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  • By: Stephen King
  • Narrated by: Raul Esparza
  • Length: 34 hrs and 24 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (700 ratings)

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Under the Dome

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Raul Esparza
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In Stephen King's mesmerizing new masterpiece - his biggest, most riveting novel since The Stand - a Maine town and its inhabitants are isolated from the world by an invisible, impenetrable dome.

Celebrated storyteller Stephen King returns to his roots in this tour de force, featuring more than 100 characters - some heroic, some diabolical - and a supernatural element as baffling and chilling as any he's ever conjured.

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mills, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. 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. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when - or if - it will go away.

Dale 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 selectwoman, and three brave kids. 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.

But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out.

With some of the most spectacularly sinister characters King has ever imagined and a driving plot, Under the Dome is Stephen King at his epic best. This book will thrill every listener who's ever loved a novel by King.

©2009 Stephen King (P)2009 Simon & Schuster Audio division

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What a book!!!

Love this book. So much better than that stupid series on TV. Why didn't the screen play follow the book ?? Anyway I loved it it's well worth the time to read or listen too. Kept me awake on my long nightshifts thanks Mr King

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First timer or Virgin listener

I'm 57 and read books since I was 4, love the smell and touch of books, oh, and I was a printer for a long part of my life. So that is why it took me soooo long to pull the trigger and subscribe to Audible, quite frankly it felt false. I'm a huge podcast listener but somehow felt I was letting the team down listening to a audio book. I spent my teenage years immersed in early Stephen King but went off in the early 90s, I picked this one because of some reviews and because I had a longing of being a young guy again lol. Really good read great narration and actually got me into King again.If you like King this is well worth a listen.

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So well written and read...

I don't know what the equivalent of a page turner is in an audio book, but whatever it is, this has it! And if all the audio books I've listened to, this has to be the best performance by a narrator. So many characters and yet Raul managed to make each unique enough so each could be identified by their voice. Loved it!

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Under The Dome

In my early years I read as much Stephen King as I could lay my hands on, Tommy Knockers, Misery and Needful Things being three of my favourites. Now, I’m a bit of a scaredy-cat and can’t read anything really scary, it’s not big and it’s not clever to have to wake up your teenage daughter to take you to the loo and wait until you are back in bed to turn out the lights! I am so happy to have come across this book, it is a great suspense novel with a little scare hear and there, believe it or not there were some laugh out loud moments and some tearful moments.
I just loved this book and highly recommend it to anyone reading this 🤓

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Worst Stephen King book ever boring & never ending

I still haven't made it to the end i keep falling asleep the book should have been a short story might have been ok then

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Good story terrible narrator!

Good story but far from classic stephen king. The story laboured at points however overall was ok. The narrator was dismal. His voice characterisations fluctuated between dirty harry, stoned surfer dude, colonel Sanders and jerry lewis' retarded child's voice from the nutty professor. His next narration should be limited to sign language.

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Great story. Solid narrator. Give it a go.

This is a brilliant story. It contains much of King's dark view of human nature- that isn't a criticism. Rather I suspect he is stunningly close to the truth. The narrator annoyed me at first but either he improved or I warmed to him. Either way I was absorbed after a bit and it held me to the end.

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sensational

one of my favorite stephen king books, kept me interested all the way through and brilliantly read

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Epic Gold

In Chester's Mill, the sun is shining, birds are singing and a woodchuck, happily searching for food is suddenly chopped in half as an impenetrable dome appears around the city limits. Steven King, you are pure gold. Credible characters - some loveable, some extremely not, had me in a trance as I was swept along with them at hypersonic speed. Paul Esparza's narration was faultless and while this is a very long book, I did not tire of it at all.

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Great story, great reader.

This was my first audiobook ever. I was afraid I might find it hard to follow the reader, since I'm used to taditional books when it comes to novels. But it turned out to be a great experience. The book is excellent, and the reader did an amazing job. Thanks!

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