I just finished reading, Under the Dome, by Stephen King. It is not the type of book that I would normally select to read, but a friend mentioned it on facebook and I figured, why not, and put it on hold at the Library. When I went to get it at the library I was surprised, Under the Dome is no lightweight, literally. I was going to say that it must weigh 5 pounds, but I just went out and weighed it on our shipping scale and it is 3.8 pounds…not quite 4 pounds.
I have never read a Stephen King novel before. I found that he is a very detailed writer, too many details for my liking, I would rather not read about a dog taking care of business…now you have read it too, but in much less detail. About halfway through I got bored with the book and just wanted to be finished, but I am not a person who will skip to the end, “The joy doesn’t come in knowing who did it, the joy comes in the journey, in allowing the end to blossom like some magnificent Himalayan blue poppy”, I love that quote, it was from the television series, Castle, season 3 episode 6. I could not just skip to the end I had to let the story blossom and blossom it did, it went from fiction to science fiction, not what I was expecting. Sadly, I found the ending disappointing, especially after investing so much of my time in reading a 1072 page book.