Comments | gwendally: Two book reviews: One a best seller, one not, both on the same topic

gwendally

Two book reviews: One a best seller, one not, both on the same topic

Aug 11, 2010 12:48

One beautiful autumn day an impervious dome settled over a small Maine town. No one could get in, and no one could get out. Stephen King's "Under the Dome" ( is a horror story )

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solar_diablo August 11 2010, 17:17:52 UTC

King's book was total porn for you, wasn't it? :P

I admit though, I'm already checking the library to see if they have a copy available for check out.

solar_diablo August 11 2010, 17:19:22 UTC

3 copies, all of them checked out. Crap!

gwendally August 11 2010, 19:51:46 UTC

Well, I *did* seize on issues I harp on. It was a short review of a 1000 page book with 50 characters. You could find a completely different way to hang a four paragraph review!

sandramort August 12 2010, 14:28:44 UTC

Audible has King's book for only 1 credit. At 34 hours listening time, it's a real bargain!!! Unless you're prone to nightmares, in which case it might be a bad idea. Tempted... but not sure.

machiavelli_f August 11 2010, 17:37:28 UTC

I read under the dome, and it was an interesting read.

I have to say, though - It kind of struck me that the archetypes are so... arche-typical?

The bad guys are so thoroughly bad, and although they delude themselves into thinking they are doing the right thing, they are just uniformly bad, and they do a lot of very bad things just to show how bad they are.

The good guys, on the other hand, are so thoroughly good that it makes them almost saccharine. Go outside "the rules"? Wouldn't dream of it! No, no, we have to bring this guy down the HONEST way.

gwendally August 11 2010, 19:53:00 UTC

I don't think anyone reads Stephen King and thinks "great literature!". :-)

But a great beach read. The next book I've got started on is a book on political philosophy. I gotta go back and forth a bit.

ellisbell August 11 2010, 21:41:35 UTC

Can't say I have read much of his fiction, but The Shining is one of the best books I've ever read. Scared the shit out of me.

solar_diablo August 12 2010, 01:41:14 UTC

I remember reading The Shining right after my daughter was born and I was taking a leave of absence from work to be with her. At one point I had to put the book down, leave the kid napping in her crib, and step out onto the sunlit balcony to shake the heebie-jeebies. It's the only King book I've read that actually scared me, but DAMN did it do it well.

ellisbell August 11 2010, 21:40:52 UTC

Real people are the scariest monsters there are.