Book Review: Under the Dome by Stephen King

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🗓️ 19 December 2009

⏱️ 19 minutes

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I thought King was retiring years ago.... Books & Nachos is now part of Now Playing Podcast. Before our book reviews were branded as Now Playing Podcast Book Reviews, they were released under a separate show called Books & Nachos. That podcast focused on book discussions, most of which tied directly into films we were covering on Now Playing. We’ve now merged those episodes into the main Now Playing Podcast feed for easier access and a complete archive. But these older episodes still have the original Books & Nachos intro and credits on those older recordings. Stephen King's latest work, Under the Dome, is his third-longest novel to date, bested in page count only by his classic works The Stand and It. Does this new novel, about a small Maine town cut off from the rest of the world by an unseen force, meet the standards of those books? Listen to find out in this totally spoiler-free review! (Note: There is a spoiler-ish conversation AFTER the review regarding one of the book's larger plot twists, but you will have plenty of warning so you can listen to the review and still remain totally spoiler-free.) {Book Review} {Stephen King Series}

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0:00.0	This is Books and Notchos, a podcast for those of us who find excitement in the pages of a good book.
0:12.5	Fiction and nonfiction, graphic novels, and more.
0:15.5	We are here to help you find something great to read.
0:24.4	Hello. something great to read. Hello and welcome back to Books and Nachos.
0:27.1	I'm Arnie, your host for this episode.
0:29.0	And I'm sorry it's been a while since the last Books and Nachos episode, but I promise I have a
0:33.9	really good reason for that.
0:35.5	This week, I'm reviewing Stephen King's Under the Dome, and this book comes in just shy of 1100 pages, and I don't mind admitting that that's about four times the length of the average novel I read. Now, this review is going to be spoiler-free, so I'm not going to be talking about the plot at all. I'm going to be talking just about
0:55.5	the book, the structure, and comparing it to some of Stephen King's older works, and there may be
0:59.8	spoilers for some of Stephen King's other works. However, at the very end of the podcast, there will be a
1:05.5	spoiler, and you will be given plenty of warning before that happens. First, full disclosure,
1:10.2	I'm a Stephen King
1:11.4	fan from way back when. I remember being in middle school. And when I was in late elementary
1:18.1	school, sixth grade, I remember seeing all of my friends start reading Lord of the Rings.
1:24.3	And it was funny. It was like there was only one copy of Lord of the Rings, and it just went from person to person because it was spreading like a virus throughout the class.
1:32.7	But then it changed in seventh grade, and suddenly it became Stephen King. And I was introduced to
1:37.8	Stephen King by Stewart, who is my co-host on the podcast Now Playing at NowPlayingpodcast.com,
1:43.7	where you can hear us review movies
1:45.2	like Avatar and horror movies, such as Friday the 13th and coming in 2010 Nightmare on Elm Street.
1:51.7	I got into Stephen King around the time of it, but the book that was popping up throughout my class
1:56.7	was skeleton crew, which had some of Stephen King's best short stories in it.
2:01.8	At that point, I went back and read a lot of Stephen King's back catalog and kept up with
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