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Under the Dome by Stephen King

Once again beloved author Stephen King takes us on a trip into our worst nightmares.
How would you react if you suddenly found yourself and your whole town cut off from the rest of the world.  Virtually sealed inside an impenetrable glass dome that stretches from boarder to border.   There is no way out, no way in. And while you coped with this unfathomable nightmare, what would you do when those who have been elected to protect you, to run things calmly in the event of disasters went off the deep end?

Author King has deftly found what fears we keep hidden and played them like a well tuned violin. The police have become “brown shirts”, taking to the streets and allowed to run rampant and lawless on their fellow man.   Authority in the way of this communities Selectmen, has been thrown to the wind as one of them takes this disaster and tries to use and twist it to his own benefit.   Murder, rape, bodily assault, necrophilia, drugs, rioting-they are all there.   All made even worse by the naiveté of this seemingly quaint little town in Maine. A town that holds many, many secrets.  

And the big question is, are all the secrets coming back to haunt the Godless? Is this some kind of sick government experiment?  Is this dome Gods retribution on the sinners?  Or does it go even higher than that? And ask yourself this, what can possibly be higher on the food chain than God?

In my opinion, this is one of Mr. Kings finest books since the epic novel “The Stand“..  The Dome is filled with so many characters and events that seem to have no rhyme or reason that you may feel, as I did, that he could never write his way out of this mess.  But he does and with a very satisfying ending twist.  One that really makes you sit there and  think.  Believe me if you read this book, you will never ever look at an ant hill or ants in the same way as you did yesterday!