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1074 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2009
“If I'm going to spend a year writing a single draft of a book, it should be about something.” - from a Barnes & Noble interviewWhich of course begs a question about the value of spending, say half a year. What is the duration of labor at which one must cross over from pure entertainment to something?
I've always been a political novelist, and those things have always interested me. Firestarter is a political novel. The Dead Zone is a political novel. There's that scene in The Dead Zone where Johnny Smith sees Greg Stillson in the future starting a nuclear war. Around my house we kinda laugh when Sarah Palin comes on TV, and we say, "That's Greg Stillson as a woman." - from an interview in Salon)More scary than funny to me. Well, maybe Dome is not so out of the way for King.
“I started it in 1976, got about 75 pages into it — and then I saw what the scope of the thing was going to be, how many technological issues it raised, and I buckled. I’m not a sci-fi writer; I don’t know a lot about technology, so I thought I’d try again, set it in an apartment building, and then I wouldn’t have to deal with what the weather would be like under a dome. But I didn’t like any of the characters, so I put it away.” - from an interview in Pop MattersHe revisited the story in the 1980s. Renamed “The Cannibals” it still had to do with people isolated in an apartment building. And still avoided having to cope with the technical demands of having the story set under a dome. The inspiration for the reduction in venue was a stay in a less than appealing area of suburban Pittsburgh during the filming of Creepshow. He wrote almost five hundred pages this time, but was still unable to figure out all that he needed to figure out. It was not until the new millennium that the manuscript turned up again. This time he was able to garner the expertise needed to get past his technical roadblocks. He returned to the dome notion and wrote up a storm.
“I enjoyed taking the Bush-Cheney dynamic and shrinking it to the small-town level,” he said. “The last administration interested me because of the aura of fundamentalist religion that surrounded it and the rather amazing incompetency of those top two guys. I thought there was something blackly humorous in it. So in a sense, ‘Under the Dome’ is an apocalyptic version of ‘The Peter Principle.’ ” from a NY Times interviewExpanding on his Cheney/Bush analogy, he goes through a list of items one can associate not only with that dynamic duo but with others throughout history who have used crisis as a way to consolidate power, fomenting discord by sponsoring provocative and secretive actions (think Reichstag fire) as a way to cast blame on enemies, raising a private army (whether in 1930s Germany or contemporary Blackwater, sorry, Xe), planning to massacre one’s opponents (back to the funny moustache guy again), spying on one’s own citizens (see Patriot Act), controlling or at least monitoring communications (ditto), attempting to destroy opposing media, and so on. No one actually says “Kill the Pig” but if asked to, some would. It is certainly no coincidence that the evildoers here go after a truth-telling newspaper named The Democrat. There is also a countervailing force, the Jack of this scenario, although he has a name that sounds incongruous here. Dale Barbara, known as Barbie, is an ex-military wanderer, last employed at the local diner, someone who does all he can to avoid conflict, but like a certain Corleone, keeps getting dragged back.
إنها بلدة صغيرةفكما قلت عن رواية العمي لسارماجو، تظهر معادن بعض نماذج البشر وقت الشدائد والكوارث..وسقوط القبة كفيلا بأن يكون أسوأ ما يمكن من الشدائد لبلدة صغيرة
هل تفهم مقصدي
إنها بلدة صغيرة يا بني
هل تفهم مقصدي
إنها بلدة صغيرة يا بني
وكلنا نشجع نفس الفريق
عمن تبحث
ما كان أسمه؟
غالبا ستجده هناك
يشاهد المبارة
إنها بلدة صغيرة
إنها بلدة صغيرة
هل تفهم مقصدي
إنها بلدة صغيرة يا بني
وكلنا نشجع نفس الفريق
عمن تبحثمن أغنية لجيمس ماكمارتري تم ذكرها بمقدمة الرواية
ما كان أسمه؟
غالبا ستجده هناك
يشاهد المبارة
إنها بلدة صغيرة
هل تفهم مقصدي
إنها بلدة صغيرة يا بني
وكلنا نشجع نفس الفريق
“She can't help it,” he said. “She’s got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.”The concept of Under the Dome is exceedingly simple. One random day, the small town of Chester’s Mill, Maine is suddenly cut off from the rest of the world by an impenetrable dome.