La Cupula

Paperback, 1132 pages

Spanish language

Published July 2010 by Vintage Español, Vintage Books USA, Vintage Espanol.

ISBN:
978-0-307-74112-7
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OCLC Number:
898935734

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2 stars (1 review)

Una historia apocalíptica e hipnótica.

Es una soleada mañana de otoño en la pequeña ciudad de Chester's Mill, Claudette Sanders disfruta de su clase de vuelo y Dale Barbara hace auto-stop en las afueras. Ninguno de los dos llegará a su destino.

De la nada ha aparecido encima de la ciudad una barrera invisible que parece una especie de burbuja irrompible. Al descender, ha cortado por la mitad a una marmota y ha amputado la mano a un jardinero. El avión que pilotaba Claudette ha chocado contra la cúpula y se ha precipitado al suelo envuelto en llamas. Dale Barbara, veterano de la guerra de Iraq, debe regresar ahora a Chester's Mill, el lugar que tanto deseaba abandonar.

El ejercito pone a Dale al cargo de la situación pero Big Jim Rennie, el hombre que tiene un pie en todos los negocios sucios de la ciudad, no está de acuerdo; …

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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 …