Under the Dome

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First Scribner hardcover edition, 1074 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2009 by Scribner.

ISBN:
978-1-4391-4850-1
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OCLC Number:
965578503

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2 stars (1 review)

Under the Dome 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.

When food, electricity and water run short, the normal rules of society are changed. A new and more sinister social order develops, Dale Barbara, a young 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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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 …

Subjects

  • Maine--Fiction.