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Under the Dome

By Stephen King

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| Hardcover | 9781439148501

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On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mills, 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, pContinue

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mills, 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.

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  • UNDER THE DOME

    On one beautiful, clear, fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the unthinkable is about to happen. An airplane carrying a flight instructor and his student suddenly crashes, killing both; a man doing some gardening suddenly has his extended arm cut off; ... (read full critics)

    reviewingtheevidence published on Sun, 7 Nov 2010

  • UNDER THE DOME by Stephen King

    Review by Lynn Harnett (JUL 8, 2010) What happens when you take an ordinary small town in rural Maine and put a lid on it? An invisible, tougher than Superman, nearly impermeable dome of a lid that extends into the sky nearly 50,000 feet? At more tha ... (read full critics)

    mostlyfiction published on Thu, 30 Sep 2010

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  • 1 person find this helpful

    I was disappointed by this book, hailed by many as a return to form from King. Unfortunately I have to disagree, and go so far as saying that at times I questioned whether parts of the book had been written by him at all! Everything happens too quickly, without delving deeply into,at least,some of t ... (continue)

    I was disappointed by this book, hailed by many as a return to form from King. Unfortunately I have to disagree, and go so far as saying that at times I questioned whether parts of the book had been written by him at all! Everything happens too quickly, without delving deeply into,at least,some of the many characters that populate this book. And thats what I missed the most because it's what I expect, and usually always find, in King's stories.

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    Dylaniata said on Sep 24, 2010 | Add your feedback

  • 1 person find this helpful

    I was spoiled by reading Kings, The Stand. Under the Dome is reminiscent of The Stand but a bit far fetched for me. However nobody can write of disaster and human nature the way Stephen King does. The whole "good vs evil" always draws me in and is so exciting to read about, with a cast of 2000 chara ... (continue)

    I was spoiled by reading Kings, The Stand. Under the Dome is reminiscent of The Stand but a bit far fetched for me. However nobody can write of disaster and human nature the way Stephen King does. The whole "good vs evil" always draws me in and is so exciting to read about, with a cast of 2000 characters you really feel like a part of this community. Definitely a must read by King!

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    Leahrussell76 said on Mar 3, 2010 | Add your feedback

  • Ambizioso

    L'idea è geniale, lo sviluppo notevole. Purtroppo dovendo tenere in gioco una valanga di personaggi, finiscono tutti per essere troppo stereotipati per essere credibili.
    Detto ciò, è difficile non farsi invischiare dalla trama.

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    Bedo said on Jun 2, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Ugggh

    There were so many bad sentences in this book. And it is of such unnecessary length.Think twice before you start.

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    Corstin said on Sep 27, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Under His Spell

    Yes, it's a humongous book (1074 pages). Yes, it's got (many) dozens of characters making it difficult sometimes to keep tabs on them (King's choice to have half a dozen of female characters with a name beginning with a J didn't help at all). Yes, the whole plot is based on something that doesn't "s ... (continue)

    Yes, it's a humongous book (1074 pages). Yes, it's got (many) dozens of characters making it difficult sometimes to keep tabs on them (King's choice to have half a dozen of female characters with a name beginning with a J didn't help at all). Yes, the whole plot is based on something that doesn't "seem" very real. Yes, blood and graphic violence is sometimes almost too repulsive (and maybe too attractive for the same reasons).

    BUT.

    Stephen King here is in his best. As in many of his previous works, he uses the supernatural as a trigger for a fast-paced "social experiment" with disastrous ending. As one of the characters points towards the end of the book, almost all of the bad things that happen to Chester Mill and its people since the Dome comes down are due to them -or at least to the worse part of them. Like in Needful Things, King masterfully depicts American small-town society pointing to most of this country's modern flaws -but this time he does it on the fly, not before things start to go wrong. And he does that in a way that is far from moral preaching, trying to find reasons for the acts of every person, even for the "bad guys", without turning them to silver screen "black vs. white" characters without any human depth.

    If you are one of Stephen King's "Constant Readers" (as he call us himself) and haven't read this spellbinding book yet, go get it without hesitation! If you are not, but are willing to read a thousand pages of an insightful "What if...", give it a try!

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    Gazakas said on Aug 17, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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