Adem reviewed Under the Dome by Stephen King
Review of 'Under the Dome' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Not bad. This is the first of his books I've picked up since The Dark Tower ended in 2004. It's definitely a Stephen King book. It's got that thing going where all the characters talk like they're from 1970's New England.
According to the author's note at the end, he first came up with the idea and wrote a little bit of it in 1977, but stopped because he wasn't confident in his ability to plausibly describe the conditions that might obtain in a town sealed off from the outside world by an invisible wall. I'd be interested to find out which portions of the story were original and which were added during his 2007 writing sessions, because there are really two stories here. There's a sort of cosmic horror piece about being toyed with by unknown inhuman forces that bookends a political horror piece about living in a polity …
Not bad. This is the first of his books I've picked up since The Dark Tower ended in 2004. It's definitely a Stephen King book. It's got that thing going where all the characters talk like they're from 1970's New England.
According to the author's note at the end, he first came up with the idea and wrote a little bit of it in 1977, but stopped because he wasn't confident in his ability to plausibly describe the conditions that might obtain in a town sealed off from the outside world by an invisible wall. I'd be interested to find out which portions of the story were original and which were added during his 2007 writing sessions, because there are really two stories here. There's a sort of cosmic horror piece about being toyed with by unknown inhuman forces that bookends a political horror piece about living in a polity driven mad by fear and willing to suspend civilized government in favor of an authoritarian who promises protection. The former almost seems like it was a short story pressed into service as a setup for the latter, which reads like an obvious reaction to the Bush years.
