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Normally, I'm a King fan but this book is awful. The main problem is that it is way too long. The first thing the editor should have said was, "Cut 3/4th of this out and bring it back to me." Lately, King seems bent on producing massive novels. Perhaps working on tight, crisp, efficient stories should be attempted for awhile. The characters are one-dimensional caricatures. The bad guys are so bad, the good guys are so good. Might as well put black and white hats on them. The town, collectively, is idiotic. No one would follow Jim Rennie for more that 5 minutes. The whole town is painted as a bunch of absolute imbeciles. The fact that so much time was spent on unimaginative characters is very disappointing. Each scene should drive the plot forward but most scenes meander and have nothing to do in supporting the plot. I also grew tired of having to go through scenes multiple times. First from this character's perspective and now from this other character's perspective...Agh! Enough! An interesting aspect of the story would have been to address what was going on outside the dome in trying to figure things out. Instead we are given, "Uh, we don't know, let's try to blow it up." When that doesn't work we get, "Uh, we still don't know, let's try to blow it up." The deus ex machina ending is wholly unsatisfying. After STRUGGLING through 1,000 pages we are treated to a resolution of 3-5 pages. It's almost as if King were tired, (no wonder), and just gave up at the end.