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A review by seekup
Under the Dome by Stephen King
3.0
I found this quite similar to The Stand. The situations were obviously a bit different, but the concept is similar: a group of people having to come together and govern themselves in the face of a freak occurrence, where the town/group quickly divides into camps. You always want to see good triumph over evil, and this time was no different.
If it's one thing that Stephen King does well, it's creating atmosphere, creating a backdrop where the situation continues to build and you know something is going to happen, you're just not sure what or when. Sometimes he does it too well and then goes nowhere with it (The Long Walk, I'm looking at you). This one wasn't exactly that, but there were parts of the novel that made me quite anxious, enough so that I'd have to put it down and pick it up again later. I was, however, a little disappointed with a) how he "got rid of" some of the characters and 2) the explanation of the dome. It wasn't anticlimactic, per se, but I felt a little let down that after all that many pages, the outcome wasn't as satisfying as I wanted.
If it's one thing that Stephen King does well, it's creating atmosphere, creating a backdrop where the situation continues to build and you know something is going to happen, you're just not sure what or when. Sometimes he does it too well and then goes nowhere with it (The Long Walk, I'm looking at you). This one wasn't exactly that, but there were parts of the novel that made me quite anxious, enough so that I'd have to put it down and pick it up again later. I was, however, a little disappointed with a) how he "got rid of" some of the characters and 2) the explanation of the dome. It wasn't anticlimactic, per se, but I felt a little let down that after all that many pages, the outcome wasn't as satisfying as I wanted.