Under the Dome

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / Science Fiction / General / King, Stephen
On Shelf At: Traverwood Branch

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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.

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Unusually good for a Stephen King novel. submitted by eknapp on November 9, 2011, 3:58pm Checks in at over 1000 pages. Best workout I ever got from just reading a book.

Dome contains an epic cast of believable characters, including a terrific chief villain who's part Idi Amin, part Annie Wilkes. It spends a lot of time exploring mob psychology and demagoguery. King's attention to detail is amazing; a TON of research went into this book and it shows. The ending is adequate, which is more than can be said for most King books imo.

Poor ending submitted by TLW1998 on July 26, 2019, 8:59pm King builds an intriguing world and scenario, but it does not come to a satisfying ending.