While at Wal-Mart I was just browsing around the book aisle expecting to find books that would capture zero attention from me until I saw a picture of an invisible dome on one of the covers; the dome had a plane wreck inside and I was visually attracted. In this case I did judge the book by its cover and my judgment was actually a good one. I picked up the hefty a thousand and seventy-four page book titled Under the Dome and realized it’d be a good read for SSR. It was a book Stephen King started in nineteen eighty-two under the title The Cannibals.
The premise of this novel is that inexplicably an invisible dome encircles a small town thus separating it from the rest of the world. The citizens rely on their town leaders to help them understand what is going on but unfortunately their town’s leadership is not what it all what it seems. The book shows a good example of what extent people go to when they are no longer a part of the world but actually are their own world. The book is full of anger, love, deception, confusion, clarity and corruption all beautifully woven together to create what I would call a definite read for anyone interested in what people do when they become isolated.
For my first ever Stephen King novel, also his newest, I was overwhelmed with the number of characters in the book but that’s where all the meat is. Every character is entwined with each other in one way or another although it may sound that so many characters would confuse the reader. But the characters lives are explained in such depth that you know who is who.
The book is full of suspense at every page. I was not able to sleep at night reading this very complex yet clear piece of work and I very much recommend this to anyone who has the patience to read such a beautiful monstrosity of a book.