So I miraculously finished Under the Dome on Saturday, and with time to spare. I'm completely torn on how I feel about the book. And I shall explain...
The beginning was rough for me. Bailey and Jordan, though, didn't struggle with it like I did. So maybe it's just me. But I felt like the way King presented all the little stories at the beginning made them appear to be irrelevant to the entirety of the story. I kept thinking "I don't care about what happened to all these unimportant characters, let's get on with figuring out why the dome is there and how to get rid of it". Of course I should have known King had a method to his madness. If he didn't, he couldn't have gotten all those movie deals. Of course all the little stories became important throughout the book. Even so, the first 300 pages took me 2 weeks to read and I plowed through the last 700 in one week.
So the middle got me hooked. I was totally wrapped up in it and did not want to put it down. I was thankful for that, since this was the longest book I've ever read (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix comes in second at about 870 pages-ish) I fell in love with the characters, even Rennie who was a complete douchebag. Pardon my French. I really cared about what was happening to Barbie and his "Friends". So I quickly got the bitter taste of the beginning out of my mouth, especially when everything started to come together.
Now I'm not going to give away the end because I know this is one you all will be reading until 3 pm Wednesday, but I was not happy with it. I was expecting a big surprise at the end, but I really saw it coming. For those of you that were unfortunate enough to read River of Gods, it was a "It's a boltzman!" ending. Plus there wasn't much closure. It just kinda ended and you have no idea what happened to the survivors.
I think it was a really well written book, but I'm not as pleased as I'd like to be. Maybe our discussion Wednesday will pull me to support it a little more.
2 comments:
I was hooked through the beginning. I was hooked through the middle. I was NOT hooked those last 100 pages. I suppose it was for the same reason you had issues with the ending: I knew what was coming. I just felt like he was dragging it out for no reason too. After 1000 pages of fast paced plot the ending just felt like I was walking through mud. I was also really invested in the characters (after 1000 pages, it's hard not to be) and I was really hoping to see what happened to them afterwards. But those small disappointments are totally fine with me because overall this book was AWEsome!
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