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| Under the Dome Collector's Set: A Novel |
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Under the Dome Collector's Set: A Novel
Manufacturer: Scribner
by Stephen King
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List Price: $75.00
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ISBN/ASIN: 1439156972
Release Date: 2009-11-10
Sales Rank: 386549
Average Rating: 
Media: Hardcover
Product Group: Book
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| Product Description |
| This collector's edition of Under the Dome, Stephen King's tour-de-force new novel about a Maine town suddenly cut off by an invisible, impenetrable Dome, has a belly band around the jacket, a stamped case, four-color printed end papers, 27 part title illustrations of characters in the book drawn by renowned New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee, and a ribbon marker. The edition also contains a deck of 27 special collector's cards of the Diffee caricatures. Printed on specialty paper, this publication is limited to 25,000 copies. |
| Customer Reviews: Average Rating: 3.5/5 | | Great vividly told story!: Rating: 4/5 |
For an 1100-pager, this novel was really interesting. King does a great job of painting this chaotic scenario of a town physically cut off from the rest of the world.
As usual, King does a great job of building the 30+ characters in this story and does an EXTREMELY well job of capturing the emotion felt by each character. At one point, I felt as though I were under the dome on Barbie and Julia's side hating Rennie, Junior and the other crooked authorities more and more with each occuring event.
The only reason I didnt give this novel a 5 star rating is because I felt the need for a stronger ending. The way certain characters met their end was not justified. By the middle of the story, you hate certain characters to the point you would happily enjoy seeing them die 100 different ways before the story ends.
This was my first 1000+ pager and I'm happy I decided to read it. You can definitely see the time and effort King put into this work and for that I thank him.
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| | Not his best but...: Rating: 5/5 |
| It was an interesting story - Like ants under a magnifying glass, the people in this story scurry around trying to figure out what's wrong and how to remove The Dome. Interesting psychological aspects. |
| | A Masterpiece! As Usual!: Rating: 5/5 |
| This is a exceptional book! If you read the forward and note all the aspects of the story King wanted to nail, you'll see why the story came out the way it did. He accomplished everything he wanted! If you're a fan, you'll know that King likes the reader to think for themselves and has a habit of leaving his stories just "undone" enough to accomplish this. But in this case he conciously tightened his writing to create a more wrapped up package. Now mind you, I read all of King's book, no matter what, and have since I was in high school (now that's a long time!)but this is exceptional! The story is immediately engaging, fast paced, and comes to a very satisfying end. What more could the avid King reader ask for? Or just the avid reader? |
| | Under the spell: Rating: 4/5 |
I was once again under the spell of King as I read Under the Dome.
It's been a while since I've enjoyed one of his books as much as I did this one. I've been reading Stephen King for what seems like forever, and was thrilled to see one of his books that took me into it like this. In return, I become thrilled that it was as BIG a book as it was. When I find one I completely enjoy...I don't want it to end!!
I think he did a brilliant job of developing a vast lot of chacters that we could, after not much time, keep track of and watch them grow.
The only thing I would have liked to see is a stronger reason for the "dome". I can understand not wanting it to compete with all the action and developments inside the dome...but I felt just a little dissapointment there. Or maybe is was because the reason was brought in or at least, clues left out, until far into the end. I may have been a bit more accepting of the reason for the dome if a few more clues were thrown out a bit earlier so that I'd be ready for the lame idea.
Anyway...as for the story itself and the people involved....wonderful!! |
| | "Under the Dome" will pull you under its influence: Rating: 5/5 |
Probably the best compliment I can give to Stephen King's huge, sprawling novel, "Under the Dome", is that it could have been longer. In fact, I wouldn't have minded if Mr. King's lavish tale of a mysterious, impenetrable dome suddenly appearing over a sleepy Maine town had been presented to us as a trilogy. No, really. The first book could have been 500 or 600 pages long and covered the appearance of the dome and its initial effects on the residents of Chester's Mill; the second book could have been about the same size and titled "Life Under The Dome", depicting exactly that as the trapped townspeople adjust to their predicament, and many begin to scheme; and the third book could have been called "Endgame" or some such similar title, showing over the course of another 500 or 600 pages everything coming to a head. There was certainly enough potential story in Mr. King's compelling, imaginative scenario to fuel all that, to produce a story spanning weeks or even months.
Instead we have this one detailed yet fast-moving book that does all those things over the course of about 1000 pages that cover just under a week in the lives of the characters (things go bad really quickly in the story). And, who knows, maybe it's better that way. Because, even though I wanted to see more of the dozen or so active characters and their various situations, that doesn't mean that a wish like that should be granted. After all, isn't it a sign that something's working if it leaves you wanting more?
In "Under the Dome", Mr. King does what good authors should always do: He gives us a good bit of what we expect from a favorite author, but then throws in some surprises, too. Here we get the former in the way of that old King stand-by: a huge disaster coming out of nowhere that, as well as scaring us (and doing that quite well), is really there to reveal the true natures of the various characters in play. On the latter front, I was pleasantly surprised at the skillful, artful way that poetic description, especially of various characters' dark memories and the feelings going along with them, is weaved into the more immediate, concrete story of the dome and the deadly situation it presents.
More specifically, the increasing frustration of the dome, soon seen by many of the town's residents as a cruel cosmic joke inflicted by an uncaring, anonymous outside force (God? Aliens? Government scientists?), eventually dredges up several characters' own memories of cruelty, either cruelty they experienced at the hands of others, or, more sadly, cruelty they themselves inflicted. In fact, these dark memories, often presented in a dreamlike and nightmarish manner, might be the key to the characters' very undreamlike, increasingly dangerous current situation.
I really shouldn't say too much more, as it's best to just jump into the book, immerse yourself, and discover the story's surprises for yourself. But it's safe to tell you this: the big set pieces work great; the more intimate set pieces are just as good; and the characters, both the nicer ones and those of the more villainous variety, are all interesting and complex. My favorite characters were the ones who started out one way but found hidden strengths, depths, and skills as a result of the dome. This happens with a handful of both "good" and "bad" characters, though I liked it best when it happened to the good characters.
My final thought is an echo of my opening one: If "Under the Dome" seems potentially interesting to you, don't let the size of the book scare you off. Really, like me, you'll probably end up wishing it didn't end so soon. |
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