Under the Dome

by Stephen King

It's a bright Autumn morning in the small town of Chester's Mill. Claudette Sanders is having a flying lesson and Dale Barbara is hitching a ride out of town. Neither make it to their intended destinations ...Inexplicably, an invisible barrier has descended over the town. A bird is chopped right in half; a gardener's hands are severed at the wrists; the plane explodes with sheets of flame spreading to the ground and Dale Barbara, Iraq war vet turned short-order cook, is forced to turn back into the town he so desperately needed to leave.As the residents speculate about what has cut them off from the rest of the world, the Army searches for an inside man. 'Barbie' is put in charge. But Big Jim Rennie, the man who holds the town in his powerful grip, has other plans. And the dome could just be the answer to his political prayers.As food, electricity and water run short and children start to have premonitions of a terrifying Halloween, 'Barbie' is forced to take on Big Jim and his renegade supporters. Now time is running out for those living under the dome. Can they find what has created it before it's too late?Stephen King's mesmerising new masterpiece - his biggest, most riveting novel since THE STAND - features spectacularly sinister characters and a terrifying phenomenon.
UNDER THE DOME is a high-octane thriller, an apocalyptic vision and a fascinating allegory on a tyrannical state of political darkness.

• ISBN10: 1439149038
• ISBN13: 9781439149034
• Publish Date: 6 July 2010 (first published 31 December 1925)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Simon & Schuster
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 1088
• Language: English

Reviews

[boghunden]

This book was long. Too long.

So.much.namedropping! If all the names didn't have first and last name, and if all shops weren't names, this book would have been 200 pages shorter. Okay, that may be a bit over the top, but really. It was so frustrating reading aaaal those names over and over again, when all you really wanted was for the story to move forward.
Furthermore, there was too much of irrelevant information, which could've been left out as well.
Overall, I'd say this book was about 3-400 pages too long.

It took a while for me to be invested in the story, as I was really bored for the first 200 pages or so. Then things finally started happening. There was a lot of things going on! It took a lot of concentration to keep track of it all, but it was worth it. I gotta say Mr. King can write some really gross scenes. I was disgusted at some scenes, but that's part of what makes a good book, I think.

Some of the characters I really grew to like. They were simply amazing! Others freaked me out Junior!. I really felt like I knew some of these people, but unfortunately, I found that it was hard to keep track of so many characters, and I found the rest of them to be unnecessary for the story.

That being said, I really enjoyed this book, but I wasn't too fond of the writing, and I don't feel like all my questions were answered. A decent book if you have the time for it.