In 100 years, King will, I guarantee, be in the canon. King, in many ways, is the Dickens of our day: a populist writer appealing to the sensibilities of the masses while also capturing the richness of the world of his time. And what do those folks have in common? They're all, first and foremost, storytellers: That's what keeps people reading.
The list is constantly under negotiation, but it's generally agreed that Shakespeare, Austen and any number of Brontës and Dickenses all have a place within that canon. Consider, though, what we think of as our canon today. This book will thrill every reader who's ever loved a novel by King.All of which would mean absolutely nothing were he not, more significantly, the finest storyteller at work today, a trait often overlooked by the aforementioned TALU. With some of the most spectacularly sinister characters King has ever imagined and a driving plot, Under the Dome is Stephen King at his epic best. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing-even murder-to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry.
Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens-town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, a selectwoman, and three brave kids. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when-or if-it will go away. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mills, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Celebrated storyteller Stephen King returns to his roots in this tour de force featuring more than 100 characters-some heroic, some diabolical-and a supernatural element as baffling and chilling as any he's ever conjured.
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