So I am basically going to add on a review at the bottom that was not posted with my Amazon review. This added review is for my Christian friends and reading this from a Christian perspective.
Under the Dome is a huge novel, over 1000 pages, that takes place in the span of 6 days... Crazy?? No, King! Only Stephen King can take one tiny little week and create an intricate web of lives and stories that play together to form a novel of 1000+ pages and make the entire thing worth reading. The number of characters, the mass of details, and the supernatural nature of the story are all written together in such a flawless way. What is the Dome? I guess you'll have to read it to find out... no spoilers here. Dale Barbara is the somewhat lead character, or at least is very central to the plot, and he is an ex-military man turned short order cook in a local small town restaurant Briar Rose. He is mere feet away from leaving that foresaken town of Chesters Mill when the Dome crashes down, or up, or both. Many accidents and deaths occur as people learn more about the Dome and the force around it. Is it created by a terrorist sect, just a strange natural occurance, or something more. Follow the survivors of Dome Day as they figure out how to live in a society that is creating its own greenhouse effect with very little oxygen exchange from the outside. As they are now living in a place and time where the law is enforced and made up by crooked men looking for power and control, wanting to be worshipped and never questioned. How do you fight a power that cannot be taken down, and when you fail... how do you get away?
I really enjoyed this book a lot. The language was, umm, colorful to say the least. Being from Maine and having all of my family still there, I do know that this is the way they talk, King wrote it to be real and he would know since that's where he lives also! I listened to the audio book (reading the real book I may never have finished) and I had to keep this book on headphones instead of listening through my docking station or in the car because I have 4 kids and it was totally inappropiate for their ears. The audio book was well read and performed, I wish the person performing it would have had a New England accent or at least portrayed one for the story, but he still did very well. Not the greatest audio book I've encountered, but very good and made it easier to finish the book while staying busy.
Add on:
This book is written by Stephen King, so any of my Christian friends that are considering reading it are probably not super conservative about their literature. As I said earlier, the language is definitely an issue. That I can remember there is one sexual situation that was a bit uncomfortable to say the least, but goes along with the story line and is not done tastelessly. If you've read Stephen King then you know what you're getting into, if you haven't... you probably shouldn't start with this one if you are going to start at all.
