under the dome - stephen king
I still can't figure out why it took me so long to discover King's novels - I've read On Writing dozens of times, but I sort of shied away from the rest of his work. Anyway, I'm glad I am over that now, because Under the Dome was fantastic again: huge, and scary, and cruel (god, the man really knows how to pile up them bodies) and wonderful. I'm only about 75% happy about how it finally turns out, how the dome came about and how that is resolved, but really, that's just nitpicking about a riveting, satisfying story with lots of delightful characters.
King says in the afterword that he was aiming for a "pedal to the metal" novel, and this certainly is that. He's also written these 1100 pages in 480 days... Good grief. Hurray for Stephen King!
07-12-2009
