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3.97 AVERAGE
3.97 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
tense
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Nonstop suspense. So many characters to keep track of, but what a thrilling ride!
All hail The King!
All hail The King!
Di buku ini, kasus menjadi semakin bertambah. Karena Barbie aka Barbara, mendapat tuduhan bahwa dia membunuh beberapa orang. Tidak ada yang bisa membuktikan bahwa dialah pembunuhnya. Namun, tentu saja si pembunuh asli tengah melimpahkan kesalahannya pada Barbie karena banyak penduduk yang tidak percaya pada Barbie. Meski sekali lagi, mereka tidak dapat membuktikannya. Bahkan Rose, seorang wanita yang menjadi bos Barbie selama bertahun-tahun, dia tahu bahwa Barbie tidak mungkin melakukan hal itu.
Belum lagi Big Jim yang memiliki kuasa pada wilayah Chester's Mill ini yang sungguh memuakkan, dia melakukan beberapa pencurian propane demi menghidupkan generator kantor walikota. Tidak mau memedulikan warganya, seperti biasa, dia memang pejabat korup. Namun, dalam buku ini, kita sebagai pembaca tidak memiliki kuasa apapun untuk menghakimi apalagi menghukumnya. Kita hanya dibiarkan pasrah, bagaimana tokoh lain berusaha untuk melepaskan diri dari jeratan kekuasan tersebut, juga pasrah dengan keputusan yang ada.
Sungguh, memang rasanya melelahkan sekali karena sepanjang membaca novel ini, saya berkali-kali merasa emosi jiwa dan raga akibat tidak bisa membuat Big Jim dan antek-anteknya segera mati saja. Atau tertelah Kubah, gitu. Entah kenapa justru pihak National Guard juga memang mengulur-ulur usaha mereka untuk menolong. Seolah warga Chester's Mill sedang berada di lokasi Gladiator, siapa yang mampu bertahan hidup, dialah pemenangnya. Gila memang!
Blog Review : https://www.bacaanipeh.web.id/2018/08/book-review-under-dome-book-by-stephen-king.html
Belum lagi Big Jim yang memiliki kuasa pada wilayah Chester's Mill ini yang sungguh memuakkan, dia melakukan beberapa pencurian propane demi menghidupkan generator kantor walikota. Tidak mau memedulikan warganya, seperti biasa, dia memang pejabat korup. Namun, dalam buku ini, kita sebagai pembaca tidak memiliki kuasa apapun untuk menghakimi apalagi menghukumnya. Kita hanya dibiarkan pasrah, bagaimana tokoh lain berusaha untuk melepaskan diri dari jeratan kekuasan tersebut, juga pasrah dengan keputusan yang ada.
Sungguh, memang rasanya melelahkan sekali karena sepanjang membaca novel ini, saya berkali-kali merasa emosi jiwa dan raga akibat tidak bisa membuat Big Jim dan antek-anteknya segera mati saja. Atau tertelah Kubah, gitu. Entah kenapa justru pihak National Guard juga memang mengulur-ulur usaha mereka untuk menolong. Seolah warga Chester's Mill sedang berada di lokasi Gladiator, siapa yang mampu bertahan hidup, dialah pemenangnya. Gila memang!
Blog Review : https://www.bacaanipeh.web.id/2018/08/book-review-under-dome-book-by-stephen-king.html
This book suffered more than the first in terms of build-up to pay off. The last 300 or so pages almost dragged for me. King overplayed his hand; he built up tension so much that, after 900+ pages, I was ready to know. I was ready for it all to come to a head and finally burst. In the end, there were too many threads that still needed tying up.
It's worth noting that I don't know how I would have felt if I had read Under the Dome in one long volume. It's possible that this feeling was more pressing because I'd already pressed through and read a whole book before this came along. I can't say for sure. All I know is that the build up is more substantial and more satisfying than the release. I enjoyed plot threads growing, linking, in a tightly drawn net that I was sure was going to unravel like dominoes falling in a line. Instead it was slower, more like a slinky falling down the stairs in steps.
This is one thing that I cannot let go of: Stephen King hates fat people. He hates them, he's fascinated by them, and every single fat character has their fat used as an example of a weakness of character. They don't have enough willpower, they procrastinate on their health, they're in some way shortsighted, stupid, or lesser. He also loves to do the Death Fat thing. IE, everyone more than a pound overweight is basically going to drop dead of a heart attack at ANY SECOND. It's a matter of time!!! Fat people suck up all the medical supplies and are definitely going to have a heart attack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It would be hurtful if it wasn't so cliche and, I would wish, below a writer like him. I just really had to get that off my chest. Stephen King, fat people aren't going to hurt you. Please calm down and stop using fat as a physical manifestation of people's weaknesses and character flaws.
Anyway. Spoilers under this line!!!
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So, the revelation of the aliens. I have to say that I prefer King at his more supernatural than sci-fi, but I actually liked the eventual payoff more than I liked the initial reveal. The execution of the point was very good, unexpected, and it struck back against the idea of the guns-blazing, human will shining through, alien take-down that I was prepared to expect.
These aren't aliens that underestimated human intelligence, or love, or will. They weren't taken down because they were allergic to water or the common cold was their Smallpox. They left because one of them, for one moment, was moved to... something. The book says "pity", but specifies that the leatherhead was not sorry for what had happened, but agreed not to let it go on. To me, that's less pity (which takes, to my mind, some small degree of empathy; an understanding of what it would be like to be on the other end, and to know that you would find the treatment unpleasant, and so to feel a moment of sorrow for your projected self in another person), but mercy which is as cold as it is welcome in the novel. Mercy is what the strong give the weak that they have no right to expect and no power to enforce. A boon was granted, and the Dome was lifted, and eight people out of two thousand lived. Hurrah.
King really can't keep out of the supernatural spookies, though. This world was littered with references that show that this was a sci-fi novel set in a world where the natural world is more complex than ours. A world where dogs hear the voices of the dead all the time (and maybe they do in ours; I can't say) and at the very last second Big Jim Rennie is left alone with the people he killed in his life. It's a complicated world, and does show just how little the characters truly understand about the world that they live in.
But, hey. Wear it home, it'll fit you like a dress.
It's worth noting that I don't know how I would have felt if I had read Under the Dome in one long volume. It's possible that this feeling was more pressing because I'd already pressed through and read a whole book before this came along. I can't say for sure. All I know is that the build up is more substantial and more satisfying than the release. I enjoyed plot threads growing, linking, in a tightly drawn net that I was sure was going to unravel like dominoes falling in a line. Instead it was slower, more like a slinky falling down the stairs in steps.
This is one thing that I cannot let go of: Stephen King hates fat people. He hates them, he's fascinated by them, and every single fat character has their fat used as an example of a weakness of character. They don't have enough willpower, they procrastinate on their health, they're in some way shortsighted, stupid, or lesser. He also loves to do the Death Fat thing. IE, everyone more than a pound overweight is basically going to drop dead of a heart attack at ANY SECOND. It's a matter of time!!! Fat people suck up all the medical supplies and are definitely going to have a heart attack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It would be hurtful if it wasn't so cliche and, I would wish, below a writer like him. I just really had to get that off my chest. Stephen King, fat people aren't going to hurt you. Please calm down and stop using fat as a physical manifestation of people's weaknesses and character flaws.
Anyway. Spoilers under this line!!!
----------
So, the revelation of the aliens. I have to say that I prefer King at his more supernatural than sci-fi, but I actually liked the eventual payoff more than I liked the initial reveal. The execution of the point was very good, unexpected, and it struck back against the idea of the guns-blazing, human will shining through, alien take-down that I was prepared to expect.
These aren't aliens that underestimated human intelligence, or love, or will. They weren't taken down because they were allergic to water or the common cold was their Smallpox. They left because one of them, for one moment, was moved to... something. The book says "pity", but specifies that the leatherhead was not sorry for what had happened, but agreed not to let it go on. To me, that's less pity (which takes, to my mind, some small degree of empathy; an understanding of what it would be like to be on the other end, and to know that you would find the treatment unpleasant, and so to feel a moment of sorrow for your projected self in another person), but mercy which is as cold as it is welcome in the novel. Mercy is what the strong give the weak that they have no right to expect and no power to enforce. A boon was granted, and the Dome was lifted, and eight people out of two thousand lived. Hurrah.
King really can't keep out of the supernatural spookies, though. This world was littered with references that show that this was a sci-fi novel set in a world where the natural world is more complex than ours. A world where dogs hear the voices of the dead all the time (and maybe they do in ours; I can't say) and at the very last second Big Jim Rennie is left alone with the people he killed in his life. It's a complicated world, and does show just how little the characters truly understand about the world that they live in.
But, hey. Wear it home, it'll fit you like a dress.
dark
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Under the Dome is brilliant. It portrays the lives of those living in a small town, when an unexplainable and unbreakable dome settles around them - sealing them off from the rest of the world, and leaving them in the hands of corruption, panic, and so much worse. I loved it.
This is the kind of book that makes me understand how Stephen King keeps publishing books and having them become instant best sellers. The first part of Under the Dome wasn't fantastic, but wasn't terrible, whereas I found myself flying through this part. Maybe it's just my, as I did have a years gap between reading the two, but this is now my favourite SK book by far.