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     Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.167.118.163 |
I started this the other night...And have already caned through 200 pages... Blimey, only King can do this to me, Though that said, I did struggle with the first 100 pages or so of 'Duma Key' though it was ultimately worth my perseverance. Great stuff so far...Well up to snuff. gcw | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.100.26 |
Good to hear - not got it yet, but I loved Duma Key. May as well wait for the paperback of Dome - not as if I don't have enough to read already! | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 188.147.215.164 |
I'm also reading Under The Dome, which has been so far from what I've read, excellent. It'll have to go a long way to beating 'Lisey's Story', which for me is one of the best books he's ever written. | ||
| Colin Leslie (Blackabyss) Username: Blackabyss Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 86.132.5.239 |
I will be interested to see if you both still like it after you have finished it. No spoilers but I had issues with the ending. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.167.118.163 |
Ok Colin - I will report back when I've finished. gcw | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.155.48.70 |
I'm reading it now and am really struggling. King can at times feel so automatic pilot he might as well be writing Goosebumps books. He might knock Stephenie Meyer but at least there's a sense to her books of atmosphere and pace. Dome is rushed but feels so damned slow. And must he really rub details in so heavily? It's like having the dvd extras play with the watching of a movie, just info-overload, and not just that but over-info-overload. And if we have crazy priests in another King book I'll track him down and shoot him. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.155.48.70 |
Colorado was so much better. It hasn't helped that I picked up Study in Scarlet recently and found it was 124 pages long, had oodles of warmth and character and atmosphere. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.31.8.83 |
Isn't that feeling of auto-pilot you get from King just his Mozartian gift for deceptive simplicity? I know what you mean, and actually feel the same way about Mozart. Maybe it just comes too easily at times, and that tends towards the functional rather than the inspired. Still a purring delight, though. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
I loved it; very powerful, and you could see this was his response to the eight years of the Bush Administration. There are no shortage of allegories- political, environmental- in there, but it works, first and foremost, as a story. Gcw and Mick- I loved Duma Key! I was never 100% in love with Lisey's Story, although it certainly wasn't a bad book- but Duma Key I thought was brilliant, one of the best of his I'd read in a long time. I don't mind the length of his novels as long as they don't bore. I actually quite like sinking into it and luxuriating, wallow in the texture, atmosphere, the world he's created. I know that's not for everyone but it works for me.  | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
I enjoyed Under the Dome a lot. Never once did it feel like an 800+ word book. As Gary and Simon have said above, he makes it look so damn easy sometimes. It wasn't perfect, of course. I can see how the source of the dome and the ending might not be to everyone's taste. But it was an entertaining blockbuster of a novel with, as Simon notes, other levels to enjoy if you're so inclined. | ||
| Seanmcd (Seanmcd) Username: Seanmcd Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.153.160.229 |
I'm over 200 pages into this and the allegories were evident from the get go. But, like you say Simon, I'm also wallowing in the increasingly nasty town of Chester's Mill. I hadn't read any King since the late 80's (Misery I think) and picked up 'Cell' 2 years go for my holiday read. I really enjoyed it. So i was tempted by this Dome tome for this years 'by the pool' reading. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
"I enjoyed Under the Dome a lot. Never once did it feel like an 800+ word book" Should that be pages rather than words? | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 217.20.16.180 |
Indeed. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
http://horror.about.com/b/2011/09/01/stephen-kings-under-the-dome-to-become-show time-series.htm?nl=1 | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
He claims he hadn't seen the Simpsons movie when he started writing it... | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
I believe him. I watched an interview with him not so long back. He joked about it. He was told about it when he finished the book and somebody read the manuscript form. I don't think he would have written it otherwise. | ||
| Darren O. Godfrey (Darren_o_godfrey) Username: Darren_o_godfrey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.200.116.133 |
I don't think the Simpsons was even a TV series at the time he started in on the project (initially called "The Cannibals"). | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
There's a wee bit on (bastion of truth) wikipedia's article relating to King's original draft and the Simpsons comparisons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Dome#The_Cannibals_as_inspiration | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.151.147.15 |
I hope that's not a spoiler for the book... reference to cannibals... | ||
| Darren O. Godfrey (Darren_o_godfrey) Username: Darren_o_godfrey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.200.116.133 |
Not at all, Weber. It went in a different direction from where he was expecting. |