Item: Under the Dome
Rating: 3.00
Author: boghunden

by Stephen King

Don't miss the "harrowing" (The Washington Post) #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from Stephen King that inspired the hit television series, following the apocalyptic scenario of a town cut off from the rest of the world.

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as the dome comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away.

Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out.

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.

Under the Dome

by Stephen King

Reviewed by boghunden on Oct 31, 2014

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