Under the Dome
- 1,074
- Pages
- about 20 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Under the Dome” is less about the barrier than about what a small town does to itself once nobody can leave. King is at his best moving among its many ordinary people under pressure. At over a thousand pages it is a commitment: some readers feel it could be much shorter, find the villains stereotyped and count threads left dangling at the end. Best for those who enjoy King’s big ensemble novels.
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About the book
Under the Dome is a 2009 science fiction novel by American author Stephen King. It is the 58th book published by King, and it is his 48th novel. The novel focuses on a small Maine town, and tells an intricate, multi-character, alternating perspective story of how the town's inhabitants contend with the calamity of being suddenly cut off from the outside world by an impassable, invisible glass dome-like barrier that seemingly falls out of the sky, transforming the community into a domed city.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 780 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 84% of the weight and the score stays at 7.6 — the Science fiction average of 7.8 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.6 | 59 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 721 | 92% |
Frequently asked
How long is Under the Dome?
It has 1,074 pages — longer than 99% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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