Under the Dome *SPOILERS*

[jchanic]

Big Jim has as much relation to Christianity as the Al-Quida terrorists have to Islam.

John

[Bryan James]

Some of the "I'm updating this story for the Now" bits are kinda (sometimes lotsa) cheese-tinted.

~BJS

[JohnK]

Took me 4 days to read and am I bleary eyed. Once again Stephen King keeps me up late into the wee hours. Damn you Stephen King you've done it again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. It almost collapsed my book shelf when I placed it there.

[mojomofo]

My all time favorite thing about stories with large casts is that you can go back a bit later on a re-read and it is just as enjoyable because there is so much going on that part of me is just focused on keeping everyone straight.

Or maybe that is just me...

[PatInTheHat]

I think Rennie was an awesome antagonist, and I was a not a bit put off by the extremes in his character. It is not all that unbelievable for someone, especially in politics, to be twisted in so many ways. And it seems to me that King was likening him more to the Cheney's of the world than to Christianity in general. (At one point one of the characters is donning a Cheney mask!)

Exactamundo!!!

I have never had a fictional character I've loathed or despised more than Big Dick Chen...uhh, Big Jim Rennie....and only one in my current reality..wanna guess who?
But me thinks there may have been more than a likening of the two, the parallels in attitudes & being control freaks with power is frightning in the accuracy.

My only complaint would be, that ending was waaayyy too easy on him...I like my bullies getting their azzzes handed to them all proper like, and in direct proportion to the steam coming out of my punkin' head over their personal moral righteousness and greed driven, fear whoring ideological antics.
(and yes, these people do in fact exist in the right here and the right now, all flesh & blood like, from small rural communities, all the way to "C" Street in D.C....this book couldn't have been more timely!)
Slooowwwww roasted like a big fat beef (oh yes, with mashed please) I wish I wish he was, or shoved into a sour grape cobbler, and then fed to rodents I probably would have enjoyed, except well, I much more enjoy the company of rodents!
And even those infested with flea bearing plague, deserve better than that for a last meal is what I'm thinkin'.

Oh my word what an exquisitely painful emotional ride that ends justify his means, chronically cruel creep rat bastid gave me...that was a most excellent job is what I'm sayin'!
There were times that sumbitch made me want to chuck the whole damn thing across the room, but I was afraid of giving myself a hernia.
(and 'ol Big Di...uhh, I mean Jim, woulda just loved nothin' better you just bet he would..uh uh, no way he was gettin' any satisfaction from me..just ain't how we cowboy it up here in The Mighty BlueGrass)

[JohnDalglish]

Big Jim has as much relation to Christianity as the Al-Quida terrorists have to Islam.

John

Hi

Exactly.

p 562 UK -
'I saw your kind again and again in Iraq. They wear turbans instead of ties, but otherwise they're just the same. Right down to the blather about God.'

Long days and pleasant nights

[Jay P Lang]

Question
When Big Jim sent people out to check for radiation with the GC, did I miss something or did they never explore that? I don't remember anyone finding the radiation area. I remember him sending someone out, but nothing about it afterward. I just think that would have played a bigger part, so I must have missed it.

[Jay P Lang]

Also, for some reason I kept picturing Doyle Brunson as Big Jim. Though I pictured him younger, but still just like Doyle Brunson and I can't say why. Especially his speach pattern I guess.

And Barbie as the lead character in Jerihco. There was a guy I pictured as Randolph too, kind of like the guy who plays the drunk cop in True Blood. I didn't really get a clear picture of other characters. One of the ******* cops came out like Mario Lopez for some reason, and Junior came out as the guy who plays Lex on Smallvill, but with hair of course.. Dunno, just how it came out to me I guess.

[RJ Sevin]

I finished it a few days ago, and quite literally can't decide how I feel about it. The climax may be one of the most harrowing things King has ever written, and it left me a little frazzled.

I'm not sure I'm entirely pleased with the explanation behind the Dome, though I do appreciate that the heart of the book's theme lies in this explanation -- the pity of the individual vs. the cruelty of the mob.

I'm thoroughly dissatisfied with Big Jim's fate, however. It's an intensely allegorical book (easily King's MOST allegorical book), and I understand that Chester's Mill's Little Hitler had to die in his bunker, I just wish it hadn't been in such an EC Comics/Creepshow fashion.

[bookworm101]

I loved it.... One of my top three favorites at this point....I sunk my teeth into Sunday afternoon after meeting SK that previous Friday, and did not come up for air ( no pun intended ) till Tuesday when I finished it. I could NOT put it down. Funny note. When someone would call for me my husband would say Teresa can't come to the phone right now she currently Under The Dome. LOL My daughter knew exactly what was going on, my Mama on the other hand was confused. LOL. What a ride.