Quick question

[briarwood]

Has anyone read Stephen King's Under the Dome?

I'm about halfway through the audiobook and it's so very slow I'm ready to give up. Is it worth continuing? If I keep listening, am I going to find out where the Dome came from? That's more or less all I care about at this point as all but one of the characters I found sympathetic are dead.

Comments

[geonncannon.livejournal.com]

That's my opinion, too. I enjoyed the book throughout, but I can see why you might not. If you're not enjoying it by the halfway point, then I would suggest that's far enough for you and you can find someone to spoil you about where the dome came from. :)

And the SOB really had a good time murdering people in this one. :/

[briarwood]

Usually, I enjoy King's work. But this one is just too unrelentingly depressive, and the only characters I can identify with are either dead or looking very much like redshirts.

As cynical as I am (and I really, really am) I just don't believe that people, en masse are as bad as this novel paints them.

But I won't cheat! As long as the damn dome will be explained, I'll slog it out.