Under the Dome by Stephen King
Why?
This is terrible but I cannot remember why I picked this book. I think I was lead to it by Book Riot's
2019 Read Harder Challenge but now I look, I have no idea which task it would fit under. Although I loved Horror and Stephen King as a teenager, I haven't read one of his books in over 20 years so whatever the why was, I'm grateful.
What?
Otherwise known as amazon spiel:
Adapted as a major TV series, produced by Steven Spielberg, King's bestselling novel centres on a small town suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible dome.
In UNDER THE DOME, King has produced another riveting masterpiece. The end of every chapter hooks you into the next, drawing you inside a psychological drama that is so rich, you don't read it, you live it.
It is the story of the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine which is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. No one can get in and no one can get out.
The normal rules of society are suddenly changed and when food, electricity and water run short, the community begins to crumble. As a new and more sinister social order develops, Dale Barbara, Iraq veteran, teams up with a handful of intrepid citizens to fight against the corruption that is sweeping through the town and to try to discover the source of the Dome before it is too late . . .
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This is a big day for me. This is my first 5 coffee cip review since I started this. And they are not expresso's - these are big full coffee cups. As you will see from my recent post, Book Blogger on holiday, I haven't been having my usual love affair with books. The coffee and tea continues and never seems to be impacted but the book love suffered. This therefore was a brilliant book to pick up. And it was a bit of effort to pick it up - it is a monster, over 800 pages. I looked at it with a dread but I was enthralled all the way through.
Under The Dome examines life wihtout construct and rules, without givernement and law. It very cleverly reminds us of previous literary and television perspectives of human attempts at self governance; there is mention of Lord of the Flies and Lost amongst others. I liked this Brectian attempt to remind us that we were not actually part of the book and was actually quite grateful for that as it is a frightening prospect. I was not quite so sure about the inclusion of Jack Reacher. Seemed a bit daft - perhaps King and Lee Child are buddies?
Although this is not technically a horror, this is a frightening book. Big Jim and Junior (actually I found his friends more disturbing, at least Junior had an excuse) were horrible; truly horrible.
Under The Dome examines life wihtout construct and rules, without givernement and law. It very cleverly reminds us of previous literary and television perspectives of human attempts at self governance; there is mention of Lord of the Flies and Lost amongst others. I liked this Brectian attempt to remind us that we were not actually part of the book and was actually quite grateful for that as it is a frightening prospect. I was not quite so sure about the inclusion of Jack Reacher. Seemed a bit daft - perhaps King and Lee Child are buddies?
Although this is not technically a horror, this is a frightening book. Big Jim and Junior (actually I found his friends more disturbing, at least Junior had an excuse) were horrible; truly horrible.
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