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"Propulsively intriguing... Staggeringly addictive." -- USA Today
"Tight and energetic from start to finish... Hard as this thing is to hoist, it's even harder to put down." -- New York Times
"The work of a master storyteller having a whole lot of fun." -- Los Angeles Times
"King returns to his glory days of The Stand." -- New York Daily News
"A wildly entertaining trip." -- People (3.5 stars)
"Under the Dome moves so fast and grips the reader so tightly that it's practically incapacitating." -- Newsday
"Stephen King's Under the Dome was one of my favourite books of the year so far." -- Neil Gaiman
"Dome is classic King, sure to please any fan." -- Baltimore Sun
"Spellbinding." -- ABCnews.com
"Tight and energetic from start to finish... Hard as this thing is to hoist, it's even harder to put down." -- New York Times
"The work of a master storyteller having a whole lot of fun." -- Los Angeles Times
"King returns to his glory days of The Stand." -- New York Daily News
"A wildly entertaining trip." -- People (3.5 stars)
"Under the Dome moves so fast and grips the reader so tightly that it's practically incapacitating." -- Newsday
"Stephen King's Under the Dome was one of my favourite books of the year so far." -- Neil Gaiman
"Dome is classic King, sure to please any fan." -- Baltimore Sun
"Spellbinding." -- ABCnews.com
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STEPHEN KING “RETURNS TO HIS GLORY DAYS OF THE STAND” (New York Daily News) WITH HIS NEW #1 BESTSELLING EPIC
Just down Route 119 in Chester’s Mill, Maine, all hell is about to break loose. . . .
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day, a small town is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and rain down flaming wreckage. A gardener’s hand is severed as the dome descends. Cars explode on impact. Families are separated and panic mounts. No one can fathom what the barrier is, where it came from, and when—or if—it will go away. Now a few intrepid citizens, led by an Iraq vet turned short-order cook, face down a ruthless politician dead set on seizing the reins of power under the dome. But their main adversary is the dome itself. Because time isn’t just running short. It’s running out.
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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
King burns rubber for 1072 pages,
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This review is from: Under the Dome: A Novel (Hardcover)
I read my first Stephen King book when I was 13 years old and have been hooked every since. As is expected with an author that has something like 50+ published novels of pretty substantial size, I have been disappointed a number of times. Under the Dome, however, is not one of those times. After getting my hands on an advanced reading copy through my work (a bookstore) I started this behemoth and was hooked from page 3. King starts this story with a bang and burns rubber throughout the entire novel, never letting up the hyper-speed pace. With a book this size, I was expecting a few parts to sag, to be boring, but nothing like that ever happened while reading this book: I was completely addicted.The story is simple: a big ol' dome comes down and cuts off this one small town, Chester's Mill, from the rest of the world. No one can get in or out. What the novel focuses on is how that changes the society inside the dome, how people react to their new enclosed space. And, since this is a King book, you can expect that they don't act well. This town has a lot of bad apples and skeletons in the closet, and they all come out to play when the dome comes down. There are a few times in this story where I had to suspend my disbelief a little bit farther than I was willing. Mainly, in that things turned south so fast. Perhaps it was just the fact that the book was hundreds of pages, but I couldn't help being jarred whenever I learned that only a day or two had passed in the world of the book, when it felt like it was more time to me. Perhaps this was a conscious decision to keep the pacing fast. Some of the characters can come across as cartoonish, especially the main villain. Most of the characters are well-written and interesting, with faults that make them more believable. But this book is a good one. Not as good as the book it's inevitably going to be compared to (The Stand), but good. King dives into some complex questions about authority, fear, and propaganda, drawing some comparisons between the tactics of George Bush and Dick Cheney and our Dome-villian government figures. There is also a pretty heavy dose of environmental catastrophe interlaced throughout that parallels well with our current global warming issue. My advice would be not to start this book unless you're ready to turn off the phone, lock the door, and finish the whole thing in one go.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great begining, OK middle, lousy ending,
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This review is from: Under the Dome: A Novel (Hardcover)
I have never read a Stephen King book before, but I have seen many movies based off his books. As expected his books are not much different than the movies. Stephen King seems to have the curse of writing great beginnings and then not knowing how to end them. Besides the lame ending, one thing that really bother me about this book was the gross technical inaccuracy. Many people do things like confuse GSM with Wifi, so I can't hold that against him. I can also forgive him for not thinking about using induction to transmit power to the people in the dome, and to create breathable air at the end, since Stephen King is not a scientist. However, Stephen King seems to lack even a grade school understanding of combustion engines. All combustion engines require three things: fuel, spark, and air. How in the world people could be driving cars when there is not enough oxygen to breath, is beyond me. I could ignore this flaw, and simply pretend like all the vehicles are battery powered. However, the generators would have the same requirement. The story makes too big a deal out of the propane for me to suspend my disbelief, or do something like pretend the generators are backup batteries or such...My recommendation is read the book until the climax, and then make-up your own ending.
5.0 out of 5 stars
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Well, as with any other Stephen King book, it's just amazing. I love everythign about it, the way he's in people heads and all that. you just have to read it! and i recommend it!
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