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Top Five Books of 2013 (141) » 23 more Best Horror Books (75) Books Read in 2015 (431) Favourite Books (1,131) Summer Reads 2014 (165) Books Set in Maine (24) Books Read in 2010 (342) To Read - Horror (53) Jarett's Books (85) Strange Towns (49) Small Town Fiction (60) Indie Next Picks (171) New England Books (96) No current Talk conversations about this book. 1100 pages of break neck pacing. I swear, by the last 1/3 of this I was holding my breath most of the time when I was reading it. I feel like I've got an elephant sitting on my chest! (  ) beentsy | Aug 12, 2023 |  This book of Stephen King, which is after all nothing else than a homage to the Lord of the Flies from Golding, might be 1500 pages long but it doesn`t feels overwritten at all. The storyline, the characters,,,, King still can write, and it`s probably one of his best books. (  ) TheCrow2 | Aug 4, 2023 | I don't think I've ever read a work of fiction so full of gratuitous violence, murder, and mayhem. Now if your thinking this is the beginning of a negative review, guess again. With so much non stop action, fast paced narrative, and large cast of evil characters, this book was an awesome read ! ( ) kevinkevbo | Jul 14, 2023 | - Loved Characters - Ending was slightly lacking in aspects - Very entertaining althoughout! ( ) Daitho | Jul 7, 2023 | maybe 3.5 stars, not sure I really liked, but if not, what kept me reading for over 1,000 pages? and I did read for the last two hours straight to finish it. I had to find out what happened. I am not a science fiction reader and that might have been what kept me from loving it. once again Stephen King did it though because I really did not put the book down much! ( ) Asauer72 | Jul 3, 2023 |
 Though his scenarios aren’t always plausible in strictest terms, King’s imagination, as always, yields a most satisfying yarn.  It’s a fun and clear-headed fury, though. This is King humming at the height of his powers, cackling at human folly, taking childish glee in the gross-out and all the while spinning a modern fable that asks some serious questions without sounding preachy. If the fury left a few excessive typos and a dog’s name that mistakenly changes on occasion, well, these are (mostly) forgivable sins. After all, few of us can resist such nightmares and dreamscapes. King says he started "Under the Dome" in 1976 but then "crept away from it with my tail between my legs. . . . I was terrified of screwing it up." Fortunately, he found the confidence to return to this daunting story because the result is one of his most powerful novels ever. The King book that is most readily brought to mind by “Under the Dome” isn’t an earlier large-scale apocalyptic fantasy like “It” or “The Stand”; it’s “On Writing,” the instructive autobiographical gem that cast light on how Mr. King’s creative mind works. In the spirit of “On Writing,” “Under the Dome” takes a lucid, commonsense approach that keeps it tight and energetic from start to finish. Hard as this thing is to hoist, it’s even harder to put down. 1,100 pages of localized apocalypse from an author whose continued and slightly frenzied commerce with his muse has been one of the more enthralling spectacles in American literature. Belongs to Publisher SeriesAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
The small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is faced with a big dilemma when it is mysteriously sealed off by an invisible and completely impenetrable force field. With cars and airplanes exploding on contact, the force field has completely isolated the townspeople from the outside world. Now, Iraq war vet Dale Barbara and a group of the town's more sensible citizens must overcome the tyrannical rule of Big Jim Rennie, a politician bent on controlling everything within the Dome. No library descriptions found. 
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