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Book Review of Under the Dome

Under the Dome
Under the Dome
Author: Stephen King
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 4


The King is back! I truly enjoyed this book. This book reminded me of The Stand, another dauntingly huge King book, but so worth the time. The characters are well formed. There is a good and evil battle, a hero and the bad guy, two groups of people in a small population fighting for what they think is right. A social tome if there ever was one.

King explains in the afterword that he actually started this one back in the 70's but didn't have the time to work out all the scientific peculiarities of what he wanted to portray in the story. Now that technology has advanced it made it easier to work out some of the issues and now he is also rich and was able to hire a researcher.