Under the Dome - BoundCovers

Hardcover, 880 pages

English language

Published 2009 by Hodder & Stoughton.

ISBN:: 978-0-340-99256-2
OCLC Number:: 1195037173

(1 review)

Inexplicably, an invisible barrier has descended over the town. A woodchuck is chopped right in half; a gardener's hand is severed at the wrist: the plane explodes with sheets of flame spreading to the ground and Dale Barbara. Iraq war vet turned short- order cook. is force.d to turn back into the town he so desperately needed to leave.

As residents speculate about what has cut them off from the rest of the world, the Army searches for an inside man. Barbara is put in charge. But Big Jim Rennie, the man who holds the town in his powerful grip. has other plans. And the Dome could just be the answer to his prayers.

As food, electricity and water run short and children start to have premonitions of a terrifying Halloween. 'Barbie' is forced to take on Big Jim and his renegade supporters. Now time is running out for those …

Inexplicably, an invisible barrier has descended over the town. A woodchuck is chopped right in half; a gardener's hand is severed at the wrist: the plane explodes with sheets of flame spreading to the ground and Dale Barbara. Iraq war vet turned short- order cook. is force.d to turn back into the town he so desperately needed to leave.

As residents speculate about what has cut them off from the rest of the world, the Army searches for an inside man. Barbara is put in charge. But Big Jim Rennie, the man who holds the town in his powerful grip. has other plans. And the Dome could just be the answer to his prayers.

As food, electricity and water run short and children start to have premonitions of a terrifying Halloween. 'Barbie' is forced to take on Big Jim and his renegade supporters. Now time is running out for those living under the Dome. Can they find what has created it before it's too late? --front flap

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Will Sargent reviewed Under the Dome by Stephen King

Review of 'Under the Dome' on 'Storygraph'

2 stars

This is Stephen King's idea of what would happen if you stuck the GWB presidency in a small town and the stuck a glass jar over the entire thing. This isn't subtle. It's the entire thing. You've got a knock off version of Dick Cheney (the Second Selectman) running the show, with his amiable but idiot First Selectman being the figurehead. You've got people saying there's a "heck of a job" being done. You've got no holds barred political rants about libruls.

Which is fine, if that's what you're into. But in 2015, everyone would prefer to forget GWB and Cheney ever existed, and the entire thing is cringeworthy at this point -- the payoff comes when people die because Dick Cheney is Evil and Stupid and they are Weak and Easy Led Sheeple. But it turns out that watching people die for being stupid or because they're disposible got …

This is Stephen King's idea of what would happen if you stuck the GWB presidency in a small town and the stuck a glass jar over the entire thing. This isn't subtle. It's the entire thing. You've got a knock off version of Dick Cheney (the Second Selectman) running the show, with his amiable but idiot First Selectman being the figurehead. You've got people saying there's a "heck of a job" being done. You've got no holds barred political rants about libruls.

Which is fine, if that's what you're into. But in 2015, everyone would prefer to forget GWB and Cheney ever existed, and the entire thing is cringeworthy at this point -- the payoff comes when people die because Dick Cheney is Evil and Stupid and they are Weak and Easy Led Sheeple. But it turns out that watching people die for being stupid or because they're disposible got old about the second season of Lost.