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Originally Posted by ficbot
I was scared off by the five screens worth of characters listed at the beginning of Under the Dome. I'll still read it, but it seems like a project.
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Skip the character list. No need for it or the map really. The story held and was simple enough to follow without needing to ever refer to it - it seemed a bit overdone in my opinion that way. Making it out to be more "epic" than it was. There are books and, in particular, series where such aids are an absolute necessity and you need to make your own if they haven't provided one for you - most recent in my mind was The Quincunx and 100 Years of Solitude. But Stephen King's characters are always described sufficiently and in such a simplified polarized manner that it is easy to keep track of who's who.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that in the end this is really just your average extra-long Stephen King novel, enjoyable for what it is, no need to be put off by the misleading implication that it is going to be work to read.
Mel