UNDER THE DOME

Stephen King

This is a great big--I mean BIG--book, coming in at 1172 pages. There's no denying King holds your interest with his prose, and his ability to write villians is unsurpassed. So is his imagination when it comes to weird plots. Even the research for this tome, according to his author's notes, is meticulous. But there comes a point when as a reader, I've got to say, "All right already. I've got it. Second Councilman Rennie is a bad guy, a really bad guy. You don't have to keep rubbing my nose in it. And so is Junior, and Carter, and Randolph and all his other adherents." But Mr. King, with all due respect, enough finally becomes enough. This book, in my opinion, would've been better if at least a quarter of it had been cut. I, for one, would have enjoyed the story more had I not become impatient with the repetition.