Last Sentence Explained: The book ends with the Dome being lifted.
Last Sentence: Pity was not love, Barbie reflected… but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction. How can I possibly fault a book which taught me ‘Crack Snackin’ ‘Cock Gobblin’ and Horripilation ? I can’t and I won’t, a thoroughly enjoyable read. There’s really no need to summarise the plot as the title does that for me. I can imagine this making a great TV series one day. It had me gripped form the get-go and just didn’t let up. King is, when all’s said and done, a great storyteller and that’s just what this is. Years ago I read a lot of Stephen King but I haven’t read anything of his in a loooong time. It’s running out.First Sentence: From two thousand feet, where Claudette Sanders was taking a flying lesson, the town of Chester’s Mill gleamed in the morning light like something freshly made and just set down. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing-even murder-to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when-or if-it will go away.ĭale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens-town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Don’t miss the “harrowing” ( The Washington Post) #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from master storyteller Stephen King that inspired the hit television series, following the apocalyptic scenario of a town cut off from the rest of the world.
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