The chapters are huge - averaging around forty or fifty pages each – but broken up into much more manageable sub-chapters, make the epically long tale easier to pick up and put down as time permits. Newcomers to his talents and his fame, will be attracted to his writing style (not to mention his genius) and will no doubt join the every growing legion of book lovers and fans as they rush to dedicate their literary lives to reading more of his works. The writing, as always, is trademark King, and us Constant Readers will love him forever for it. This may well be the case on one level, but it’s also a highly entertaining trip through the highs and lows of the human soul on another. On first inspection, the reader may deduce its nothing but a basic lesson in SOCIAL STUDIES.

WHAT STARTED OUT as a story of pure fantasy (a magical dome comes out of nowhere and traps the population of a small town in rural America inside) eventually evolves into a heart breaking tale of murder, death, destruction, love, loss, friendship, betrayal, and even sacrifice. As a new and more sinister social order develops, Dale Barbara, 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.ĪN EMOTIONAL TRIBUTE TO THE PAST BY A LITERARY GENIUS! The normal rules of society are suddenly changed and when food, electricity and water run short, the community begins to crumble.

No one can get in and no one can get out. It 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. The end of every chapter hooks you into the next, drawing you inside a psychological drama that is so rich, you don't read it, you live it. In Under the Dome, he has produced another riveting masterpiece. The New York Times describes it as a 'relentless tidal pull' and Stephen King has done it time and time again with stories like The Shawshank Redemption, Misery, The Green Mile and The Stand. He knows how to write stories that suck you in and are impossible to put down. There's a reason why Stephen King is one of the best selling writers in the world ever.

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