If you know me much at all then you know I'm a great fan of writer Stephen King. Even though he's one of my favorite authors I'm the first to admit that his last few novels haven't been as good as I'd come to expect. I figured his best works were behind him, and I was OK with that because even his sub-par stuff still makes a good read.
Now I'm changing my tune because I've just finished reading his latest tome, UNDER THE DOME.
UNDER THE DOME is classic King. It's set in a small town with a rich population of characters, and like all of King's best work some of the central characters are children. I've said for years that Stephen King puts a voice to children and young people better than any scribe in the game and this book proves that. It also proves that King is a small town guy at heart, and gets what goes on in real America. This time the town is Chester's Mill, Maine, and it has all the sorts of folks you find in real small towns: the town drunk, bullies, crooked politicians, and people you can identify with.
Like any good King book this one is long and involved. Covering a short span of time in Chester's Mill the book still manages to encompass almost 1,100 pages, but you'd actually wish for a couple of hundred more. It's really that good.
I still consider King's 'five star' novels to be THE STAND, IT, and the GUNSLINGER series, but I'm going to have to expand that roll by one. UNDER THE DOME is not only King's best book in recent memory, it's probably one of the five best he's ever written.
Read this book! You won't be disappointed.
Now I'm changing my tune because I've just finished reading his latest tome, UNDER THE DOME.
UNDER THE DOME is classic King. It's set in a small town with a rich population of characters, and like all of King's best work some of the central characters are children. I've said for years that Stephen King puts a voice to children and young people better than any scribe in the game and this book proves that. It also proves that King is a small town guy at heart, and gets what goes on in real America. This time the town is Chester's Mill, Maine, and it has all the sorts of folks you find in real small towns: the town drunk, bullies, crooked politicians, and people you can identify with.
Like any good King book this one is long and involved. Covering a short span of time in Chester's Mill the book still manages to encompass almost 1,100 pages, but you'd actually wish for a couple of hundred more. It's really that good.
I still consider King's 'five star' novels to be THE STAND, IT, and the GUNSLINGER series, but I'm going to have to expand that roll by one. UNDER THE DOME is not only King's best book in recent memory, it's probably one of the five best he's ever written.
Read this book! You won't be disappointed.
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