Few writers can gut punch readers with an ending the way Stephen King can. Written in the first person, 11/22/63 is ominous from the start. But why it is so ominous takes over 850 pages to understand. For all his flaws with endings, the final lines are usually cutting. Take another story told in first person, The Green Mile. It’s only at the end, the very end, that the true cost of the story is revealed with that haunting final line “We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.” If you read the book you know exactly what I’m talking about. And maybe even got a chill same as I did when I read it years ago. [Continue on here!]
