That book knocked me on my tookus.Īnd then there’s Under the Dome. For an example of this, check out Norman Partridge‘s sublime Dark Harvest, which I’d heard about for several years but never read until a couple months ago. There are occasionally those glorious occasions when the book exceeds the hype. Sometimes, a book is about what you expected. Sometimes you hear a lot of hype about a book, but the reading experience falls short. That has nothing to do with the negative comments I’ve heard about the aforementioned adaptation and everything to do with one simple fact: I don’t need to see a filmed version.īecause the mental version of the book is still unspooling in my mind. I haven’t seen the mini-series, nor do I want to for a good while. I finished Under the Dome a few days ago.
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