Under the Dome
Apr. 6th, 2010 02:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserI generally like Stephen King books. No, they're not the best books ever written, but they're usually good stories and entertaining.
Under the Dome... I have no idea how to describe it. The characters were godawful. Cardboard cutouts. Black and white. Every single bad guy was nothing but BAD BAD BAD, no good at all. Every single good guy was 100% perfect, never did a single thing wrong in their entire life. None of the characters were realistic at all.
The story itself was SO heavy-handed. I'm no fan of organized religion, but his "religion = BAD" message was too much for even me.
I had serious issues with the plot itself, too.
Aliens. Child-aliens. Ant farms. Seriously? Really? And just asking to be let go worked? Why didn't they ask to begin with then? (Edit: I totally forgot about the dog hearing and obeying dead people. In a totally not-supernatural book. We're supposed to accept that all dogs can hear dead people all the time, as frequently as they can smell things humans can't.)
Arg. What makes this book hard to describe is that, even with all those major, major issues, I couldn't stop reading it. 1,100 pages and I got done in four days (with working full time job and most of my free time going to WoW -- luckily two of those days were weekend days). I can't explain it. There was so much bad about it, but the story kept pulling me along. Even with as over-the-top as the bad guys were, I always wanted to see what happened next.
Under the Dome... I have no idea how to describe it. The characters were godawful. Cardboard cutouts. Black and white. Every single bad guy was nothing but BAD BAD BAD, no good at all. Every single good guy was 100% perfect, never did a single thing wrong in their entire life. None of the characters were realistic at all.
The story itself was SO heavy-handed. I'm no fan of organized religion, but his "religion = BAD" message was too much for even me.
I had serious issues with the plot itself, too.
Aliens. Child-aliens. Ant farms. Seriously? Really? And just asking to be let go worked? Why didn't they ask to begin with then? (Edit: I totally forgot about the dog hearing and obeying dead people. In a totally not-supernatural book. We're supposed to accept that all dogs can hear dead people all the time, as frequently as they can smell things humans can't.)
Arg. What makes this book hard to describe is that, even with all those major, major issues, I couldn't stop reading it. 1,100 pages and I got done in four days (with working full time job and most of my free time going to WoW -- luckily two of those days were weekend days). I can't explain it. There was so much bad about it, but the story kept pulling me along. Even with as over-the-top as the bad guys were, I always wanted to see what happened next.
