesus Randall Flagg is loved more than Jesus Randall Flagg is loved more than Jesus Randall Flagg is loved more than Jesus Randall Flagg's Avatar

    Join Date
    May 2007
    Location
    North of "The Claw" & Patrick, East of Chad, RIP Bill Bender
    Posts
    40,428
    My Mood
    Pensive
    Country
    Country Flag
    Gender
    Gender

    Default New King Novel Titled: 11/22/63

    .

  13. #38
    S P I R A L Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky has a brilliant future Ricky's Avatar

    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Posts
    11,872
    Country
    Country Flag
    Gender
    Gender

    Default

    Just throwing this out there: what if the character that is trying to prevent the assassination--by intervening--is actually the cause of it? Hmm...
    A NEW GAME BEGINS

  14. #39
    Citizen of Gilead LostAlivE will become famous soon enough LostAlivE's Avatar

    Join Date
    Dec 2007
    Posts
    620
    Country
    Country Flag
    Gender
    Gender

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Bev Vincent View Post
    He's the ambassador to the United Nations in the alternate Fringe universe.
    LOL....... love that show. Can't wait for the book either.

  15. #40
    Fundraiser Emeritus Merlin1958 is loved more than Jesus Merlin1958 is loved more than Jesus Merlin1958 is loved more than Jesus Merlin1958 is loved more than Jesus Merlin1958 is loved more than Jesus Merlin1958 is loved more than Jesus Merlin1958 is loved more than Jesus Merlin1958 is loved more than Jesus Merlin1958 is loved more than Jesus Merlin1958 is loved more than Jesus Merlin1958 is loved more than Jesus Merlin1958's Avatar

    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Location
    On a "Time Out" with, Kang!!!
    Posts
    33,017
    My Mood
    Breezy
    Country
    Country Flag
    Gender
    Gender

    Default

    Ican see the future.....................The future has some serious thread merging in it!!!!!


    LOL
    28 in 23 (?)!!!!

    63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!









    The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????

  16. #41
    Demon of the Prim east-tennessee is just really nice east-tennessee is just really nice east-tennessee is just really nice east-tennessee is just really nice

    Join Date
    Mar 2010
    Location
    east tennessee
    Posts
    1,091
    Country
    Country Flag
    Gender
    Gender

    Default

    I was born that year-----2/27/63............I was 9 months & 5 days old at the time of the assassination.......
    I look forward to reading this, I'm sure it will be an epic novel with many interesting charcters as with Under the Dome.
    What will King do with the ending? can't wait to finnd out.
    Anyone with contacts or access to an ARC please pm me....

    Thanks Brian....

  17. #42
    Other worlds Patrick has a reputation beyond repute Patrick has a reputation beyond repute Patrick has a reputation beyond repute Patrick has a reputation beyond repute Patrick has a reputation beyond repute Patrick has a reputation beyond repute Patrick has a reputation beyond repute Patrick has a reputation beyond repute Patrick has a reputation beyond repute Patrick has a reputation beyond repute Patrick has a reputation beyond repute Patrick's Avatar

    Join Date
    Apr 2007
    Location
    Northern California
    Posts
    14,732
    My Mood
    Yeehaw
    Country
    Country Flag
    Gender
    Gender

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by jhanic View Post
    ...

    I remember that day very well. I was in college at the time, and had just walked my girl friend (now my wife) to her class. I was in a bookstore just across the street from the building where she was and they had a radio playing in the background. I finally realized just what they were saying on the radio, almost in a complete state of shock. As soon as she got out of class (she had to take a quiz--this was after she heard what was going on just before taking the quiz!) we walked to one of the dorms where they had a television playing. I've never heard a crowd of college students be that quiet!

    John
    Personally I wasn't born until about 16 months after the event. Thank you for sharing your experience of that day, John.
    "...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury

  18. #43
    Can Toi Jimimck has a reputation beyond repute Jimimck has a reputation beyond repute Jimimck has a reputation beyond repute Jimimck has a reputation beyond repute Jimimck has a reputation beyond repute Jimimck has a reputation beyond repute Jimimck has a reputation beyond repute Jimimck has a reputation beyond repute Jimimck has a reputation beyond repute Jimimck has a reputation beyond repute Jimimck has a reputation beyond repute Jimimck's Avatar

    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Location
    New Zealand (pronounced Noo Zeeland if you want to get the accent right...)
    Posts
    5,012
    My Mood
    Angelic
    Country
    Country Flag
    Gender
    Gender

    Default

    Even as a 34 year old who lives in a different country, I am very excited about this book. I probably know more about US political history than I do about my own country, and so am keen to read King's alternative vrsion. As always, for an epic, there will be great characters that intertwine in so many ways.

    Can't wait!!!

    Maybe this could be the book for Grant to do next... (just re-lighting the "We want a new grant publication" dream lol)

  19. #44
    Goldmember ICry4Oy has a reputation beyond repute ICry4Oy has a reputation beyond repute ICry4Oy has a reputation beyond repute ICry4Oy has a reputation beyond repute ICry4Oy has a reputation beyond repute ICry4Oy has a reputation beyond repute ICry4Oy has a reputation beyond repute ICry4Oy has a reputation beyond repute ICry4Oy has a reputation beyond repute ICry4Oy has a reputation beyond repute ICry4Oy has a reputation beyond repute ICry4Oy's Avatar

    Join Date
    Jan 2009
    Posts
    2,696
    Country
    Country Flag
    Gender
    Gender

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by pablo View Post
    Other than Wikipedia, what would you folks recommend to read up on the JFK assassination? I'll watch the Oliver Stone film (seen parts of it a while ago), but would like a nice factual narrative to get ready for the novel.
    First you'll have to have yourself hypnotized to remove all knowledge of the Oliver Stone film because, although entertaining, it is complete hooey.

    I also remember that day. I remember being in class (elementary school) and the principal came in and pulled the teacher out into the hall. She soon came back in the class and told everyone to gather up their stuff because school was letting out. No other explanation, just "go home". By the time we got out of the building the high school kids had already spread the word about what happened around the campus (it was a grades 1 thru 12 school).

    Keep in mind that this was a school in a small Mississippi town.

    Most of the kids were celebrating! I heard things like "YEAH! They got that n-word lover in Dallas!!!" Some of the kids were probably just happy because we were getting the day off but most of them were actually thrilled that JFK was shot.

    Later that evening my parents dragged us all over to a nearby person's house for a party. An actual party.

    I was only a kid but that day was burned in my mind and I always like to think of it as the day I became self-aware. I was too young to completely grasp the situation but I knew that a man was killed and that these backward-ass people were happy about it because in their minds he was a threat to their "whiteness". Looking back on it, it almost seems like I was plunked down into a horrifying episode of The Twilight Zone.


    But Pablo, if you really want to know more about JFK and those times, I'd recommend talking to some older folken.

  20. #45
    Goldmember Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future Mr. Rabbit Trick has a brilliant future

    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Location
    Scotland
    Posts
    6,896
    Country
    Country Flag
    Gender
    Gender

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by ICry4Oy View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by pablo View Post
    Other than Wikipedia, what would you folks recommend to read up on the JFK assassination? I'll watch the Oliver Stone film (seen parts of it a while ago), but would like a nice factual narrative to get ready for the novel.
    First you'll have to have yourself hypnotized to remove all knowledge of the Oliver Stone film because, although entertaining, it is complete hooey.
    Even more hooey, is the latest doctored film showing the limo driver shooting JFK with a pistol.

  21. #46
    Demon of the Prim mikeC has a spectacular aura about mikeC has a spectacular aura about mikeC has a spectacular aura about

    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Posts
    1,474

    Default

    Sounds like a book Ron Mclarty would narrate, hopefully it will not be sir Raul.

  22. #47
    Demon of the Prim mikeC has a spectacular aura about mikeC has a spectacular aura about mikeC has a spectacular aura about

    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Posts
    1,474

    Default

    There was a door marked Dallas 1963 in the DT series, right?

  23. #48
    Word Slinger Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent has a brilliant future Bev Vincent's Avatar

    Join Date
    May 2007
    Posts
    7,058

    Default

    Yes, in Book 7, Susannah sees doors labeled: Shanghai, Bombay and Dallas (November 1963)

    And then there's this passage: "Ted and his friends were pretty amazed by the rotunda where all the doors are, especially the one going to Dallas in 1963, where President Kennedy was killed. We found another door two levels down—this is where most of the passages are—that goes to Ford's Theater, where President Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. There's even a poster for the play he was watching when Booth shot him. Our American Cousin, it was called. What kind of people would want to go and watch things like that?"

  24. #49
    Citizen of Gilead thegreattim will become famous soon enough thegreattim will become famous soon enough thegreattim's Avatar

    Join Date
    Jun 2010
    Location
    NW Lud
    Posts
    849
    Country
    Country Flag

    Default

    And elsewhere (I'm not exactly sure where) King makes at least one reference to Kennedy as the last American Gunslinger...

    I have a feeling this book will be laced with DT connections.

  25. #50
    Oz the Gweat and Tewwible mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae seldom gets put on hold mae's Avatar

    Join Date
    Oct 2007
    Location
    New Jersey
    Posts
    35,532
    Country
    Country Flag
    Gender
    Gender

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by thegreattim View Post

    I have a feeling this book will be laced with DT connections.
    Portals. Nuff said.

+ Reply to Thread
Page 2 of 82 FirstFirst 1 2 3 4 12 52 ... LastLast

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts