Friday, November 17, 2023

The time machine ch 1 through 6

 Ch 1

The timetraveler is having a bit of a salon with other academics. He's explaining how there's four dimensions to be traveled. Height, width, depth and time.  He talks about how we can only easily travel width or depth wise easily.  Height requires machines to aide us.  It is the same with time.  He can travel through time with a machine.  He has a tiny time machine and in a demonstration he declares to be sending it in time.  What we see is that it has disappeared. We assume it must have traveled forward in time as if it had traveled back in time we would have seen it on the table in the past.

Ch 2 pg 25

Narrator goes to hangout with the time traveler again.  He shows up and there's another group of intellectual people. The tike traveller's not there.  Eventually he shows up and he's in bad shape.  He's not even wearing shoes.  He says he's been time traveling and he will tell the tale as long as nobody argues with what he says or interrupts the story.

Ch 3 pg 37

Time traveler tells the story.  Most of it is him going back and forth in time without do8ng anything other than explaining that the physical effects on him caused by the time machine suck.  Certainly not the sort of thing he would suggest after saying "who wants to have a good time?  

He goes a ways into the future and I think the machine flips over or something and he hurts his chin.  He finds himself next to a giant sphinx looking statue.  He hears talking and sees hooded figures heading his way.  He considers getting the hell out of there.  But as they get closer he sees they're bald.  So he ain't afraid of no bald heads.

Ch 4 pg 49

He thinks this is roughly the year 2800.  The people have tentacles.  He makes sure to disable the time machine and he and the little pretty tentacled people go somewhere else. They just eat fruit.  After a fruit meal the time traveler walks up a hill to see the city.  The river has shifted quite a bit.  The buildings are completely different. Where there used to be tons of single family homes there are now just giant buildings. Most of them are ruins.  Definitely society had built up and was now in decline.

He has all sorts of theories as to how society got to this point.  In the last sentence of the chapter he explains that all of his theories were wrong.

Ch 5 pg 72

He comes down from the hill to find his time machine is gone.  He yells at some little tentacled people, but they don't understand so they're just scared and it only gets him a feeling of shame.  He ends up kinda passing out in the lawn where he time machine used to be.  He wakes up full of despair. 

He finds that theres people living underground. He figures they took his time machine.

he also figures the underground people and the above ground people used to be people and split off evolutionary at some point.  And the above ground people are oppressing the below ground people.

Ch 6 pg 108

The time traveler decides to climb down into the underground to get his time machine back.  He is whoafully unprepared. He pretty much just gets scared and runs away.


Friday, November 3, 2023

11 22 63 ch 29 to ALLOF THEM

 Ch 29

Kennedy was saved.  Sophie is dead.  Jake is a hero.  But Jake doesn't wanna be a hero.  The FBI helps him slip away and he takes a series if busses back to (so far) Pittsburgh.  Assuming he'll get back to New England 🇬🇧 and go back....


...to the future.


Ch 30 pg 787

On the way he talks to the green card guy.  Hes some sort of time cop or whatever amd hes stationed here at what he calls the time bubble.  I dont see the point as basically what they do is stand there and go crazy.  This guy also asks nicely for Jake to undo everything.

Ch 31 pg 809

Jake goes into the apocalypse future and ends up talking to the janitor.  He doesnt have the brain damage that his dad gave him in the original timeline so he is able to explain all the horrible things that have happened since Jake saved Kennedy.  Jake is gonna go back and fix it.

He goes back and the card man time cop asks him nicely to go back and reset the timeline.  He doesnt do anything and jake runs away.  This whole green card man thing is a HUGE disappointment.

Final notes pg 825

Jake is out and free in the past.  He doesn't do anything.But he does write up his whole story, put it in a lock box and bury it.

Citizen of the century pg 833

He finds out Sadie is still alive and goes to visit her.  He tells her he knew her in another life.

Afterword pg 843

Steven talks about the research he did for this and a bit of what inspired him to write this book.

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

11 22 63 ch 23 - 28

 Ch 23 pg 577

Sadie's face is messed up real bad from her ex husband stabbing her.  George pretty much gives up on following lee and moves back to take care of Sadie.  He was gonna bet on the Kentucky Derby but he sees a car with a Florida license plate and is worried it's the guy that tried to kill him and walks away, no bet made.

Ch 24 pg 605

Jake tells Sadie he's from the future and here to save Kennedy.  He places a bet at a own shop.

25 pg 633

Jake gets his come uppance after the fight he bet on when some goons  related to the forst guy in dallas he won money from come to beat him up.

26 pg 671

Jake sustained some brain injury and now he can't remember who us going to kill Kennedy or where.  He does remember how because he remembers that Oswald hid his gun somewhere bear the first hotel he stayed in in Dallas.  He remembers that he has Al's notes and they're in a safety deposit box.

Ch 27 pg 689

Jake gets his stuff out of the safe deposit box.  He's gonna try to go it alone.  His plan just sorta seems to be to be there at the book depository and shoot Oswald right before he shoots Kennedy. He rents the Oswalds' old place and his plan to go it alone falls apart because Sadie shows up.  She found me, I don't know how but she found me.  RUN FOR IT MARTY!!!!

Ch 28 pg 715

HE DID IT!!!!! Jake saved JFK.  Oooohhhh weeeee it was Hella dramatic, but he got the job done.  The car blew a tire, the bus he took got run over by a garbage truck.  Sadie tried to get someone to give them a ride and the guy attacked her and she slashed him with the knife her ex slashed her with.  They end up making it to Lee right before he takes the shot.  Jake ends up shooting the window and that was enough for Lee to miss Kennedy.  Lee ends up shooting Sadie.  You wanna make an omlette, eggs will be broken.

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

11 22 63 part 4 ch 14 - 22

 Ch 14 pg 353

Jake (george) goes to a pawn shop and buys some bugs.  The kind you can put in a lamp with a connected recorder.  The best the early 60s had.  He then goes to the house he knows lee harvey Oswald is gonna rent in August next year and pays the lady living there to  call him when they're moving.  Hes gonna put the lamp bugs in the house before lee moves in.

Jake agrees to shaparone a dance with the new librarin.  They get a luttle hot and heavy after.  Then she runs out.  She calls him after and tells him to come over tomorrow at 5 with condoms.

Ch 15 pg 377

They do it.

Jake gets the bug lamps from the pawn shop and theyre great.

new librarian says she loves Jake and he says it back.

she's having a hard time trusting him with all these trios to dallas he can't talk about.

Ch 16 pg 400

Jake has got lee.harvwy oswalds future house all bugged up.  He's also got his sights set on renting the house across street.

I don't care about his relationship to the librarians or the school play 0r how the librarians gonna get a job in reno during the summer so after two months she can get a divorce without interacting with her astranged husband.  Or how she's sick of narrator's shit and is primed to dump him.  So I'm not gonna talk about that. 

Ch 17 pg 431

Jake goes to the airport to see lee harvey Oswald come home.  He does.  Fun thing, he also sees librarian leaving for reno.  He goes back to little town for dinner.   You know the librarian plot line I don't care about?  Well, they won't shut up about it, so the one thing I'll report about it here is that at the dinner, someone brings librarians high-school yearbook specifically so they can get a picture of her astranged husband and Jake is worried he's gonna come to town and cause trouble. 

Cool thing that also happens back in small town is there's a reporter covering the football team and he has a fancy new listening device. He goes back to the pawn shop and the guy there just heard about this.  So Jake is probably going to get one.

Ch 18 pg 459

Jake listens to Lee and family with the fancy new listening device. This works pretty well as he can listen to people when they come to the door.  Like when a boy comes selling magazines and lee gives him the communist manifesto. 

What doesn't work as well is the bug in the house that's hooked up to a tape recorder.  Mostly cause when they're home, the Oswalds speak Russian. 

Ch 19 pg 490

Jake moves into the apartment one floor below where the oswalds are going to move. The Cuban missle crisis is starting.  Jake is worried about Sadie and calls her.  She doesn't answer so he drives to her house and finds her passed out.  He tells her how the Cuban misses crisis goes and she's cool with it. 

Ch 20 pg 523

I had forgotten that there was some military guy that al thought Lee harvey Oswald tried to assassinate before Kennedy.  In this chapter we learn that Oswald did have an axe to grind against this guy as he tried to organize a protest against said military guys tv appearance. Jake didn't care enough to see if anyone showed up.  But he did watch the TV thing and while he didn't think he deserved to die, he could do with some shaking.

At the end it is revealed that lee harvey Oswald's wife is pregnant again.

Ch 21 pg 539

Jake tells librarian his name is Jake.  Jake loses the bug in Lee Harney oswalds apartment.  He's kinda flying blind heading toward Lee possibly trying to assassinate the military guy.  But he knows when and where so at least he can be there to see it.  He thinks it might go so badly that he has to go back to the future.

Ch 22 pg 559

Jake is preparing to go witness lee harvey Oswald try to kill the white supremacist former military guy and the fate stops him.  Sadie's ex husband shows up at Sadie's house and makes her call Jake and Jake drives three hours to save her.  He calls Deke (the former principal) to help and he saves Sadie with a casserole dish of chop seui. Jake doesn't wanna shoot Sadie's ex cause it'll bring too much scrutiny.  So he doesn't and the punchline is that he kills himself with a knife.  Here's hoping suicide brings less scrutiny. 

Sunday, October 8, 2023

The blinding knife ch 1 through 39

 Ch 1 pg 1 Gavin

He's kinda drifting on a boat.  Sad about losing the color blue.  A sea demon swims under his boat.  For a second he's filled with a sense of awe and wonder.  Then he realizes said sea demon is headed toward the fleet that's fleeing from garrison. 

Ch 2 pg 3 Dazen 

He's going crazy in the green prison.  Blue makes you fully logical like a vulcan.  Green mkes you wild like a Klingon.  So the adjustment is hard.  But hes logicing his way into hope of escape.

Ch 3 pg 4 gavin

Gavin uses color magic to lead away the sea demon.  Looking forward to shia lebeuf peeforming this scene in the series im hoping gets made in 2035.

Ch 4 pg 10 Karris

Karris knows Gavin is Dazen. She does calisthenics on the deck, ironfist joins her.  When theyre done, she tells hum the prism is going to leave again.  She wants him to make sure she goes with the prism.  Speak of the devil.  Gavin shows up and says shes pretty.  This part of the book (as are all the women's viewpoints) being written bt a 12 year old boy, she says something mean and walks away.

Ch 5 pg 14 gavin

Gavin tells the general that hes lost blue.  He has a plan.

Ch 6 pg 18 iron fist

Gavin tells iron fist to make kip a black guard and iron fist makes him take Karris wherever it is that he's going.

Ch 7 pg 22 kip

Gavin tells kip he has to destroy Luxlord Klytos Blue.  I'd necessary,  by killing him.

Ch 8 pg 27 karris

Karris is going with Gavin to seer Island. That's where he wants to put all the Tyrean refugees. 

Ch 9 pg 31 kip

Kip talks to iron fist about how it's hard to make good chouces in the heat of battle.  Good choices come from trauning and experience.  Kip has neither of those things, so it's nit a huge surprise that he.wouldn't see killing the king as a strategic mistake.

Ch 10 pg 34 gunner

This is one of the guys on the pirate ship that Gavin sank.  He's floating in the ocean and being circled by sharks.

He kills a sharp and makes it to a row boat.  He's gonna get vengeance against Gavin.

Ch 11 pg 38 kip

Kip is at rhe chromeria training with the black guard.  Kip has the blinding knife.  He is trying to hide it and it's going very badly.   He ends up hiding it in some other person's trunk 

 Ch 12 pg 43 kip again

Kip is in class and it goes badly.  He's sent to the hallway.  His grandfather's slave comes to fetch him.

Ch 13 pg 48 gavin

Gavin makes it to seers Island and they're all, you have to wall four hours to talk to the hbic.  He's all, nah, I got work to do.  They can come to me. 

Ch 14 pg 52 kip

Kip meets his grandfather.

Ch 15 pg 53 LIV!!!!!

Liv hangs out with the color prince.  He's more luxin than man now. He's working on revitalizing Tyrea. Also, he's not planning any specific military action.  He's gonna send his people out into the world to subtly inspire revolution. He is also putting out word that all magic users are welcome at his Cromeria. None of the pay to play bulkshit that encourages the corruption. He loses his shit a but when Liv calls one of his plans diabolical. I'm leaning in the direction that he is insane but does a relatively good job of hiding it.

Ch 16 pg 60

Kip has to fight other people training to become black guards. He does ok.


Ch 17 pg 68 (so close)

Kip likes the girl that's been assigned to be his partner.  He breaks a bully's arm.

Ch 18 pg 84

Gavin and karris are doing stuff to prepare for the incoming Tyrean refugees.   At night she cries cause it's one of her dead brothers birthday. 

Ch 19 pg 79

Kip goes to breakfast and eats with the outcasts.  Appearantly his partner was told to try out for the black guard yesterday. 

Ch 20 pg 83

Kip and his partner are on mirror adjustment duty.  Then they go to  class.

Ch 21 pg 88

Gavin wakes up after holding karris cause she couldnt stop crying.  He has internal monologue about his goals.  One of which is to tell karris everything.

Ch 22 pg 90

Kip goes to engineers class and there's maths and kip doesnt know maths.  They do a thing where they weigh 1 square foot boxes of luxin to show how much each weighs.  Then they are given a math problem the idea is you're supposed to do the math and then diagram how you would replace a weight with blue luxin.  Instead of doing that he makes a diagram where he has reassembled the broken parts of the weight with blue luxin.  He gets an A on tue assignment cause it would work, but now another teacher hates him.

Ch 23 pg 96

Ironfist talks to the white about how he r husband was an awesome poker player.  He never payed against gavins father cause he had soo much money the stakes of any bet was basically meaning less.  But then she says gavins dad wante to be the white.  The intimation is that the whites husband worked the system (That is supposed to be random) to make her the white.

Ch 24 pg 100

In this chapter they explain color magic more in a classroom setting. The teacher makes it clear she hates Kip and is real religious about color magic.  Anybody that tries to do anything different,  is sinning before God.

Ch 25 pg 104

Kip talks to his partner as they walk away from class.  Turns out she's colorblind.  Not sure how she's able to do color magic that way.  I'm sure they'll explain. The next thing is she tells him not to trust all the people offering to sponsor him.  He's Hella confused. He's the prisms son.  Why would he need a sponsor?  Because his grandfather disavowed him.  He's all alone here at the chromeria. 


Personal note, if i were him, id go back to tyrea and join the rebel army.

Ch 26 pg 106

The head of seerer Island and she tells him he's dying and he shouldn't be dieing yet.

Ch 27 pg 107

The physical training to be a black guard is hard.  Today Kip was the last in everything and he threw up.  Iron fist tells him he can quit if he wants. His grandfather has ordered iron fist to throw him out.  Ironfist is ignoring that direct order.  Kip is gonna stay.  It's gonna be torture, but he's gonna stay.

Also he's punished for swearing and has to run 5 laps and his partner has to run with him.  

Ch 28 pg 110

Kips partner gets a lecture about the difference between boys and girls.

Ch 29 pg 116

Kip's grandfather might just be the worst person in the kingdom.  He's decided to torture kip by beating him at cards and then kicks one of his "friends" out of the chromeria. 

Ch 30 pg 120

Gavin isn't making any friends on seer Island. He's forcing them to take in 50,000 refugees and this will completely destroy their way of life.  But they've gotta go somewhere. 

Ch 31 pg 122

Kip goes to the library and reads some books about cards.  It kinda helps in the he can see why he's losing now.  This time the punishment for losing is that he can't eat tomorrow and he can't go to the practicum, which is kinda a study hall for drafting.  So the kip torture is going well.

Ch 32 pg 126 Teia

Kip's partner has a chapter.  She's a slave so her life is worse and her master makes her do worse things than normal chromeria students.  In this particular case she has to steal something from a man.  She has a special secret color called paryl.   She uses it to see where metal objects people are holding are so she can steal them.  She steals a snuff box from a man.  But paryl is also good for murder I guess as she sees a man murder a woman with it.

Ch 33 pg 134 kip

The blue talks and kip tries to listen.  This man is his target after all.  After the talk, which was too quiet to hear most of, kip and his classmates tall about light bringer.

Ch 34 pg 139 Liv

Liv has a tutor.  Today he just takes her to a dress maker.  At the dress maker, Liv takes a bath and has an existential crisis. I think this guy is the guy that stabbed Gavin with the blinding knife 🔪 

Ch 35 pg 145 kip

He is spending every hour he possibly can to learn about the Blue and how he might take him down.  I wonder if he's still trying to beat his grandfather at cards.

Its black guard fight day.  Kip picks a fight with a boy that was likely getting kucked out of the black guard.  But not a real sanctioned fight.  A sudden headbutt to the nose kinda fight.  They both go to the medic.  So he doesnt have to fight today. 

Ch 36 pg 153 Teia

Teia wins her fight.  Ironfist shows up and tells them that things are about to get real hard.  The Black guard needs new recruits fast.  So training will be accelerated and some at the end of this year the top 14 join the Black guard.  Twice as many as usual. 

Ch 37 pg 156 gavin

The seer tells Gavin that the real Gavin has escaped the blue prison and intimates that it's not a coincidence that the escape happened and he lost the ability to lose blue.  I'm sure Greg will know what caused what.  Also if he has lost blue that means he's not really prism and that means there is no prism and that's Bad.   And as theyre talking about how bad, it starts to snow.  But it's not normal snow.  It's blue luxin.  

Ch 38 pg 166 liv

The rebels don't just have political differences with the chromeria and the rest of society that lets them call the shots.  They also have religious differences.  They dont believe in the one god Orlam.  They believe in the many gods.  Each color has its own god.  When you draft a color and you feel different, that is that color's god working its magic in you.  

liv's tutor is telling her all this and teaching her his idea of freedom and why its better than being in the chromeria and their (compared to.the society the rebels are trying build) conservative values.

ch 39 pg 168 ( nice) kip

Kip and his partner are getting extra secret training.


Saturday, September 30, 2023

11 22 63 ch 9 through 13

 Ch 9 pg 223

Jake comes back to the present and he and Al talk about it.  The picture of Harry on the wall is gone.  Replaced by some guy Al says he doesn't know.  Jake needs sleep, so he gives Al a ride home and says he'll be back to get him and do the time travel at 7 pm.  

Jake's cat wakes him up at 4:45 and he does some googling.  He shells out some cash to get access to the online newspaper archives.  There's an article in the derry paper a out the murder.  He keeps googling and finds one of Harry's sisters. Turns out he died in Vietnam. Fun bit, one of her other brothers was a tech wiz.  Guessing it's cause he found Jake's cell phone.

Jake goes to pick up Al.  He's dead.  So Jake is on his own to try to save JFK.

Ch 10 pg 245

Jake does soooooo good the second time around.  He kills Harry's dad when he's visiting his parents graves and doesn't leave a trace.

He makes $3,000 betting on the world series. 

Ch 11 269 (nice)

Jake feels conflicted on killing Harry's dad.  So he decides he's also gonna do Al's thing to make himself feel better.  With a bit of luck, or maybe divine intervention,  he sees that the hunter that accidentally shot the girl plays cribbage. So instead of blocking the road and faking a heart attack to stop things from happening,  he pays the guy to teach him cribbage all day.

Thing i learned today, Methodists don't gamble.

Ch 12 pg 279

Jake goes to Florida, makes some money gambling and gets the hell out cause he's got a bad feeling.  He makes his way to New Orleans and when he makes a call back to Florida finds out his apartment had been burned down.  He feels real good about following that feeling.  He makes his way to Dallas and starts to monitor Lee Harvey Oswald's family. He won't be there for a couple more years.  He doesn't like Dallas and decides to move to a small town a ways out, but close enough he can easily get to dallas and spy on Oswald's family. 

We're left with a bit of a cliffhanger as he wins a bet in Dallas and Something bad is going to happen on the ride home. 

Ch 13 pg 317

Jake enjoys his small town life and little trips to Dallas.  He's a substitute teacher and he writes his murder novel and he directs the school play.  People like him.  Not sure why.  I don't.  

Big decision,  they want him to teach full time next year.  School is out in June.  Oswald doesn't make it back to America til June 13th.  So he takes the job.

Also, the librarian, who has been important in all this, has what we are lead to believe is a fatal disease and so a new librarian is coming in and she's a buxom beauty so Jake is gonna fall in love with her probably. 

The librarian dies, Jake and the new librarian plan her memorial together.  They don't fall in love.

They go to the first football game together and there is a bit of a flirty energy.  Seems like Stephen is creating a real will they won't they kinda thing.  During the halftime show Jake has a bit of a flashback to the yellow card man.

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

11 22 63 ch 1 - 8

 Preamble pg 1

Narrator teaches a GED class.  He is divorced and his ex thinks he's not in touch with his emotions. His life changed when he read a story written by a janitor about the time his dad killed most of his family.  Narrator cried when he read that story and he gave the janitor an a plus.

Ch 1 pg 9

To celebrate the janitor getting his GED narrator takes him to a diner called Al's.  Narrator is one of the few regular customers at Al's.  The guy that runs the place is named Al.  There's a time machine or something in his pantry and narrator is going through it. 

Ch 2 pg 29

Narrator goes back in time.  He has some real good rootbeer and gets to wander around town a bit.  

He comes back and Al explains things a bit.  First, when you go back you always go back to the same day and time.  Also, you're always gone for two minutes.  The reason his burgers are so cheap is he buys the meat in the past.  

I wonder where he got the old money to start with.

He has a big plan that he needs narrator's help with.  But the cancer is wearing him.out too much to explain.  He says he's gonna go home,  pop an oxygen and rest and Narrator should come over at 9:30 to talk it over. 

Narrator doesnt really love this idea.  He doesnt wanna waste years of his life in the past

Ch 3 pg 53

Al wants Narrator wants to go back in time and save JFK.  He thought he could do it himself, but then before he got the chance, he was diagnosed with cancer.  At one point he saw Lee Harvey Oswald on the street and could have killed him, but didn't.  His plan now is to try to catch Lee at what is thought to be a previous assassination attempt.   But he can't make it there again. He might only have months to live.  But narrator could try and he'd be back in two minutes. And if Al's impending death wasn't enough of a ticking clock, LL Bean has bought the land the restaurant is on and is kicking Al out so they can build a store there.

Al knows he can change the past cause he went back and stopped a girl from getting shot in a hunting accident and ended up in A wheelchairas a result.  Two things, 1 it was super hard.  Something was trying to stop him from changing the past.  2 narrator's last trip undid said saving.  Every trip back rewrites history.

Ch 4 pg 79

Narrator has a great idea.  He's gonna go back and save the janitor. He tells Al if thus works, then he'll try to save JFK.  Narrator is thinking this is a necessary task before trying to save JFK.  If Al had so much trouble stopping the girl from getting in that wheelchair,  how much harder will it be to stop 3 people from getting murdered?

Al is good with this.  They go down to the diner and Al says he'll start a pot of coffee.  It will be ready by the time narrator comes back.

Ch 5

Narrator has a fun first day in the past.  He's really saz2 all the things that were slightly different than his first visit.  he gets a haircut,  buys a suitcase,  opens a checking account,  gets a cab to the motor inn and throws all the future stuff he accidentally brought with him into a nearby pond.

Ch 6 pg 119

Narrator buys a red convertible and drives to Harry's home town of Darry.  When he gets there he hates it.  Everyone seems to be real standoffs.  Turns out that's on account of the child murders.  The bartender at the bar near Narrator's hotel gives him all the info.  So Narrator is going to do his best to avoid kids and not catch a beating for his trouble.   He has been asking around about Harry's dad.  He says he's and old army buddy name of Dunning.  Harry is informed the town is full of dunning.  Look in a phone book.

Narrator is a bit defeated by this.  How cane find Harry if can't talk to kids and his dead could be one of a long list of dunnings.  

Fate steps in.  Early in his dating career with his ex wife they went swing dancing.  Did competitions.  They mostly danced to in the mood by glen miller.  He hears this song and finds a couple of his tweens dancing to it.  They chat with narrator. They know one of Harry's siblings and give narrator the lowdown. 

Ch 7 pg 149

Narrator is casing Harry's dad to try and come up with a plan to stop him on Halloween night.  This ends with him following him to a grave yard and putting flowers on two graves.

Ch 8 ph 177

Narrator does it.  He saves the janitor. Excited to see what the janitor's life is like now.