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I used to be an avid Stephen King reader, devouring everything that he wrote, and using my holiday bookstore gift certificates to buy whatever book he inevitably published that year.  Then I kind of grew out of it a bit, and pretty much stopped reading his books somewhere around college. Not intentionally. I just found…other things to read that seemed more important.

But now that I’m reading an average of a book a week, I decided to pick up his latest, since the price on the e-book finally dropped to something reasonable. And it was great. Disturbing, harrowing, a little creepy (all in good ways). While the imposition of the dome was external/alien, the real evil was manifested within. I’m not sure I buy the idea that it could devolve quite so quickly (less than a week), but as a study of how petty, local, power-hungry (and religiously fervent) despots become truly obsessed with their own power, it was really fascinating.

All in all, I’m glad I picked it up. Now I just have to convince myself to go back and finish the Dark Tower series, which I abandoned halfway through with the thought that he was never going to finish writing the darn thing. But apparently Mr. King has finished it, so I’m adding it to my wish list.

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