false 6320534 9 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.<P>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 select-woman, 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 in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out. 6760952 book 10 11 2009 Under the Dome: A Novel total:184|5:76|4:75|3:21|2:7|1:5| 184 762 2031 122 5 9 false false Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 08:28:56 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 11:02:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 16:43:12 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 14:05:05 -0700 2009
I wanted to share a letter, written by Nan Graham, Vice President & Editor-In-Chief at Simon & Schuster. It was ins...more...]]> 0 1 false false Fri Nov 06 14:58:55 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 09:24:50 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 00:17:26 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 00:48:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Nov 20 16:18:51 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 16:25:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 2 false false Wed Nov 18 12:17:44 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 12:38:20 -0800 2009
It started with a bang and I was immediately interested in how the people of Chester's Mill would react to the dome. Instead, I was introduced to thinly-drawn char...more...]]> 5 1 false true Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 16:12:36 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 16:27:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 4 false false Wed Sep 23 17:24:29 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 17:26:02 -0700 2009 Under the Dome is Stephen King's everything--including the kitchen sink--novel. It's got horror. It's got sci-fi. It's got corrupt small-town politics--the kind with the smiling-in-your face backstabbers King does so well. It's got well-realized kid characters, flawed good guys, beautiful on the...more...]]> 4 7 false false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 21:41:57 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 12:03:26 -0700 2009
The first hundred or so pages, I was like...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 14:51:08 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 19:08:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 21:15:21 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 07:46:55 -0800 2009
It's no coincidence that King's past epics, The Stand and It, are often cited as his many of his fans' favorites. 'Regular' King novels are good, and often great, but there's something about the door-stopper books that seem to make hi...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 09:54:28 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 09:40:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 16:13:09 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 19:02:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 06:49:52 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 10:06:44 -0800 2009
First and foremost, I liked this book. Like it quite a bit. It suffered from the things Stephen King books always suffer from: an extra 200 pages of pa...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 14 08:49:30 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 19:26:44 -0800 2009
The part...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 11:49:10 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 16:11:33 -0800 2009
No could get in, no one could get out. Power was down. Cell phones and the interne...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 11:38:02 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 12:24:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 11:34:13 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 13:51:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 06 12:40:05 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 14:15:38 -0800 2009
He really says a lot in this one.

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I can't read fast enough. I feel like skimming just so I can see what happens, because the crap is about to go down in a MAJOR way. However, there are so many juicy little details ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 15:24:01 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 15:32:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6320534