Under the Dome - BoundCovers

Hardcover, 1417 pages

English language

Published 2009 by Thorndike Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-4104-2396-2
OCLC Number:: 456977633

(1 review)

On a beautiful fall day in Chester's mIll, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. No one can fathom what this barrier is and when--or if--it will go away. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens. Agains them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing--even murder--to hold the reins of power, and his sone, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. (back cover)

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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.

Subjects

Large type books
Maine -- Fiction