Chester's Mill is a small town that is found overnight in a science fiction movie. Invisible indestructible dome shrouded the city and its inhabitants find themselves trapped inside. The inability to quickly exit the dome creates an escalation of violence, suicides and murders, largely due to the rise to power of an angry and hungry local politician.
The idea behind the novel is pretty good. The first chapter I found it perfect. The rest
to ruin the good things he had done at the beginning of the book. And sometimes he succeeds.
For starters, most of things that happen in the novel I found them easy to predict. I've never been too surprised by what happens. Nor would this great defect, but in a novel of more than 1000 pages is no need to keep the attention of the reader, otherwise it limps towards the final with great difficulty.
King is very good at describing the life of a company town and in front of titanic lead on paper more or less thirty characters always gets along very well. It happens here too. The characters are almost always interesting and well executed. They are individuals, have different characters, different ambitions and small or large defects who would prefer to hide the rest of the world.
Work made by King in this novel reminded me that the same author on Precious Things, a book that I loved to madness.
If there was a desire to keep in check a small town, here is an invisible force and unstoppable. In both cases there are a lot of characters and in both cases there is a slow but inexorable descent into Hell. But
precious things work and The Dome not.
Why?
First, because the former has an important subtext is always very present, while the second is basically empty (the "moral" of The Dome is not even worthy to be compared with that of precious things). Then while in the first
because the little dramas of the characters are engaging, here too we observe everything with detachment.
And third, but not the last thing (we would have more to say, but for now I'll stop here), Needful Things has a fantastic final. It 's black, dark and absolutely no hope. Maybe Uncle Steve has mellowed with time, but the ending of The Dome I found it too sugary and pulled off (the final solution is a narrative of crazy shit fantozziana memory).
For most of the time, it seems that King has gone on automatic pilot. I found his style too aloof, as if he had written scenes and dialogues with the brain but without putting the passion necessary to make their mark. Even in the less successful novels of the King, I have always felt that feeling uncomfortable walking down the back, I always felt tension, nausea or irritation to what was happening in that world of paper. In this case it was not so. It 's all too antiseptic, too insensitive. It seems the story of a scientific experiment. Even the death of some prominent figures is merely hinted at! It 'was a definite stylistic choice? Well, for me is a deliberate stylistic WRONG!
Boh. A want to be a poet from overwork would say that this novel lacks the heart.
It is a pity, because the initial idea allowed to pull out something memorable.
I have read a thousand pages of which I will be nothing.
Uncle Steve, I love you, really, I love the madness. But go a little 'to fuck, come on.
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