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Under the Dome, by Stephen King

20 reviews

whatsjessreading's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Rape, Alcohol, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Child death, and Gun violence

lantheaume's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I really enjoyed reading this book. King's character development, espcially through dialog, shines here.
It's a page turner for 1,000 pages - which is impressive.
Beware - it's a heavy book! :-)

Not a plot spoiler below, but wanted to make sure folks opted in to see it by choice.

Spoiler

book is a great read but the ending was a let down for me after 1,000 pages. I'd give it a 4 to 4.5 for the first 900 pages and a 3 for the last 100. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Drug use, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Drug abuse, Rape, Violence, Gore, Murder, and Addiction

Moderate: Alcoholism and Child death

This is about how messed up things can get. Think lord of the flies. Extremely well done but there's a lot of trigger warnings in this book,

allison1316's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Gore, Drug use, Sexual violence, Animal death, Self harm, Police brutality, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Death, Rape, Murder, Car accident, Blood, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

alsoannabanana's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Child death, Car accident, Bullying, Animal death, Death of parent, Addiction, Violence, Murder, Medical content, Drug use, Torture, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Gun violence, Body horror, Blood, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Physical abuse, Gore, Death, and Alcoholism

suzylit's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Torture, Sexism, Animal death, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Death of parent, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Excrement, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Medical trauma, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

breeski's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

If this were short it would be fine. I got a few hundred pages in and got tired of how much more I needed to go. I'm not a fan of how sexualized the female characters are. The amount of sexual assault and rape there is, is overkill. I get it is to really assert how horrible people are but I think it was overdone. The ending felt rushed and the reason for the dome was weird and disappointing.
Character development and setting the scene was well done.
I would not recommend this book since it's so unnecessarily long as well as my other thoughts mentioned above. I would recommend an audiobook version over a physical copy if you did want to read it.
I don't regret reading it but i wouldn't go through the effort of reading it again. I think it's over hyped.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual violence, Murder, Sexual assault, and Suicide

Moderate: Car accident and Drug use

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

stephaniekrmr's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Oh wow, where should I start. 

Stephen King is one of my most favorite authors since I’m 14 and under the dome made me remember why. The way he tells stories, describes his characters and his choice of words is truly unique. I loved the humor and the portray of the madness of men and I think I rarely came across that well-written villains. The plot was intriguing, sometimes shocking and partly so realistic, that I started praying we never end up under a dome in real life.

This book is an intimidating and freaking heavy brick. It sat on my shelf for seven years, I tried to get through it four times and never made it past page 200 and honestly I never thought I‘d ever finish it. 

Don’t ask what made me pick it up and give it another try - I don’t know, I‘m a mood reader and sometimes feel just drawn to books. I set myself daily page goals around 170 pages per day this time to keep myself motivated, but often ended up reading way more than that. Because even if it’s that big, it doesn’t feel like it. What makes this book huge is the insane number of characters and subplots - I‘m a tad conflicted if all of them were really necessary. Especially because the "big reveal" and finale was in contrast too short and shallow in my opinion. The story is built up over that many pages and we are left with .. that? Really? Apart from if the conclusion made sense or is a good one, I‘d at least have liked more details and screentime.

Nevertheless it was a very exciting and thrilling page-turner. For sure no comfort read, but something to get lost in. 

Give me two last seconds to rant about the tv adaption - that thing should not exist. It’s a shame.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Drug abuse, Murder, Vomit, Sexual assault, Drug use, Rape, and War

sugus_al_limone's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Murder, Sexism, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Child death, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Animal death

bookswithbets's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Physical abuse, and Death

Moderate: Gun violence, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Misogyny

ayedrianreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Gun violence, Drug use, and Addiction