Stephen King "Dome' Field Test #1 - The Drop
I just did a field test of the new King novel.
At random, I pulled a typically sized book from a library shelf. Turns out it was Homer's The Odyssey (the McCrorie translation), at 416 pages...a very typical hardcover in every way.
I dropped The Odyssey onto our fake-mica counter and it made the sound a novel makes when tossed onto a countertop. It is the solid "clump" that makes people fall in love with books and libraries and literacy.
By contrast, the sound of "Under the Dome" by King is the sound of a body falling from a great height, a dead wieght, surely a suicide.
At random, I pulled a typically sized book from a library shelf. Turns out it was Homer's The Odyssey (the McCrorie translation), at 416 pages...a very typical hardcover in every way.
I dropped The Odyssey onto our fake-mica counter and it made the sound a novel makes when tossed onto a countertop. It is the solid "clump" that makes people fall in love with books and libraries and literacy.
By contrast, the sound of "Under the Dome" by King is the sound of a body falling from a great height, a dead wieght, surely a suicide.