Under the Dome
A Novel
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Under the Dome
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Narrado por:
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Raul Esparza
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De:
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Stephen King
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when - or if - it will go away.
Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens - town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing - even murder - to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out.
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A reasonable effort. Certainly listenable. Just make sure you have a number of "grains of salt" to help you get through it.
Sure, Steve...
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I have been missing Frank Muller, but Raul Esparza was a great choice for a narrator. No, not just a narrator, an actor. Like Frank Muller, Raul Esparza, masterfully creates the characters from Stephen King's descriptions and rivets the listener's attention. One easily hears the shift from character to character in his dialogues.
I will be looking for more books narrated by Raul Esparza.
Excellent!
Outstanding book, outstanding narrator
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A painfully tedious read
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Not my favorite
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For me the story was a bit of a miss. I really got into how much I disliked some of the characters and liked some of the others. What I didn't like was the wrap up. No pretty bow, just done.
Meh
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Is there anything you would change about this book?
i finished listening to IT and decided to listen to Under the Dome. i finished listening to it because i want to read all of Kings books. the Narrator sucked horribly. i might have been spoiled from IT but come on, he didnt sound like he wanted to read it. he cant throw his voice to do different characters. Climaxes are not so because of the monotone of the narrator.How could the performance have been better?
get a better Narrator!Do you think Under the Dome needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
noNot King
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ignore the negativity
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More than a book
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Why is my rating 5 stars then? The narrator. This is the first book I've listened to by Raul Esparza but he's easily one of the best narrators I've ever listened to - he manages to do all kinds of very distinct voices and accents that make the characters (and there are a lot) instantly identifiable. In addition, some of the "voices" he does are perfect (at least for me) for the charcters - Big Jim is absolutely perfect; Junior and Andy Sanders similarly. Great, great stuff.
Great audio book
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Let say that this was an amazing book! I have never read or listened to a Stephen King book previously, and perhaps that is partially why I found this book extremely disappointing at the end.
Everything was chugging along great until the book took a totally awkward and very juvenile tact towards extreme alien-style sci-fi. Obviously the Dome itself is a bit sci-fi, but I was holding out hope for a more logical explanation of "secret government conspiracy" or "the dome really wasn't there all along" or something else, maybe even something less concrete, and ending where it is never fully explained. But the whole "oh, it was aliens" part kind of pissed me off. That's a really easy way to wrap up the book, almost too easy.
And my biggest complaint is the total lack of resolution between Barby and Big Jim!! Just as the final climax was coming, the book totally cops out with an Armageddon sequence, and pretty much crawls to a halt after the bomb goes off.
It's a good book, and specifically in the are of length. I always love a really, really long book with a lot going on. This fit the bill. Humanoid aliens especially really turn me off. Total snorfest in my opinion. But I am sure other readers have come to expect that from Stephen King, so I can't fault him for doing what he does best.
Great book, until the final plot is revealed
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