Also glad at least one dog survived this thing, I hate how authors always have to kill off the dogs.
The online classroom of UH 300-009, Andy Duncan's spring seminar in the Honors College of the University of Alabama.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Dome
Wow, I actually got this finished on time, I wasn't sure I would. I got through most of it over the weekend just because I never really found a good point I wanted to stop at. I did like the book, but felt there was just a bit too much death. I lost count of how many characters were introduced, and then promptly killed less than ten pages later. King would introduce a character, tell you just enough about them for you to like them just a bit, and then BAM, they're dead. And then of course there's how everything went in the final chapter. I read it a couple days ago, but I still haven't been able to really decide whether I think that it's a good ending or whether all that destruction was unnecessary.
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I am definitely of the opinion that the fireball was absolutely necessary. The meth lab always felt like Chekov's gun to me. Given the presence of a large volatile drug factory in a town that has no capacity for the consumption of said drugs, the only other purpose is as in improvised explosive plot device.
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