Wow that was a ride. Next time I start an ebook I plan on checking the page count XD 
 I loved it, I loved the whole town setting, the end of the world contained to a little sock shaped dome, and all the chaos that ONLY spans within a week?! WHAT? How did all this happen in only one week? 
 Happy Halloween Reads to all :) 
 *Update and full review* 
 Story 
 Imagine one day your stuck in your town, you've sent out your husband for something in the next estate, your child's at soccer playing an away game, your best friends out shopping and you cancelled on them so you could sleep in and read for a few more hours, your mum's visiting your aunt who lives 45 mins away, now their shut off from you. Physically unable to get back into the town, safe out there while your stuck in this small town you've lived in all your life. 
 A plane explode into what looks like thin air, cars are having head on collisions with nothing you can see, all the birds are dying by smacking into what seems like a window, Everything along state lines has been cut in half. Animals mutilated, people half in and half out sliced clean through the middle. You take stock of your supplies, you walk to the town center to talk with locals and find out who has dies and who is injured. You try to wrap your head around this clear rock hard force field encircling your little town, give it a name "The Dome" Go to bed and hope the government fixes everything by tomorrow. 
 Stephen King presents us with an amazing predicament and through multiple POV's and a narrator is able to tell us whats going on everywhere inside this small town in Maine. Average people are going stir crazy, people who lost their love ones are grieving and hosting funerals, The Doctor was away and now it's up to the doctors assistant to treat a whole town with only an ambulance driver and candy stripers on duty. 
 The police force is looking a lot like the Stanford Prison Experiment and becoming increasingly corrupt. There are murders on the loose and your friendly town has turned on it's self, Being cut off from the world as they know it. 
 Turning the army posted on the other side of the Dome as "them" and themselves as us. The lines start to smudge even more when the good chief of police dies and the corrupt second town selectmen starts to claw his way to the top creating an Us and Them inside of the dome. 
 Thoughts 
 WOW this book is big, I mean 1000+ pages! I read this on eBook and didn't check the page count until around 350 pages in, by then I had already fallen for this little town and its residents. 
 The writing style is unique and kept me engaged the whole way through. Not only did I love Barbie the ex military out of towner, but Julie the strong-willed reporter, Rose the cafe owner who knows everyone's favourites, Rusty the town "doctor" his wife Julia and there two kids. We had not one villain but a whole array of them, ranging from psychotic messes to power hungry used car dealers and even a bunch of teenagers that were given guns and no training causing my chaos then calm. 
 The one moment that really made me put the book down and contemplate if I wanted to keep going was when the reverend (view spoiler)[ was confronting the new cops with her German Shepherd, due to the narration we already knew gun shots would be involved and her beloved dog was killed protecting her, I put down the book hugged my German Shepherd and kept going, Is it strange I'm more emotional over the death of dogs in books then I am humans? Perhaps (hide spoiler)] This part hurt my heart. 
 The research that went into this book is phenomenal and in my eyes it really paid off, from how animals acted when trapped, to how the climate would change, to how people can turn at the drop of a hat or should I say forcefield *snickers*. 
 The ending was great for me, all the way up to the last page I didn't know how this would all turn out (view spoiler)[ Sam the drunk saving the day was surprising and really cool, the idea of aliens playing around with our world is terrifying and I know I will never let a kid burn ants ever again (hide spoiler)] 
 I haven't watched anything but the first episode of the TV show and even watching that the difference are already there. I plan on watching the series asap and seeing this unfold on TV. I find it interesting how this book only spans over a week, so much happens it's so well documented. I am assuming the TV show spread across a longer time period but I guess I'll find out when I watch it. 
 Review is also up on my blog : Under The Dome @ adoptabookaus