Under the Dome

**jhanic** · 08-21-2008 09:08 AM

That's GREAT!!

John

**Randall Flagg** · 08-21-2008 09:10 AM

New fiction is always good. New LONG fiction is great!

**jhanic** · 08-21-2008 09:22 AM

I found the reference. Ms. Mod says it weighs 16 pounds! WOW!!

John

**herbertwest** · 08-21-2008 09:34 AM

16 pounds... about 7kgs, for a manuscript?
Lets take of half of it, cause probably aint printed both sides of a paper...

a book of 3.5 kg? my gosh!
CANT WAIT :-)

**jhanic** · 08-21-2008 09:38 AM

According to Bev Vincent (on his webpage), 16 pounds comes to about 1600 manuscript pages. He said the last three volumes of The Dark Tower series came to about 2500 manuscript pages. So Under The Dome could be about 2/3 the size of those three books combined. A massive book!

John

**Bev Vincent** · 08-21-2008 09:58 AM

16 lbs, which is probably about 1600 pages.

**mae** · 08-22-2008 11:16 AM

So a regular printed hardcover would be approximately how many pages then?

**jhanic** · 08-22-2008 11:28 AM

According to Bev Vincent, the last three DT books worked out to about 2500 manuscript pages, which amounted to about 2000 pages in the trade editions. So that's probably about 1280 pages for Under the Dome (4/5ths).

John

**mae** · 08-22-2008 03:41 PM

Holy crap.

And we still don't know the plot.

**Mr. Rabbit Trick** · 08-23-2008 01:45 AM

Originally Posted by pablo

Holy crap.

And we still don't know the plot.

Cannibals. People trapped in an apartment building who start eating each other. (That's what it was originally about)

**DanishCollector** · 08-23-2008 07:36 AM

That "dome" (a forcefield?) must be mysterious. Seems like King expanded the tale, so there must be many other things. Probably supernatural.

**Matt** · 08-23-2008 07:38 AM

I think "dome" might refer to a sanctuary type situation in a natural disaster a la "superdome"

**bluelph24** · 08-23-2008 08:10 AM

Did anyone listen to Sk's reading of the first chapter at that CSPAN "The Three Kings" Him, Tabby, and Owen? It was good, but the "dome" sounded like maybe

Spoiler:

**Matt** · 08-23-2008 08:21 AM

Hmmm...I went to Three Kings and he read us Duma Key, thanks for the info, that sounds even cooler.

**bluelph24** · 08-23-2008 08:50 AM

maybe it wasn't the three kings event. But those three were there, at the library of congress (i believe) there was a q&a and they each read a little something. King read the woodchuck bit. The video's on cspan. i'll find a link.

[EDIT] Found it http://www.c-spanarchives.org/librar...ts_id=204835-1 Just push the big red button on the right side of the screen. should start playing. Also, the chapter starts about 44 min 20 sec into it.

**mae** · 08-23-2008 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by Mr. Rabbit Trick

Originally Posted by pablo

Holy crap.

And we still don't know the plot.

Cannibals. People trapped in an apartment building who start eating each other. (That's what it was originally about)

Yes, I recall that. In fact, it was originally entitled simply The Cannibals. But surely most of the plot has changed. I can't see such a long novel being set in just an apartment building.

**jhanic** · 08-23-2008 03:04 PM

I think the scope of the book will cover more than an apartment building, especially with 1200+ pages!

John

**Bev Vincent** · 08-25-2008 02:37 AM

From the Library of Congress reading, it seems that a dome-shaped forcefield of some sort is isolating a small town in Western Maine from the rest of the world.

**lophophoras** · 08-25-2008 02:54 AM

Very exciting! Can't wait to get lost in that one.

**mae** · 08-25-2008 05:38 AM

Originally Posted by Bev Vincent

From the Library of Congress reading, it seems that a dome-shaped forcefield of some sort is isolating a small town in Western Maine from the rest of the world.

The Simpsons did it!

**Mr. Rabbit Trick** · 10-22-2008 07:29 AM

Update from the Mod at SKMB:

It was sent to the publisher and his editor right after he finished it the middle of August. I haven't seen any feedback from them yet but that isn't unusual. They may have sent it directly to him. He hasn't mentioned working on the edits based on their suggestions, though. The last thing he'd mentioned to me about writing was that he had been working on the rewrite of The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County and another project that I can't give details about at this time.

**mae** · 10-22-2008 08:00 AM

I wonder if The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County could be published somehow?

**ladysai** · 10-22-2008 08:50 AM

Originally Posted by pablo

The Simpsons did it!

Epa! Epa!

**gsvec** · 10-22-2008 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by Mr. Rabbit Trick

Update from the Mod at SKMB:

. . . The last thing he'd mentioned to me about writing was that he had been working on the rewrite of The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County and another project that I can't give details about at this time.

Ok, I'll fess up. SK is coming to my house for Thanksgiving dinner. He's staying for the weekend and doing a full book signing of every edition my friends and I own. I'll be sending out invitations to all my TDT.com friends!

LOL I WISH!!

**Bev Vincent** · 10-23-2008 02:29 AM

In the new Salon interview, King says, "it deals with some of the same issues that The Stand does, but in a more allegorical way."

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