I spent all day yesterday reading Stephen King's "Under the Dome". It's a thick book and I didn't manage to finish it all, but am very near the end, which really won't offer a huge surprise but...well...there are only a few ways it could end.
It's a good read, but I confess I'm a bit disappointed that it is remindful of so many other King stories that came before it, primarily "The Tommyknockers" and "The Stand". That said, King still has a very skilfull way of pegging personality types and the ways they work in social frameworks.
Frankly, I don't know of another writer who can cram as many characters in a novel and have each one of them remind me of someone I know or have known or have met or have heard about.
I bought the book when it was first published but have never read it until now. I thought I should given that the mini-series of the book will be one of the summer offerings on one of the major networks.
