Under The Dome by Stephen King

Book Description
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. 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. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away.

Dale 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. 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. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out.

My thoughts
Stephen King has taken an ambitious undertaking in writing “Under the Dome” a 1000+ plus page novel where the town of Chester’s Mill, Maine is encased by a invisible dome. Trapped inside this prison, we learn about he inhabitants and what human nature is like when forced in a situation like this. But this is no “The Stand” and although I really go into in the beginning, it started to drag for me and I didn’t care about reading about some of the characters. And the ending, well, that was just unsatisfying. Some people may get more out if it than I, so be it. I was hoping for more.