| Author | Message | ||
     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.146.253.215 |
I am about halfway through reading 'Under the Dome' by Stephen King - and enjoying it as I always enjoy King novels. It's mix of characters and viewpoints and political machinations under a giant inescapable microscope. POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW? The actual dome intrigues me. Its connection with Hallowe'en. It strikes me so far not so much as a dome but a cone. Shaped like a witch's hat? Or, possibly, more relevantly, a CONE ZERO as templated by the gestalt of the multi-authored 'Cone Zero' anthology? Or a phenomenon engendered by the Large Hadron Collider? Creating a Lord-of-the-Flies hothouse, a zoo of competing human animals, a Cern Zoo? Perhaps I shall find out how wrong or right I am by the end of the book. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.1.14 |
I just read the synopsis to King's UNDER THE DOME... why does it sound exactly like the plot of THE SIMPSONS MOVIE?... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
I'll bet King wishes he had a dollar for every time someone's asked that... There was also a novel in the early 1990s (I think) called ZOO EVENT that had a similar plot device. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 85.210.148.163 |
I was gifted this for Xmas. So far I'm waiting for a mechanical lifter to pick it up and turn the pages for me, it's that bloody heavy . . . | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.204.111.196 |
I, too, got this for Christmas. Alongside the Laurel & Hardy DVD boxset, and Moon on DVD. My list to Santa was heavily influenced by the RCMB... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Yup, I got it off Santy, too. Hey - Lynchy! Where you been, man? Good to have you back. |