"Under The Dome" by Stephen King

If one were to ask me, I would say Stephen King is my favorite author. After finishing "Under the Dome" I am not wavering in that opinion. However, it seemed to me that parts of the book were written by assistants or ghostwriters or some other person to help fill in the plot instead of by the master himself. This is a thoroughly compelling, broad and exhaustive book. "Under the Dome" shows us a small Maine town after a mysterious invisible barrier appears cutting them off from the rest of the world. Although brilliantly started, as the book trod onward I found that some of the characters to be unbelievably evil and insane and this prevented me from truly appreciating this book as much as I have his others. Still a huge fan of the Tommyknockers, the Gunslinger books, It, and many others, I didn't feel this book was up to the level I've come to expect from Stephen King. I speculate that perhaps, because of the breadth of this book, some of the characters and plot lines were not as fully fleshed out as I've come to expect from Stephen King. Maybe this would have been better served as a trilogy of smaller and more thoroughly reviewed novels. I will still look forward to reading more Stephen King but I will be less excited based singularly on the size of the book.