The best time to write a book review blog is hours after finishing reading the book. I started reading Under the Dome by Stephen King a few weeks back and the Eid holidays gave the perfect time to finish it off in style. The book reaffirms my adulation of an author whose books are generally classified as ‘unputdownable’. I remember the days spend at Kozhikode reading his books which I had borrowed from the Central Library. I was the 64th member in the library and I finished all the books in the Stephen King collection that was kept in the library. This summer vacation saw me and my partner glued to the story of The Green Mile another classic film made from the story of Stephen King. The story is set in the penitentiary like the other classic The Shawshank’s Redemption. The Green Mile re-established the fact that it was a better story told From the point of view of a wrongly implicated man. In the Under the Dome Stephen King tells the story of a dome that is over a small town and how the people live and die inside the dome. The dome is symbolic and the story is similar to William Golding's - The Lord of the flies and King's own novel turned movie- The Mist. In William Golding's world the children are left to the care of mother nature, here the adults are on their own. The dome creates 'sides' in the otherwise peaceful town. Skeletons and dead bodies start falling from the cupboards and attics. There is total chaos and the reason behind this is a self proclaimed God man. Here the overlapping with The Mist is quite evident.
The novel is really lengthy and it contains the whole town as a character. Too many names, too many activities. Some of the scenes are really gory and Stephen King is at his best. Somehow I was not quite sure about the verbal description in certain scenes.
