What can I say? Stephen King's Under the Dome kept me on the edge of my seat throughout all 800+ pages. King has no qualms about killing off characters you perceive to be important, so it pays not to get too attached to any of them, but yet you still do. The characters are that well written that you can't help but become involved. You care. And the evil, oh my, the evil characters in this book pop up like weeds after rain, and wrap themselves around everything. King is just so damn good at writing evil. I didn't know how they were ever going to get out from under the yoke of the biggest, most corrupt leader of all times. 
 I loved the book. At times I had to put it down, because of the evilness of some of the characters. I needed a physical breather. Time to recoup my senses. But this is a true human horror story, made up of delicate threads, proving just how interwoven our own histories and lives are.