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I agree. I loved the first 1,000 pages--once I had all of the characters straight in my own mind--but was disappointed with the ending. I loved the ride getting there, but it felt like a King cop out--(say sorry and ask forgiveness?). Still a wonderful story.
I enjoyed most of the story, towards the end I was waiting for a big ending. Maybe King couldn't really think of one when he started and ended it anyway he could. I love King so always looking forward for the next book. I have 20 or so of his books and will be on the hunt for one I haven't read yet.
I hated this book. Yes, hate is a strong word, but I felt cheated. The ending was appropriate for a short story. I disliked the journey through a heart of darkness which seemed to revel in the darkness rather than reject it.
I loved the beginning of the book and the characters, but I was really disapointed with: the reason the dome came in the first place, and the ending. Super anti-climactic.
The ending is nothing more than deus ex machina: A deus ex machina: from the machine"; plural: dei ex machina) is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly solved with the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability, or object. Depending on usage, it can be used to move the story forward when the writer has "painted himself into a corner" and sees no other way out, to surprise the audience, or to bring a happy ending into the tale.
Aristotle criticized the device in his Poetics, where he argued that the resolution of a plot must arise internally, following from previous action of the play.
Stephen King should know better! And he shouldn't cheat his readers!
I really enjoyed this book so much I read it twice(no back to back though). My take on the story is that living under the dome is like us living under the protection of earths very own dome, the ozone layer. What happened to the town is happening to us ,but on a much grander scale.
interesting angle, Alex. i compared the ending to things we do when we are little, trapping innocent insects, frogs, lizards, etc in jars to keep them as pets...they would have eventually suffocated slowly had my mom not made me let them go.
She was probably more afraid that they would eventually escape and disappear some where in the house only to resurface and scare her.
The pollution that is accumulating in our air is slowly suffocating the planet to its death. Even though there are holes in our ozone, like holes in the lids of those jars,there is not enough room for a proper circulation of the much needed fresh air for survival.
you're a much deeper thinker than i am. i never even thought of that, which is odd because i think about overpopulation all the time.
I totally agree with you, Gerd. The ending was kind of a let down, but not bad enough to ruin my enjoyment of the book.
I myself think endings are the whole point of books..If a book ends badly then I think the whole book was pointless..The whole reason why I read this was to answer one question who put the dome up .To read 1,000 and something pages and to get a ending like that was a major disappointment and time waster..(which is fine if the ending was good and I enjoyed the book which quite frankly I did not)
Before starting to read this I was put off by bits of spoilers that announced that the end and the explanation for the whole phenomenon was a bit of fake and not credible. Now that I've gone through the whole 1000+ pages I believe that the explanation is 100% credible an even kind of "deep". I am not at all disapponted with any part of the book, this is pure Stephen King at his greatest. ne thing I can say is that I now regret burning all those ants when I was a kid!
@Athena. we all die alone. sounds like a bad ending but that doesn't mean your life was pointless.
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I agree. I loved the first 1,000 pages--once I had all of the characters straight in my own mind--but was disappointed with the ending. I loved the ride getting there, but it felt like a King cop out--(say sorry and ask forgiveness?). Still a wonderful story.
I enjoyed most of the story, towards the end I was waiting for a big ending. Maybe King couldn't really think of one when he started and ended it anyway he could. I love King so always looking forward for the next book. I have 20 or so of his books and will be on the hunt for one I haven't read yet.
I hated this book. Yes, hate is a strong word, but I felt cheated. The ending was appropriate for a short story. I disliked the journey through a heart of darkness which seemed to revel in the darkness rather than reject it.
I loved the beginning of the book and the characters, but I was really disapointed with: the reason the dome came in the first place, and the ending. Super anti-climactic.
The ending is nothing more than deus ex machina: A deus ex machina: from the machine"; plural: dei ex machina) is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly solved with the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability, or object. Depending on usage, it can be used to move the story forward when the writer has "painted himself into a corner" and sees no other way out, to surprise the audience, or to bring a happy ending into the tale.Aristotle criticized the device in his Poetics, where he argued that the resolution of a plot must arise internally, following from previous action of the play.
Stephen King should know better! And he shouldn't cheat his readers!
I really enjoyed this book so much I read it twice(no back to back though). My take on the story is that living under the dome is like us living under the protection of earths very own dome, the ozone layer. What happened to the town is happening to us ,but on a much grander scale.
interesting angle, Alex. i compared the ending to things we do when we are little, trapping innocent insects, frogs, lizards, etc in jars to keep them as pets...they would have eventually suffocated slowly had my mom not made me let them go.
She was probably more afraid that they would eventually escape and disappear some where in the house only to resurface and scare her. The pollution that is accumulating in our air is slowly suffocating the planet to its death. Even though there are holes in our ozone, like holes in the lids of those jars,there is not enough room for a proper circulation of the much needed fresh air for survival.
you're a much deeper thinker than i am. i never even thought of that, which is odd because i think about overpopulation all the time.
I totally agree with you, Gerd. The ending was kind of a let down, but not bad enough to ruin my enjoyment of the book.
I myself think endings are the whole point of books..If a book ends badly then I think the whole book was pointless..The whole reason why I read this was to answer one question who put the dome up .To read 1,000 and something pages and to get a ending like that was a major disappointment and time waster..(which is fine if the ending was good and I enjoyed the book which quite frankly I did not)
Before starting to read this I was put off by bits of spoilers that announced that the end and the explanation for the whole phenomenon was a bit of fake and not credible. Now that I've gone through the whole 1000+ pages I believe that the explanation is 100% credible an even kind of "deep". I am not at all disapponted with any part of the book, this is pure Stephen King at his greatest. ne thing I can say is that I now regret burning all those ants when I was a kid!
@Athena. we all die alone. sounds like a bad ending but that doesn't mean your life was pointless.
I really enjoyed all the characters in Under the Dome, but it was hard to wait out the end, though possibly that was King's point-even the reader must wait in agony before the dome was lifted.