Under the Dome: Made for CBS and Book Enthusiasts Alike

The last book I read was Under the Dome by Stephen King. I absolutelty loved it, from front to back cover. With its diversity of characters, some good and some evil, plot twists galore and some moments that will truly shock the reader. Moments like when the mentally twisted Junior breaks into high school sweetheart Angie's house and kills her, presumably to make up for revenge. This book had so many accolades that it made the small screen on CBS, with its TV show of the same name. From my perspective, the goal of this novel is to reach out to the reader and teach him/her a lesson as to how society reacts to a situation when they are confined in one specific space. The first few events seem a bit fishy but then, as Ron Burgundy would put it, things would escalate quickly. It all makes sense when our main character, Dale "Barbie" Barbara, an army veteran, witnesses a plane explode out of nowhere, when it really has struck the invisible dome that has enclosed the small Maine town of Chester's Mill. Throughout the book, the insanity increases, and so does the city's realization that they are, well, UNDER THE DOME. The events that take place in this book are what King believes will happen when supernatural disaster like being confined in a forcefield, and he'd be right. There's just a couple problems; 1. This book, like many other Stephen King novels (excluding The Shining and Misery, both of which I have read) takes place in Maine. It would be much more chaotic and much more interesting if this sort of thing would happen in New York City. 2. Something like this wuld never happen, so it's not a guide to the apocalypse, it's just there to entertain you, and that's what I like about this book. So if you're one of those ridiculous preppers who take suspense novels as advisories for the end of the world, then Under the Dome isn't for you. And neither is War of the Worlds. If you're prepping for the apocalypse, how about giving books on astronomy a try.