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As word spread about just how dramatically CIO Dana Deasy planned to transform the IT organization, you can imagine people realized they had to get on board or get out. Deasy says the transformation idea "caught on like wildfire." To keep people focused on the right goals and to force a consistent approach, BP's IT leaders came up with a communication strategy of the Four R's, which later gave way to the Four E's.
Here are the Four R's Deasy and team laid out at the start of the effort:
"We needed to take the whole global IT organization and gut it, and then rebuild it," Deasy says.
Deasy describes this as "fixing the capability of the organization--our people and the assessment of them." That led to skill evaluations of 1,000 top IT people, cutting 1,000 full-time contractors, and focusing talent more on subject-matter experts.
REENGINEERING Deasy saw too many silos of IT operation, so he centralized IT decision-making in year one to force people to work together. The plan was then to decentralize those roles that made sense to sit inside the business units.
This involved rebidding $1.5 billion worth of IT spending for a single year, cutting BP's 2,200 IT supplier base, and requiring suppliers to work together.
The IT team made quick progress on those goals, which created a different kind of problem. "We're coming out of the transformation and the fear is that people would be preoccupied with wondering, what's next?" Deasy says. "To avoid that, we had to create a sustainable program that everyone could get their heads around." That led to retirement of the Four R's and creation of the Four E's to explain where the IT team members had been and where they were headed:
This is what the IT team did at the first stage of the process: "We changed people, suppliers, and a lot of pretty heavy-handed things," Deasy says.
Deasy characterizes this as "leveraging our scale." That starts with rebidding contracts to get new terms for 65% of its IT spending, but also demanding more ongoing transparency and cooperation from those suppliers.
Deasy says his CEO, Tony Hayward, "always says, 'Dana, don't ever lose your efficiency edge. You've worked so hard to gain that, and you need to be sure you don't lose it.'" That drives the IT team to explore how to use its new tiered structure to deliver a service--like e-mail, help desk, or data center capacity--that's more closely tailored to a business unit's price-performance needs. It's pushing its five key app dev and maintenance vendors for fresh ideas.
"Only after the effectiveness piece is in place can you move on to innovation and new things," says Deasy. "Only at this point can you truly be able to deliver new kinds of business value."


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"Jesus's teachings were not meant to be theoretical," Elder Oaks said. "Always they were to be acted upon Following Christ is not a casual or occasional practice, but a continuous commitment and way of life that applies at all times and in all places."
Elder Oaks presented the church's commitment to marriage between men and women, care of the poor and needy, humanitarian service and missionary outreach "to all the world" as additional examples of how Latter-day Saints follow Jesus' New Testament teachings.
"From modern revelation, unique to the restored gospel, we know that these teachings are part of God the Father's plan for the salvation of his children," Elder Oaks said. "Under that plan we are all heirs of our heavenly parents.
"This means, as we are told in the New Testament, that we are 'heirs of eternal life,' and that if we come to the Father, we are to 'inherit all things' — all that he has — a concept our mortal minds can hardly grasp. But at least we can understand that achieving this ultimate destiny in eternity is only possible if we follow our Savior, Jesus Christ, who taught that 'no man cometh unto the Father but by me.' We seek to follow him and become more like him, here and hereafter."
A third apostle, Elder D. Todd Christofferson, was the Sunday afternoon conference session's final speaker (not counting President Monson's brief concluding remarks). He focused his remarks on the role of Jesus Christ as the Redeemer of mankind.
"Without (the Savior's) redemption from death and from sin, we have only a gospel of social justice," Elder Christofferson said. "That may provide some help and reconciliation in the present, but it has no power to draw down from heaven perfect justice and infinite mercy. Ultimate redemption is in Jesus Christ and in him alone."
Because Latter-day Saints follow and love Jesus Christ, he said, "we seek to participate in and further his redemptive work."
"The greatest service we can provide to others in this life, beginning with those of our own family, is to bring them to Christ through faith and repentance so that they may experience his redemption – peace and joy now, and immortality and eternal life in the world to come," Elder Christofferson said. "The work of our missionaries is a magnificent expression of the Lord's redeeming love. As his authorized messengers, they offer the incomparable blessings of faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost, opening the way to spiritual rebirth and redemption."
Genealogy and temple work also allows church members to "assist in the Lord's redemption of those beyond the grave," he added.
Elder Christofferson pointed out that there is also an element of redemption that is temporal.
"Jesus is said to have gone about healing the sick and infirm, supplying food to hungry multitudes and teaching a more excellent way," he said. "This kind of redemptive work means helping people with their problems. It means befriending the poor and the weak, alleviating suffering, righting wrongs, defending truth, strengthening the rising generation and achieving security and happiness at home. Much of our redemptive work on earth is to help others grow and achieve their just hopes and aspirations."
Four members of the Seventy also spoke during the closing session. Elder Christoffel Golden Jr. explained how "the doctrine of the Father and the Son is the doctrine of the eternal family." Elder Enrique R. Falabella shared six things he has learned during the course of his life, noting that "these and many lessons are learned in a home, the place that can become a piece of heaven here on earth." Elder Erich W. Kopischke testified that "having the Holy Ghost as our constant companion is the ultimate indicator of being accepted by God." And Elder Bruce D. Porter expressed his feeling that "even in a darkening world, we as Latter-day Saints may sing with joy knowing that the powers of heaven are with God's church and his people."
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'Unchecked' Experiments on People Raise Concern
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: May 14, 1997
WASHINGTON, May 12— On the outskirts of the nation's capital, tucked away on the sixth floor of a suburban office building, there is a little-known computer data base: a state-by-state accounting of the experiences of every cat, dog, hamster, guinea pig, chimpanzee, rabbit or farm animal used in a laboratory experiment.
Here in the Government's Division of Animal Care, one can discover precisely how many guinea pigs were subjected to biomedical research in 1995 (333,379). Or how many chimpanzees felt pain during research but were comforted with medication (19,712). Civil servants have compiled such numbers for 31 years, ever since Congress passed the Animal Welfare Act.
But there are no comparable figures for people. ''We have better information about animal experiments than we do about human experiments,'' said R. Alto Charo, of the President Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory Commission.
More than two decades after the Federal Government issued regulations to protect human subjects of medical experiments, the research landscape has changed so much that many doctors and scientists are not necessarily covered by the rules. For example, an entire area of study, embryo research, has grown in the private sector over the last 20 years.
The regulations were the direct legacy of the notorious Tuskegee study, which was halted 25 years ago, amid revelations that the Government had withheld treatment for syphilis to black men in Tuskegee, Ala., without their consent.
The Federal regulations were aimed at establishing the twin pillars of ethical research for subjects of federally-financed studies: the assurance that patients would be warned of risks and that an independent panel would evaluate the experiment before it was conducted.
But as President Clinton prepares to issue a formal apology to the subjects of the Tuskegee study on Friday, there is mounting concern that the Government's protections do not go far enough.
On Capitol Hill, Representative Christopher Shays, Republican of Connecticut, convened a hearing last week to determine the scope of lapses and violations of ethics in experiments. He was startled by the testimony, including accounts of ethics panels, institutional review boards, or I.R.B.'s, set up as profit-making ventures to evaluate proposed experiments for research groups that pay them.
''I found it amazing,'' Mr. Shays said. ''I am struck by the fact that we have I.R.B.'s that can be created by anyone, that we don't even know how many there are. I think the more we get into this the more we are going to realize how casual this process really is.''
Moreover, certain privately financed research is not bound by the rules. The loophole means some people -- no one knows how many -- are participating in studies that are wholly unregulated. When there are complaints, there is nothing the Government can do.
''There is unchecked human experimentation taking place,'' said Dr. Gary B. Ellis, director of the Federal Office for Protection from Research Risks. How much is impossible to determine. But documents obtained from the research protection agency revealed several examples of possible lapses, though the names of those making the complaints were withheld.
In one instance, the parents of a 3-year-old boy with a rare genetic disease enrolled him in an experimental bone marrow transplant program in 1990, at a state university hospital. The parents said their son emerged from the treatment with profound brain damage, unable to walk, talk or feed himself. There was no way to know if the treatment caused the damage, but in a 1991 letter to the protection agency, his parents said that the consent form they had signed had not fully explained the risks of the procedure.
''Had we been informed of this risk we would not have consented to the transplant,'' the couple wrote. ''We are now faced with the expense and challenge of caring for a brain-damaged child who will now live a much longer life span because they corrected his disease.''
In another case, an Oregon breast cancer patient complained that the hospital in which she had received chemotherapy had released information from her medical records to researchers without her consent.
In both cases the research was privately financed, so Dr. Ellis could not investigate. ''We have incident after incident where we get to the point where we determine that we don't have the authority,'' he said. ''It's very frustrating.''
Senator John Glenn, Democrat of Ohio, has been seeking to close this gap. He introduced a bill, the Human Research Subject Protections Act of 1997, that would require informed consent and board review of all experiments, regardless of who paid for them. The bill also would create criminal penalties for violators -- a provision that has drawn criticism from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association of America, which often finances private research.
''We believe in informed consent and our companies bend over backwards when we deal with patients,'' said Mark Grayson, the group's spokesman. But criminal penalties were unwarranted, he said.


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WTF is That? No. 2
March 30th, 2009 link to (permalink)
The man in the picture is not being hurt. In fact people are trying to help him. What in the world is the name of this device and what does it do? Answers in the comments.
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JJoe Says:
March 30th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Does he work for Microsoft?
Andy Simons Says:
March 30th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Its a pair of electric boxing gloves?
Flixter Says:
March 30th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Its an early electric chair.
admin Says:
March 30th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Nope, nobody gets hurt.
Indiefab Says:
March 30th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Haha. Great pic. That's one of the first electrocardiograms. His hands are in jars of salt water with electrodes attached. And yes, I cheated. I'm a doctor. Heeheee.
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March 30th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
@Indiefab. Congrats – spot on, its an Einthoven cardiograph.
More details here: http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/history/einthoven.html
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March 30th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
It's the Electrostash Generator 3000. You can see how plump his mustache is just after 5 minutes of treatment. Yes you too can have a luxurious mustache of your very own in just minutes! No more hassle and headaches attempting to look like a real man…just plug in and grow!
With the ES 3000, you can even use the innovative 'Select-O-Stash' dial to choose the perfect mustache for any occasion. A Cary Grant mustache for a professional look, a Salvador Dali for those spunky days, or a Tom Selleck for when you want to impress the ladies.
Act now, supplies are limited!
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March 31st, 2009 at 8:18 am
@Yosemite. Oh how we wish it was the Electrostash Generator 3000.


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Linux Command Line Parameters
The next group of options are specific to individual kernel device drivers. I won't describe each of them in detail, because some of them are rather specialized and are documented elsewhere.
This option is for setting up Ethernet interfaces. It allows setting parameters such as the interrupt request number and base address. The meaning of the parameters varies somewhat depending on the type of interface card. The Ethernet HOWTO document describes these in detail.
This option sets the highest Logical Unit Number to be used for SCSI devices. Valid values are 1 through S. This may be needed if autoprobing of the SCSI bus causes problems on your system.
hd=cylinders, heads, sectors
This option sets the hard disk geometry for SCSI or IDE disks. Normally Linux obtains these from the BIOS; the command line option can be used to override those if they are not correct.
st=buffer size,write_threshold,tape_buffers
This option is for setting SCSI tape driver parameters. The file drivers/scsi/README.st describes these in detail.
This option sets the interrupt request line to be used for the bus mouse driver.
stOx=parameters tmc8xx=parameters stOx=parameters tl28=parameters pasl6=parameters ncr5380=parameters ncr5380=parameters ahal52x=parameters
These are all options for setting up the various SCSI host adaptors supported by the Linux kernel. See the SCSI HOWTO for more information.
xd=type, irq,i/o base_address,dma_channel
This option sets the XT hard disk driver parameters. See the comments in the file drivers/block/xd.c for more information.
mcd=port, irq, workaround_bug
This sets up the Mitsumi CD-ROM interface. The first two parameters are the base I/O address for the controller and the interrupt request. The third option sets a delay value used to work around problems with some Mitsumi drives.
sound=parml, parm2,...
These options set up the sound driver. The parameter encoding is explained in the file drivers/sound/Readme.linux.
sbpcd=address, type
e.g., stpod=Ox230,SoundBlaster
This command sets the parameters for the SoundBlaster/Panasonic CD-ROM driver. See the file drivers/block/README.stpod for details.
Any other options are passed on to init in its argv array and as environment variables. For example, LILO passes the argument "auto" if the system was booted without a manually entered command line. The command "single" will instruct init to boot up Linux in single-user mode.
Here is how to see what options were passed to init:
% ps -awww | grep init 1 con S 0:03 init auto
The proc filesystem also lets you look at the environment passed to init, which always has process ID number 1:
% cat /proc/l/environ | tr t'\O'' "\n" HOME=/ TERM=conl32x30
A colleague suggested a kernel option that is missing: "help". While this is not implemented yet, hopefully this article has convinced you that there are many other useful options worth exploring.
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Saas-Almagel Travel Guide: 17 reviews and 26 photos
Saas-Almagell is the most southerly village in the Saas Valley in thre Valais region of Switzerland and is situated at 1600 m above sea-level. Quieter than neighbouring Saas Fee.
A variety of hiking paths exist - easy and flat around the Mattmark Dam, more experienced will tackle the the Monte-Moro pass or the Antrona pass to Italy, which were used by the ancient Romans and also smugglers.
The Almagelleralp is also worth exploring and from there you can return across the adventurous trail around the Almagellerhorn via its ladders and rope bridgs to the oldest hamlet still in existence in Saas-Almagell - Furggstalden with its original old Valais houses.
- Pros:small untouristic swiss village
- Cons:walk around dam was closed
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Just a hot chocolate stop here in this lovely valley settiing. A chance to rest our feet after a zig-zag walk down from... more travel advice
A nice little mountain restaurant with a relaxing sun terrace just by the hamlet of Fuggstalden above Saas-Almagel. Try... more travel advice
An alternative to reachiing Furggstalden if you cannot face the adventure trail is to take the easy forest path up from... more travel advice
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Beautiful !!! I was in Saas Almagell when I was in school - but it seems not much has changed in this tiny village ! And never made it to Mattmark Dam - it looks great !
Another Alpine Paradise that I need to discover and hike... Thanks for your wish. Greetings from the Sunny Valais ;-)
More of the Swiss alpine at its best thanks to our British wanderer! Great pictures and tips. I tlooks like you are ready for a real 'iron route';-] The have some in Slovenia, you know;-\
A kind of destination for me :-))) And that Steinbock looks sympathetic :-) Thanks for sharing your findings with us!
Wowie how fantastic, I liked the photo of that sweet Blondy climbing the stairs :-)))
argh you made me want to go back to switzerland here. i would never survive the adventure trail though..... oh and, i want to see the plastic sheep!!!!!
Wonderful page Sandy and beautiful photos! The adventure trail looks like fun! And I am sold on that Appel strudel with vanilla sauce.... mmmm, delicious! Hahaha, only the thought of it makes my mouth water already :-))
Your page brings back such lovely memories! Remember that path from Saas Fee to S. Almagell very well, had a nice meal there in the restaurant Bodmen. Do you know about that horrible accident with the Mattmark reservoir?
We are two of a kind, always looking for those mountain villages like this and Zermatt. Go to the east sometime around Davos and Scuol. I can never say enough about this beautiful place. We are true admirers.
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The rodeo industry says formal guidelines should ease concerns about animal welfare issues ahead of the Warwick Rodeo on Queensland's Southern Downs.
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HOUMA — Pinning down where Shanderay Aitkens will be on a daily basis can be challenging.
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The one-time recording artist and mother of three also does something else on the side: makes New Orleans Saints-themed bathing suits.
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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. 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
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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. 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 select-woman, 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.
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But it doesn't matter that, in the old words of the New Left, the whole world is watching. Big Jim Rennie (yes, there's really a character named Big Jim), town selectman, power broker, and secret drug lord (he's set up a major meth factory), isn't about to let some socialist Negro tell him how to run his town.
In the book's afterword, King says he first tried to write Under the Dome in 1976 and couldn't. No wonder. He had to wait for American reality to catch up to him. Which is to say that Under the Dome is King's metaphor for the ways in which America sealed itself off from the rest of the world during the Bush administration. And the dome also works as a metaphor for those who, out of their belief that the current president is a usurper out to destroy the very idea of America, would like to continue that kind of internal isolationism.
Just because a metaphor is obvious -- and they don't get much more obvious than King's dome -- doesn't mean it isn't effective. King, who has always taken a naturalistic approach to fantastic subject matter (that's what makes his work so frightening), pushes very close to caricature. Big Jim isn't just Lionel Barrymore's Mr. Potter as a drug lord and murderer -- he's a born again used-car salesman. That is to say, he's the all-American huckster come back outfitted in the sheep's clothing that some of the worst con men of the last20 years have found suits them best.
How does King get away with it? There are, I think, two answers to that question. One is the sheer delusional extremism of our current era. To listen to the fantasies about death panels for the elderly and FEMA internment camps, about Obama being a socialist foreign national bent on turning America into a police state, is to realize that if Richard Hofstadter were writing today he'd have to call hisessay "The Batshit Style in American Politics." You can't caricature people who have already turned themselves into caricatures.
The second answer has to do with the ways in which all of us are allowed to talk trash about our own. There are few American writers less removed from the people they are writing about than Stephen King. The details of middle-class and working-class life in his books have remained so vivid that you believe King could reel off not only the contents of his characters' kitchen cabinets but also what they paid for all of it at the supermarket. The contempt King feels for his Down East Mussolini Big Jim and the thugs under Big Jim's command isn't the nose-sniffing disdain of the highborn for the lower orders, it's the recognition that comes from having lived among people and seeing them for what they are, the way some of us notice, years later, that the class bully has joined the local police force. (I once watched King walk into a bookstore in Massachusetts and identify a clerk whom he recognized as having worked at a bookstore in Bangor20 years earlier.)
A deep disgust animates Under the Dome -- sadness, too. It reads as if King has stored up every way in which, during the first eight years of the decade, America betrayed its democratic ideal, every display of arrogance, every 3 a.m. panic that the bullies in charge were about to come knocking on the door, and tied it into his narrative. By the unsparing end, King has become something like the horror novel's John Brown, ready to expiate his country's sins in fire and blood.
Under the Dome sustains itself for all of its length. It's not, though, the book I'd choose as the most resonant work of political or social criticism King has written. For me, those remain From a Buick 8 and Cell, both of which address the aftermath of 9/11 in terms that are emotionally direct -- yet not obvious in terms of their narratives. Both books are about the interruption of everyday life by events that don't fit into any comprehensible context. And both ask if, in the wake of such ruptures, it's even possible to reassemble a normal life.
The lauded novels that have attempted to address 9/11, like Joseph O'Neil's Netherland, have avoided addressing the fear and rage that day stirred up, as if the proper function of being literary were to make sure, above all, that things stayed civilized and controlled, and churning, messy, potentially ugly emotions be avoided. Contrast that approach with this passage, taken from King's From a Buick 8: "How mundane it had been, at least on most days. On most days we had just gone on...[it] didn't change the amount of paperwork we had to do or the way we brushed our teeth or how we made love to our spouses. It didn't lift us to new realms of existence or planes of perception. Our asses still itched, and we still scratched them when they did."
Those lines don't refer to 9/11, but I don't see how any alert reader could fail to see how they apply to it. It's a passage in which our national ability to go on is shown to be inextricable from our national amnesia. It's everything admirable and ignorant about America in a few lines.
You could say Under the Dome is about the consequences of not being lifted to new realms of perception by dire events. As a Twilight Zone version of It Can't Happen Here, fat with character and incident, Under the Dome is an engrossing read, sometimes wobbly in tone, sometimes clumsy in execution. King has never coddled his readers by saving the most likable characters, and a writer who deals so often in horror should be lauded for portraying the ugly reality of violence, even if that sometimes means a descent into pulp. The overt political content of Under the Dome lacks the impact of the more oblique political comment embedded in From a Buick 8 and Cell -- and yet you read this book feeling as if King is grappling with something. We're awash in novels that are collections of beautiful sentences. Next to what King is attempting here, they're the ones that feel sealed under a dome. --Charles Taylor
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"King returns to his glory days of The Stand." New York Daily News
"A wildly entertaining trip." People (3.5 stars)
"Under the Dome moves so fast and grips the reader so tightly that it's practically incapacitating." Newsday
"Stephen King's Under the Dome was one of my favourite books of the year so far." Neil Gaiman
"Dome is classic King, sure to please any fan." Baltimore Sun
"Spellbinding." ABCnews.com
Product Details
- 9781476735474
- Publisher:
- Gallery Books
- Publication date:
- 06/11/2013
- Edition description:
- Media Tie-In
- Pages:
- 1088
- Sales rank:
- 34,951
- Product dimensions:
- 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.90(d)
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From two thousand feet, where Claudette Sanders was taking a flying lesson, the town of Chester's Mill gleamed in the morning light like something freshly made and just set down. Cars trundled along Main Street, flashing up winks of sun. The steeple of the Congo Church looked sharp enough to pierce the unblemished sky. The sun raced along the surface of Prestile Stream as the Seneca V overflew it, both plane and water cutting the town on the same diagonal course.
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"Tight and energetic from start to finish... Hard as this thing is to hoist, it's even harder to put down." New York Times
"The work of a master storyteller having a whole lot of fun." Los Angeles Times
"King returns to his glory days of The Stand." New York Daily News
"A wildly entertaining trip." People (3.5 stars)
"Under the Dome moves so fast and grips the reader so tightly that it's practically incapacitating." Newsday
"Stephen King's Under the Dome was one of my favourite books of the year so far." Neil Gaiman
"Dome is classic King, sure to please any fan." Baltimore Sun
"Spellbinding." ABCnews.com
Meet the Author
Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Finders Keepers, Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel), Doctor Sleep, and Under the Dome. His novel 11/22/63—a recent Hulu original television series event—was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller as well as the Best Hardcover Book Award from the International Thriller Writers. He is the recipient of the 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
Brief Biography
- Hometown:
- Bangor, Maine
- Date of Birth:
- September 21, 1947
- Place of Birth:
- Portland, Maine
- Education:
- B.S., University of Maine at Orono, 1970
- Website:
- http://www.stephenking.com
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Please hold your critiques until you've read the book. I had the privilege to get my hands on an advance copy and I've been singing this story's praises to everyone. King brings the town of Chester's Mills to vivid life, examining the deepest, darkest secrets of the town. Early on, a character makes a reference to Golding's Lord of the Flies; if only they had such luck. The story could happen in any town, and that is what makes it so terrifying and engaging. Under the Dome is long, but it seems he could have doubled the length and still left you wanting more. I recommend taking off a few days after the release of this book, because you will not want to waste time eating, bathing, or going to work until you've turned the final page.
I'll be honest. I haven't been a fan of King's last couple of novels. With the exception of, "Just After Sunset". His books have been slow at best. This is not true with "Under The Dome" I too got the chance to read the advance copy and I loved every page of this lavish tome. The wealth of characters and plot balance perfectly between way too many people to keep track of and too few to hold your attention. Those of you skeptics who look at the page size and think of how long winded King can be, this is not that book. It needs to be this size, and I will tell you right now it is worth every minute you spend with it on your lap. The only bad thing to say about his newest book is if you leave it sitting on your legs, they may fall asleep-but you'll be too enthralled to notice anyway.
I was lucky enough to get my hands on an advance copy. I was initially concerned by the editorial reviews comparing this to The Stand. As a fan of the author, I have read all his works, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Arguably The Stand is King's greatest stand-alone work, Dark Tower connections not-withstanding, but this is darn close to the top. King catches you from page one, with his description of an apparently ordinary morning in The Mill, which quickly becomes extraordinary. The characters drawn in the story are compelling. He shows us a seemingly ordinary American town, whose underbelly is far darker than anyone can imagine. After the dome falls, the dark core of this town quickly overwhelms the good. Some of the characters are twisted and evil. The good folks of The Mill shine through the breakdown of values and social structure. But just as compelling is the effects on the dome on the normal townsfolk. People who are just like the rest of us, but fall in line with the despot in charge. In a week, a Maine town becomes Germany in the 1930's. There are some 3rd act problems in the book, it is not perfect, but it is an exceptional work. The fantastic aspects of the dome aside, this is a great book dealing with the sociology of human goups in a crisis. Like The Stand, you'll grow to love and hate the characters, but you will keep reading. King is truly a master of character developement. I forced myself to read the book in small portions, because King can turn me into a glutton, devouring his work in hours. It is worth the time to enjoy his writing to its fullest. Can't wait to see the cover!
In Chester's Mill, Maine Big Jim Rennie runs the small town through underhanded extortionist politics and illegal drug dealing. His son is a bully throwing his father's influential weight at others. Few overtly counter this pair of leading citizens, but army veteran Dale "Barbie" Barbara and newspaper editor Julia Shumway lead the opposition.--------- Already somewhat isolated due to its location, an invisible dome suddenly falls over the entire remote New England village; dropped by the Overlords who live amongst us and have chosen this place apparently for one of their experiments. Things begin to happen rather quickly starting with the plane crash and the tractor explosion. Nothing can enter or leave. Over a short period of time the infrastructure begins to collapse and survival means enemies teaming up. Some claim this is God's punishment and wait for the Rapture; others believe that Big Jim made a bad deal with his drug overlords, but some like short order cook Barbie insist it is something else. As conditions deteriorates rapidly, the townsfolk fail to unite; instead remain splintered into two major groups led by Big Jim who invokes marital law and Barbie who searches for who and why, and several smaller factions who mostly choose inaction using diverse rationale to defend their position.----------- This is a strong King thriller that returns the great horror author to his Stand roots of good vs. evil. Although somewhat stereotyped characters, fans will not care as morality takes center stage with the cast's differences of opinions negatively impacting survival. Good vs. evil on a bigger stage looks inside as on the smaller platform of Chester's Mill good vs. evil plays out in a reality version of survival.--------------- Harriet Klausner
I am always hardest on Stephen King because I have been reading him since I was about 12 years old, and he is my favorite. As always, he explores his characters, their motivations and histories to further the readers' view of their actions. There are many characters in this book, many who mirror those you will see around you in everyday life, however the numbers keep the histories of each character to more of a minimum than usual for him. This book is long, and each day of the story is detailed. There is a map of the town the story takes place in, as well as a list of the characters. This is helpful. There is not as much suspense as I thought there would be, but he does paint a great setting. The ending is strange, however it does kinda give the reader a sense of how they relate to the world around them. If this is your first Stephen King, take a pass and read a collection of short stories first to get used to his style.
I started to think and worry that maybe Stephen King lost his craft. I thought a lot of his books lately where not so great (maybe since Dark Tower 7). But this book is great! the kind is back, buy it now and read it as soon as you can this book is a great, and it was surprising how fast it goes.
As I come to page 500 in this wonderful book, I can't put it down because Mr. King has done a great job of piecing out the chapters to manageable and thrilling sections. I don't remember being able to read good size chunks in a sitting in the past but the book paces itself quite nicely and the 1100 some odd pages are moving along. The characters are true King and you look forward to what is in store for them next. As always there is that dark and looming unknown presence in the room but man you just can't wait to get to the next page. My only negative aspect of the book is the book itself....the weight and size is very difficult to hold while reading in bed. I however wouldn't have been able to wait for the electronic version but would advise future readers to go that rout or wait for the paper back. I don't know if it's going to go down as better than The Stand but I would be willing to read the extended version if it ever came out. My last King novel was Just After Sunset and prior to that was at least 10 years ago. I'm not into all of his books and have moved away from the majority of his latest novels but this my friendly reader was well worth the wait.
This book was a real page turner. I expected nothing less from Stephen King. He is the master at creating unique characters and usually has a compelling plot for your enjoyment. Under the Dome has both . . . fascinating characters and a plot that keeps you turning the pages as fast as you can. My favorite part of Under the Dome were the lessons that readers can take from this story. We all can learn to be better to others, especially in times of crises. I felt that Mr. King was spot-on in this book with how a society would react if faced with this situation. As for the ending . . . yes I understand how some people are upset with it, but I felt it was just right for the story. Overall, Under the Dome is a great book and a "must-have" for your Stephen King collection.
This book clearly proves that bigger is not always better. King starts out this thriller with a bang and does a decent job introducing characters that could have come from Twilight Zone episodes. Socio-political issues of a small town come to light with good plot twists and this continues to work for two-thirds of the book. However, King gets bogged down with overkill, adding unnecessary details and repetitive plot lines for each character, rather than giving us what we really want: more about the Dome! What really irked me was the ending. I had to read the last few pages three times and am still not sure what he wanted you to think. After nearly 1100 pages, the climax left you dissatisfied and feeling taken. He apparently got tired and wanted a quick resolution. I was tired too. My resolution is to skip his stuff in the future.
This is the kind of Stephen King book I enjoy reading. 1,000s of pages to establish an epic story and enough thrilling and compelling elements to keep the reader up way past midnight (if you don't know already, the best time to read Stephen King is at night.) I love the similarity of the style to THE STAND, one of my all time favorite books. I am glad King has ventured from his recent carapace of somewhat blander writing. Yippy-ki-yi-yay, mother******, as King would say!
Although Under the Dome is 1000 pages, reading goes quickly as the writing style is quite simple. The only thing of real interest for me was the dome itself. What an interesting concept! Unfortunately the reason for the dome is lackluster and could easily have been used as a short story concept instead of as a tome. I missed the suspense and can't-stop-reading characteristics of many of his other books and am perplexed that the author who is capable of writing The Shining and The Stand would write Under the Dome. This is not Stephen King at his best or even close to it.
Going into details would give parts of the story away, but what I will say, is that King's vision of small town life is vivid.so real. Each character is so distinct and different from the other characters. King's portrayal of the town leader, Jim Rennie is so right on the money that when Big Jim speaks, you just want to reach into the book and slap him. He's a typical politician but the mannerisms, the holier than thou attitude.it all leaps off the page. We learn who these people are, we know their insecurities. It's like looking into a window as you walk by a house. We see things that we shouldn't, and although some of the story is a bit predictable, that's okay because in the end, these are folks that we care about. With this book, I see a vulnerability that I haven't seen in a King book in a really long time. Sort of like, he was testing the waters. Not the big-time writer writing up another bestseller, but it was as if he really wanted his "constant readers" to feel good about this one. I do feel good. As grim as the subject matter was, I feel good about reading it because this is the King that I have been missing for a long, long time. One example of this is his inclusion of a character list at the beginning of the book. There are dozens of characters yet I never had to use that list. I knew who each one was and what they were about yet King wanted to make sure of that. I found that interesting. I know that a lot of folks avoid King because some of his writing is pretty graphic. This one has some graphic scenes and a few may cause your gag reflex to go into overdrive, but compared to his other books, I felt this one was pretty mild. It's the "end of the world as we know it" type of violence that is caused by mass hysteria.shootings, rapes, suicides, etc. There is some language too, but not nearly as much as his other works. When people grow desperate, they get ugly. You just have to know this going in.
I have always been a faithful King reader and fan. However, Cell and Lisey's Story were big disappointments to me. Duma Key slightly rekindled my faith in his work. I am so glad I didn't give up. This was a great read. Not as awesome as The Stand, but it contained that same strong human good vs evil interaction idea. The Chef reminded me of Trash Can Man, and other parts of the story were reminiscent of his past works as well. I just hope he keeps writing in his older style. "Why fix it if it ain't broke?" is what I always say.
I'm a huge Stephen King fan. I've enjoyed almost all his books with only 2 or 3 that I thought were just ok to read. This is an outstanding book with many, many positives and only a few negatives. First the positives: - The plot is creatively told and keeps your interest the entire book. In addition, the plot and the subplots are not the usual formula types that have the expected outcomes. - The characters are wonderful. You'll recognize types of people that you know in your life and you may even recognize yourself in one of the characters. King does an oustanding job developing and fulfilling the characters. - The pace is superb. He keeps the plot going forward even while detailing the characters in ways that add significantly to the story. Now the couple of Negatives: - The overall length. In this day and age of immediate gratification, it feels overwhelming to begin a 1000 page book. On a positive note, I am grateful that this wasn't a trilogy like some authors have gravitated to. = The ending felt rushed. This was probably because of the 900 pages leading up to the ending more than it actually being rushed but it felt fast. I hearily recommend this book. King's writing remains the best of the best. I especially like his inclusion of modern culture like music and othe entertainment as side references in his books. In this one, he mentions Lee Child's main novel character, Jack Reacher. The Reacher novels are some of my favorites and obviously King likes them too. This is a long read but well worth the time.
Okay, let me start off by saying that everyone who knows me knows I adore Stephen King. They also know I think his writing style and characterization are pitch-perfect reflections on real life. Horror aside, no one can make people live and breathe on the page better than King. With that said - here we go! "Under the Dome" breaks new ground when it comes to telling an epic story. Like "It" and "The Stand" it is populated by many, many characters, but the true character that stands out in this tale is the town itself - Chester's Mill. Surrounded by other towns made infamous in other King tales (Tarker's Mill in "Cycle of the Werewolf", TR-90 from "Bag of Bones" and Castle Rock - well, what needs to be said there?) There is a sense of the everyday in the way King descibes the town and its people and on Dome Day, their mettle will be tested severely. I will not mention names on plot developements since the book is not even out yet, but I will say you are in for one hell of a ride. The big question is What is the Dome and what will happen if it doesn't go away? The ending is perfect King, holding you on hooks as you read and read and read this 1,088 page monstrosity. IT IS WORTH IT! As always King plays at poking fun at something that needs to be addresses - in this case the planet. Environmental issues and the like, but he has fun doing it. From the initial set-piece you know King is not about to let you - his Constant Readers - off lightly. Like in "Cell" he takes something we take for granted and gives it a bloody edge. As his books go I place this in my Top 10, but it did not reach my top spot. "Insomnia" still is my all time favorite, despite many people arguing relentlessly with me - that book is just perfect. "Under the Dome" plays on a huge canvas and no one but King could have pulled this off. With it being so long yo would usually get tired or overwhelmed, but you dive in and hold your breath as long as it takes with this one. Hopefully you come back alive. After the initial release of the book I will post a much more precise review on The Eerie Coterie website. It is http://eerie-coterie.blogspot.com.
I've been a King fan for many years, but Under the Dome falls flat despite more than enough pages to build it, shape it and hurdle it at us. Maybe I was expecting The Stand and instead got 900 pages of fairly predictable small town characters at odds with each other and 200 pages of a rather anticlimactic, unimaginative explanation of why the dome is there. King doesn't seem to be writing in his genre here, in fact at times it didn't even seem as if it was his writing. Maybe there's a reason this novel took so long to bring to completion. It just wasn't meant to be.
Being a huge Stephen King fan, this book was highly anticipated. When I got it for Christmas, I couldn't wait to finish the book I was reading in order to start this. From the beginning, I was captured by the rich depth of the characters and of course, the little surprises left by King. I enjoyed being able to pick up the book and get involved in the lives of these people, even though the concept of the book to me was scary, if only because it reminded me of a certain animated movie. The length did not bother me, in fact I fel that the story could have been a bit more lengthy. The idea ended up being very interesting and I got very excited as I continued. Then, I got to the end and was disappointed. I knew where he was going with the story, but I expected more depth, more detail and more of the original King disturbia.
Stephen King must be getting paid by the word! This book had an interesting premise but it definitely would have improved with some editing. It's about 400 pages too long and that fact alone reduces the thrill factor considerably. If you're a big King fan...wait for the soft cover.
Stephen King is one of my favorite writers, specifically because of books like Under the Dome, in which he creates a town of people, a town of characters, and then has them fight against each other and join forces against a common foe. This book is fairly slow. It spends about sixty or seventy pages explaining all the deaths that happen when the Dome falls, then spends another thousand explaining what happens after. The book takes place within a week, and there is a lot of talking and characterization taking place between each more exciting and memorable scene. The characters are surprisingly deep in some respects, but a lot of them just sound the same and feel the same. All the cops hired on after the Dome falls for instance just feel like two dimensional characters, not characters I can really care for when they get hurt. The plot is not the biggest selling point, but it is pretty good. I mentioned before there were quite a few memorable scenes, and there are. It has many violent, bloody action scenes that leave an imprint in your mind. It is especially scary when you learn about some of the characters and can tack their personalities and actions on top of someone you know. How realistic the characters are and how they react to everything is amazing, and King's ability to create horrible situations and realistic reactions to them is rarely found in many novels. The whole story of "Put some people away from civilization" has been played out in books such as Battle Royal and Lord of Flies, but never to the degree of this. The ending is what really makes it lose a couple points. I didn't particularly like it. Sure the story is resolved and everything is over, but the execution and how it was done (no spoiler here) didn't feel right. I guess I kind of understand what it was getting at and the message, but I was hoping for a much better explanation of the events happening. I just want to address some other things about the book. Stephen King has always been raunchy and disgusting, but this book really shows this. Characters get raped, have sex with dead bodies, have illusions of two dead chicks having sex. It is full of disgusting things that really might churn the stomachs of some people, but it does show that a lot of bad things will happen when there is not law to interfere outside the dome and the only law is inside. I have a couple problems with the book, but any book I can read in five days that is as lengthy as this definitely deserves praise. It is a pretty good read, and while not the best King book ever, I personally think is the best one of the latest decade.
In response to dreaminglily, this book is a re-write of an unfinished novel that Stephen King wrote in the 1980's, well before the Simpson's Movie was released, you should really try getting some background info on the book before writing a (rather) negative review, especially since the review you're writing is for a book that won't be released until November.
Stephen King writes some very long novels. The Stand was great-the extended version felt a little disjointed, but I couldn't put it down. Dreamcatcher seemed a bit like two stories, one of which I loved more than the other (I really liked the film). Duma Key is fantastic-still intriguing long after the book's been put back on the shelf. And Under the Dome, which I've just read-well, I'm sorry I'm not still reading it. Despite its weight (too heavy to carry round the house) and size (too big to take to the airport while picking up my Mum), I could scarcely put it down. Under the Dome has a huge cast of characters-a whole neighborhood, plus assorted hangers-on, passers-through, cops and politicians and military types. It's told through shimmering points of view-this chapter here, this chapter there. And the character introductions are perfectly done. I found myself reading with delight, then wondering afterwards, how did he do that? And, since I'm trying to edit my own multiple-point-of-view novel, I then found myself re-reading to see if I could answer, how did he do that? Stephen King is a master at slow revelation. A character inspires sympathy. We see him through the eyes of a friend, through his own eyes, through the eyes of a stranger. and slowly we see why he shouldn't be inspiring such sympathy after all. Another seems like a nobody then quietly, reluctantly, reveals his hidden depths. Young and old have the power to lead, surprise, and confuse. And the writing glides chapter by chapter through switching points of view, setting up scene and explanation to constantly intrigue. The set-up is great. A dome; a community sealed off from the world-of course, it inspires the question, how on earth will the author explain this? But he does, successfully, with hints and images quietly pointing the way. A Lee Child quote on the cover declares, "The best yet from the best ever." I think I agree. Under the Dome is a masterful novel, well-crafted, well-plotted, with fantastic characters, intriguing concepts, curious depths, and the power to leave your wondering, What if? I really enjoyed it. Disclosure: My husband bought me this for my birthday. He has good taste.
As a Stephen King fan myself I found this to be one of his best books in the past couple of years, which I'm sorry to say isn't saying that much. He really has a way with characters that I envy. Yet I found that I knew quite a lot of what those characters were going to do next. As a republican I object to some of his comments in the books and would recommend to leave your feelings out of your books if you want people to continue to read your writing. Luckily there were only a few comments and they weren't offensive enough for me to quite reading. I would say that it is a lot longer than it needed to be, he could have cut it down to 800 pages without losing any of the story. Despite the length of the book it still read surprisingly fast. Over all I would say that the reason for the dome was a let down. I would recommend this book to other Stephen King fans who are looking for a character driven story.
A master of weaving terror. King goes more to his roots in this novel tingling the brain with horror in a very profound way.
WOW, what a read. What a page turner. Could not put this down. I nearly spent every waking minute for 4 straight days "Under the Dome". I'm a huge King fan but he kind of lost me with Lisey's Story and Duma Key. Well, he is back with a vengence. Words like thrilling, epic, dark, and apocalyptic come to mind when I think about Under the Dome. This book rocks! It left me in a state of shock and awe, not to mention exhaustion. The book must weigh 8 lbs. I know people will say it is unoriginal, a rip off of twilight zone or other novels about a small town that's completely cut off from the outside world. But nobody, and I mean nobody, does it better than King. His best novel in years.
I just had to see what comes next, what the the madman could come up with next, and so on! I think it is Stephen King's best "people book" ever. The characters step off the page. I have thinking about them all day - I finished the book early this morning - I feel like I have lost some friends. The book presentation was brilliant - the illustrations, the additional cards, the double dust cover. All in all - very impressive. I love Stephen King but I am selective and I know what I like and dislike. THIS IS LIKE AND RECOMMEND.


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