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Originally Posted by ApK
Not having lived through it, I wouldn't know, but I'll point out that when Jake was writing, he HAD been living through it. :-)
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LOL, well, I hadn't lived through it either.
What I meant is that Jake wrote as if he'd been there the first time, and was now returning home to that time, as opposed to a guy in his thirties who'd only read about it, and was spotty on the history. King's sense of his own childhood, and nostalgia for it, seemed to inform Jake's experience.
King had written about that time on several occasions, as someone who was a legitimate child of that time. Jake is a different generation. I loved, and was on board with, Jake feeling at home there -- I think a lot of people would be happy transported to a different era -- but the 1950s and 1960s are "where" he moved, they're not his "home town."
And I still loved the book to an insane degree.