So, I have to say that upon reading the end of Under The Dome I had a tune nagging at the back of my head, and it wasn't until I reread the super mushy last sentence that BAM it hit me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea4uc_1VGSE
Oh yes, please watch this and tell me that it is not the ending of Under the Dome: the rain stops (dome lifts) Simba nudges his sexy lil Nala (Julia), Cox nudges him forward and was his little adviser the whole time (Rafiki) and roars into the newly restored world. Yes, the music resonated on the back of my mind while reading the entire ending. Too perfect!
On another note, I would say that I expected King to spring for the "and then Barbie shuddered his last breath" (only in a few sections before this, pointing out that it would be the last something or another he ever did...) I really did expect them all to die and then the dome lifts. But hey, guess ol' Kingy is goin softy on us after 1000 pages.
I would say I liked the book, excluding the excessive foreshadowing. As aforementioned, I got awfully tired of reading 'it would be the last time/thing/etc he she ever did/said/etc' I thought it was better when people just surprised you and died or something (the 'later he would regret it' got pretty old too). Anybody else get this vibe? I think all the foreshadowing could have been left out for a much better read.
Other than that, it really didn't feel like an overwhelming read.
LION KING RULES! (and Barbie shall forever be Simba to me now).
3 comments:
I agree with you 100%. Especially on the excessive foreshadowing. And you were right. I LOVE this post. It's so appropriate haha. Well done :)
Hahahaha. Yes, I agree with both of you about the "excessive foreshadowing"--it was like it was trying to make things more foreboding than they already were. And it was a bit annoying, because if he was going for fear/shock/whatever he should've just let people die in a more surprising way.
I am not completely sure that I agree with the Lion King overlap.
The foreshadowing of Under the Dome was more than a little thick, though not as thick as the classic Oedipus Rex.
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