However, if you're in a car or noisy environment, you will have trouble discerning the words even with the volume booster on.(Image credit: CBS) What Under The Dome Is About For example, if it reads, 'i know you have something to do with this!', Jan yelled.', then the line should be YELLED! not muttered or weakly delivered.Īnyway, if you're in a quiet setting, I'm sure this won't be of concern. I think there's been numerous times already, where a line was delivered in a totally different way than the book even describes it being spoken, or shouted. In the future, use a hi-pass filter, and make sure the overall volume is on par with even your average DIY podcast. I have the volume boost on 100% and I still can't hear the muddy, washed out low-end frequency dominant words over the janky growl of my mail truck.

The production of this book is not great. Since we are listening to audio books, my main critique will be whether or not the book was listenable, and to what degree.

I'm no longer going to describe how I did or did not enjoy the contents of books I read here, because everything is subjective. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing-even murder-to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when-or if-it will go away.ĭale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens-town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids.

Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact.

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Don’t miss the “harrowing” (The Washington Post) #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from master storyteller Stephen King that inspired the hit television series, following the apocalyptic scenario of a town cut off from the rest of the world.

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