La cúpula

Paperback, 544 pages

Published Nov. 16, 2021 by Vintage Espanol.

ISBN:
978-0-593-31158-5
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4 stars (98 reviews)

On an entirely normal, 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. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, 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—town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a selectwoman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing—even murder—to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret …

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Review of 'Under the Dome' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars


If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.

Stephen King is no stranger to putting more or less ordinary people in strange situations and let them deal with it. This book follows a similar recipe, cutting off a small town from the rest of the world completely. A drifter ex-soldier as one of the main heroes is not a novel idea. Neither is the"island" idea of being cut off from rest of the world. And of course neither is a despot trying to take over his little corner of the world. Put it all together and you get Under the dome.Looking back at the story, the villains are quite easy to identify early on. But their slow change from small-town jerks to full on villains is nevertheless quite a thing to watch. I kept asking (and still wonder) why and how would ordinary people let someone grab …

Review of 'Under the Dome' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I wanted to rate this book three stars and then four stars and then three stars again and I figured it was a tie, and as we all know tie goes to the runner so four stars it is.

This is not a story specific spoiler, but a more Stephen King in general spoiler. Stephen King, being a prototypical pantser (someone who writes by the seat of their pants with no outline), again comes to a soft landing at the end of this book. The characters are vivid and it is a page turner, if a bit loosely-goosey in the plot department.

Review of 'Under the Dome' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

If GoodReads allowed it, I'd give thus book a 4.5, but I'll round it up because it was closer to 5 than 4. I really liked this one. It's big, but its a quick read, and I love the huge cast that King takes on to give us all these points of view under the dome.

Review of 'Under the Dome' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

The perfect blend of satirical, entertaining, and terrifying. It certainly didn't feel 1,000+ pages long, though there were some seemingly extraneous scenes I just skipped over. I also thought the ending was...odd. All of a sudden too metaphorical and paranormal-y to fit with the tone of the rest of the book. Although I certainly am in no position to criticize the King, and I'm not sure how I would have ended it more satisfactorily...

Review of 'Under the Dome' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

SPOILERS

This was the first book of Stephen King's that I've read. I loved the way he played with words, played with the reader, and immersed the reader into the story. The cast of characters was huge, and King handled them masterfully. I was constantly impressed with his ruthlessness. The book begins and ends with killing, gore, and horror. The idea of a city being isolated from the rest of the world by an impenetrable, invisible dome is unique and entertaining. King did a great job exploring the possible consequences of an event like that, exploring the nature of human fear especially. The main villain became more and more horrifically inhuman as the novel went on (before dying a completely human death). The reader was taken to the very edges of hope and pulled along toward the end, constantly wondering how King was going to pull this off. Several times …

Review of 'D me - Tome 2' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Voici un bon gros double-pavé totalement jouissif jusqu’à ses dernières pages. Point de véritable horreur ou ni de pure de science-fiction dans ce roman psychologique qui flirte avec le sadisme. King nous isole un petit village du reste du monde. Pas d’explication, aucune raison particulière pour qu’un beau jour le village se retrouve prisonnier d’une barrière invisible et indestructible. Les efforts du monde extérieur pour détruire le dôme sont vains, et assez pathétiques dans l’ensemble. L’armée américaine en a mal à l’ego.
Mais peu importe l’origine du pourquoi du comment, l’intérêt réside dans le village, dans sa population, diverse et variée, qui se retrouve livrée à elle-même. Ou plutôt livrée à son maire et à son adjoint, le véritable homme fort de la ville, qui assoie son pouvoir dans l’ombre du premier conseiller (équivalent de notre maire, donc).
On entre vite dans le vif du sujet, et c’est dans une …

Review of 'Dôme - Tome 1' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Voici un bon gros double-pavé totalement jouissif jusqu’à ses dernières pages. Point de véritable horreur ou ni de pure de science-fiction dans ce roman psychologique qui flirte avec le sadisme. King nous isole un petit village du reste du monde. Pas d’explication, aucune raison particulière pour qu’un beau jour le village se retrouve prisonnier d’une barrière invisible et indestructible. Les efforts du monde extérieur pour détruire le dôme sont vains, et assez pathétiques dans l’ensemble. L’armée américaine en a mal à l’ego.
Mais peu importe l’origine du pourquoi du comment, l’intérêt réside dans le village, dans sa population, diverse et variée, qui se retrouve livrée à elle-même. Ou plutôt livrée à son maire et à son adjoint, le véritable homme fort de la ville, qui assoie son pouvoir dans l’ombre du premier conseiller (équivalent de notre maire, donc).
On entre vite dans le vif du sujet, et c’est dans une …

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