Group 4: Under the Dome

[mae]

Under the Dome, 2009
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Under_the_Dome_Final.jpg

Please grade Under the Dome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Dome) in the following three areas using the grades A, B, or C:


Strength of Plot
Character Development
Quality of the Story's Ending


If you haven't read this book yet, please vote Never Read. Feel free to discuss your votes in this thread.

IMPORTANT: Please make sure to select only one grade in each grading area. For complete instructions, see this post (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showpost.php?p=314275&postcount=1).

[Jean]

AAB

or rather, B+++, A++++++++++++ and A--......... but with the absence of those pluses and minuses the closest I can come up with is AAB

[mae]

Same here.

[alinda]

B A & A here. :D I think it was a really good read.

[Sam]

AAC. The story drove me to keep reading this book, the characters were so well done, and yet the ending left me so cold I was practically screaming "Oh come on! This is such bullshit man!! This? 1100 pages and this is how it ends?? Really? Damn."

[Tito_Villa]

Yeah the ending wasn't great compard to the rest of the book ... AAB

[Woofer]

Haven't read.

[mystima]

had to vote never read because not finished reading yet

[JRM]

ABC.

[Daghain]

Still waiting for the paperback to come out...:ninja:

[Jon]

I felt the story was good but the ending a cop out...kinda like the "dream ending" to "Who Shot JR."

[Spencer]

I felt the story was good but the ending a cop out...kinda like the "dream ending" to "Who Shot JR."

Actually the dream ending was ending to the "Oh my God, Bobby Ewing's dead, but a year later, the actor that plays him wants to come back!" story. :lol:

Anyway, most probably know what I think of this book. :lol:

[C~Dog]

AAB.

As others have said, the ending was sub-par in my opinion. Apart from that, I thought it was fantastic. Really wish he had expanded on the aliens instead of tacking them on at the end.

Also, when I saw the symbol on the machine I was like "WTFFFFFF".

[Chantarelle]

AAB

or rather, B+++, A++++++++++++ and A--......... but with the absence of those pluses and minuses the closest I can come up with is AAB

ABA from me. Most of the characters annoyed me. The kids (especially Ollie) were the only ones that I wanted to see get a happy ending. And I know that I'm in the minority when I say this but I thought that the ending wasn't at all disappointing.
And Jean, I just gotta ask, how does a B+++ end up ranking higher than an A--?

[mae]

The poll has closed. This round Under the Dome has earned an OAG (overall average grade) of 2.527777778 or 84.26% in addition to its FAS (final average score), making it 6.982323233 or 87.28%.

Grade breakdown:
Strength of Plot: 2.750000000 (91.67%)
Character Development: 2.708333333 (90.28%)
Quality of the Story's Ending: 2.125000000 (70.83%)

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

Missed the poll. But grade would have been AAB.

[BillyxRansom]

BA?

Yet to finish it, so..

[Jean]

And Jean, I just gotta ask, how does a B+++ end up ranking higher than an A--?
It's all the matter of natural speech versus numeric grading; it may result in those minute paradoxes.