These are the previous works that came to mind when reading Under the Dome:
The Simpsons Movie (everyone says this)
Peyton Place (much like Salem's Lot, small town intrigue plays a huge role)
Jack Reacher novels (Not only does Reacher play an offscreen role but Barbie the government troubleshooter is very much in his mold although much less action-oriented)
That original Star Trek episode with Clint Howard as the little boy alien toying with the Enterprise crew (The Leatherhead kids)
The Dukes of Hazzard (Rennie gives off a definite Boss Hogg vibe)
Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" (Rather heavy handed global warming allegory going on.)
The Day After (Apocalypse hits smalltown USA.
and finally, Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who ("We have little lives, too" compared with "A person's a person, no matter how small")
I read the whole thing between Thursday and Tuesday. It moved right along, but the whole OTT Leftist screed vibe kind of turned me off. I really had to laugh when Burpee's remembered moment of greatest shame turned out to be him drunkenly mocking a weeping Hillary Clinton while watching her on TV.
I'd say the most interesting character was a fairly minor one - I really liked Sammy Bushey. King took a pretty unlikeable archetype, a drug addled "town pump" and made her fully developed and sympathetic and quite noble in a very small amount of allotted narrative with very little backstory. I don't think too many people with a striking dichotomy of character like that actually exist in reality, but he did a good job imagining her.
The Simpsons Movie (everyone says this)
Peyton Place (much like Salem's Lot, small town intrigue plays a huge role)
Jack Reacher novels (Not only does Reacher play an offscreen role but Barbie the government troubleshooter is very much in his mold although much less action-oriented)
That original Star Trek episode with Clint Howard as the little boy alien toying with the Enterprise crew (The Leatherhead kids)
The Dukes of Hazzard (Rennie gives off a definite Boss Hogg vibe)
Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" (Rather heavy handed global warming allegory going on.)
The Day After (Apocalypse hits smalltown USA.
and finally, Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who ("We have little lives, too" compared with "A person's a person, no matter how small")
I read the whole thing between Thursday and Tuesday. It moved right along, but the whole OTT Leftist screed vibe kind of turned me off. I really had to laugh when Burpee's remembered moment of greatest shame turned out to be him drunkenly mocking a weeping Hillary Clinton while watching her on TV.
I'd say the most interesting character was a fairly minor one - I really liked Sammy Bushey. King took a pretty unlikeable archetype, a drug addled "town pump" and made her fully developed and sympathetic and quite noble in a very small amount of allotted narrative with very little backstory. I don't think too many people with a striking dichotomy of character like that actually exist in reality, but he did a good job imagining her.