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About to embark on Under the Dome - Yay or Nay?

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GetStuffezd · 25/07/2013 19:43

I love SK on the whole, though there have been some shockers (Cell)
I have re-read The Stand countless times and the blurb seems to link UTD to The Stand.
What does anyone think of it?

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KittenofDoom · 09/08/2013 19:12

I gave up on this one about 150 pages in. Agree with OP, too many characters thrown at me in rapid succession and I either didn't like them or didn't care about them. Also quite violent and gory, which is not what I enjoy from SK.

NadiaWadia · 09/08/2013 01:19

I have read and enjoyed quite a few SKs, but this one was very meh. The ending was strange too. Gave it to DH for Christmas one year, and we both disliked it and it ended up going to a charity shop (usually I hang on to my books until they are falling apart.)

11.22.63 (the one about time travel and the Kennedy assassination) though was brilliant.

Still, you might love it!

mummymacbeth · 08/08/2013 00:47

I really enjoyed it. I have read only a few SK books, and this one made me want to read more. No surprises in terms of the characters, or turn of phrase etc but still the guy is a genius and a master story teller. Didn't know there was a series and I am off to find out more thanks Smile

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Bean74 · 03/08/2013 20:03

Heard its going to be on channel 5 in the Autumn.

sunnymoonbeams · 02/08/2013 22:19

Is the TV version on in the UK? Or have I missed it!?

KalevalaForMePlease · 31/07/2013 11:42

I loved it as well, that sense of impeding doom the whole way through...
TV series is being shown here (oz) atm. Have watched a few episodes and have given up. Too many changes to the characters, unfortunately.

Titsalinabumsquash · 31/07/2013 11:40

I'm watching the series, it's good every bastard one of the episodes ends on a cliff hanger!

I've not read the book though.

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GetStuffezd · 31/07/2013 11:35

I know what you mean about the doom feeling! I just feel he keeps skipping from one character to another without giving us enough time to get into that character. Result = I don't give a shit about any of them!

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Thurlow · 31/07/2013 11:33

Really liked it, though I always struggle with that impending sense of doom in SK books like this - well, more of an impending sense of 'everything and everyone is going to get complete and utterly fucked'. It did take a while to really settle in, though.

11.22.63 was absolutely great, when you've decided you've recovered enough from one 1,000 brick for another one.

EBearhug · 28/07/2013 22:11

Took me quite a while to get into it, but then I enjoyed it, though also not so keen on the ending.

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GetStuffezd · 28/07/2013 20:45

So far I want to stab everyone with the surname Rennie...
Going to bed soon for an early night and no laptop to distract me from reading!

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superbagpuss · 28/07/2013 20:25

its long and takes ages to get into

had to 'put it in the fridge' a few times in the middle

was glad to finish it in a good way

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 28/07/2013 20:21

I like it a lot, apart from the very silly ending. The rest of it is King at his best - ie: people flung together in peculiar circumstances and the connections and confrontations within this.

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GetStuffezd · 28/07/2013 20:16

100 pages in and I'm not really getting into it. I hate most of the characters, which is never a good sign.... I will persevere!

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Rufus43 · 28/07/2013 20:05

I didn't like the ending, but would agree that is a great small town America read. Actually I didn't like the bit just before the end, bandstand/children for those who have read it. The ending right at the very end was good

Bean74 · 27/07/2013 21:09

Just finished it. Definitely had me hooked & was v fast paced but wasn't quite as good as The Stand

ravenAK · 27/07/2013 03:22

Disappointing ending, I thought! Might re-read.

LuvMyBoyz · 27/07/2013 02:46

Readit obsessively until it was finished...loved it.

andadietcoke · 25/07/2013 23:10

I loved it, but there was one part that still haunts me years after reading it - I got a bit existential over it!!

The tv programme has just started in the states so am watching that.

pointythings · 25/07/2013 23:07

Yea, definitely one of his better ones - small town America under the microscope, which SK does so very well.

Didyeaye · 25/07/2013 21:35

I'm not a huge SK fan either but really enjoyed Under the Dome. Didn't know there was going to be a series, thanks edlyu

PollyPlummer · 25/07/2013 21:35

I couldn't get in to it, love SK and he is my go to when I haven't got anything else to read.
I did have teething twins at the time, so that could be why.
Keep on meaning to give it another shot.

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GetStuffezd · 25/07/2013 21:32

I did note the Simpsons similarity! :-)
Off to bed now to give it a go - it's massive!

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edlyu · 25/07/2013 21:29

Loved it and am waiting not very patiently for the series .

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