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Under the Dome (novel)

BevVincentBevVincent
edited May 2008 in General news
Brian Freeman advises: according to King at his reading on Book TV on C-SPAN 2 (taped back on the same day as the 3 Kings event), the long novel he's working on is... Under the Dome!



He said something along the lines of "I tried to write this 25 years ago...The idea stuck with me..."  He again called it a very long novel.  He then read the first few pages, about a woman getting a flying lesson and an old woodchuck walking along a road.  The reading will be aired again on Saturday, May 17, at 8:00 AM if anyone is interested.



Here is what Rocky Wood wrote in SKUU about this manuscript:



The Cannibals is a novel of about 450 pages, rewritten in July to December 1981. Douglas Winter quotes King as saying that after writing It: "I  worked on a book called The Cannibals ­ I had started it five years before, but it was called Under the Dome then.  It didn' get finished either time."



The revision was written during the filming of Creepshow: ~LI¹ve gotten about four-hundred-and-fifty pages done and it is all about these people who are trapped in an apartment building.  Worst thing I could think of.  And I thought, wouldn't it be funny if they all ended up eating each other?  It's very, very bizarre because it's all on one note.  And who knows whether it will be published or not.'
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  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Here is the C-SPAN 2 show online and for purchase on DVD.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    I finally got a chance to watch King reading from Under the Dome. The opening pages make it seem like the Dome is something real, like a force field. The woodchuck was a great character, while he lasted!
  • jhanicjhanic
    Woodchuck?!?



    I can't wait!!



    John
  • rhinotoughrhinotough
    Big dome dropped on the Earth? Sounds like the Simpsons Movie....only bloodier.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    That occurred to me, too. I'm hoping it's vastly better than that catastrophe of a movie!
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Here's an interesting exchange from the SKMB:

    Originally Posted by Darkday

    In his book The Art of Darkness, Douglas Winter quotes King as saying "I worked on a book called The Cannibals–I had started it five years before, but it was called Under the Dome then. It didn't get finished either time." So according to this quote The Cannibals and Under the Dome are the same book, or more precisely two attempts to write the same story. However SK's comments in the introduction to Blaze suggest that these are two different books. Could you please clarify this, Ms. Mod?





    Here's Steve's response:



    Those stories were two very different attempts to utilize the same idea, which concerns itself with how people behave when they are cut off from the society they've always belonged to. Also, my memory of THE CANNIBALS is that it, like NEEDFUL THINGS, was a kind of social comedy. The new UNDER THE DOME is played dead straight
  • jhanicjhanic
    An interesting if perhaps completely appropriate phrase--dead straight!

    ;D



    John
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    For those of you who don't have a copy of Blaze at hand, here is the quote referenced above: “In my career I have managed to lose not only one but two pretty good novels-in-progress. Under the Dome was only 50 pages long at the time it disappeared, but The Cannibals was over 200 pages at the time it went MIA.”
  • jhanicjhanic
    I've just been able to read a transcript of The Airplane and the Woodchuck (the first part of Under the Dome) that Pablo posted on TDT.com, and can't wait for this novel! If it's half as good as it starts, it may well become one of my favorite King novels!



    John
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    According to King's MB moderator, the manuscript is currently 1100 pages and may reach 1800 pages before he's finished. Whoa!
  • notdarkyetnotdarkyet
    i'm interested to see how that will translate to actual book pages. i've been told that it doesn't translate normally, as King uses such a huge font these days.



    anyone know?



    -justin
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    As far as I know, his manuscript pages are normal -- he just uses a large magnification scale on the screen. The final three books in the Dark Tower series were 2500 pages in total in manuscript.
  • notdarkyetnotdarkyet
    wow...that could make this King's longest book ever...well over 1,000 book pages.



    -justin
  • CRinVACRinVA
    For what its worth.

    Final three:
    • Wolves of the Calla - 714 pages
    • Song of Suzannah - 432 pages
    • The Dark Tower - 845 pages
    This totals 1,991 pages - if 2,500 manuscript pages equates to 1,991 published pages then 1,800 manuscript pages (Under the Dome) would equate to 1,433 published pages!



    That would be awesome, if not back breakingly heavy!  Helluva Tome!



    John where is that post you referred to on TDT.com?
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    The tdt.net thread was removed over copyright issues.



    UTD is going to be one heckuva big book, that's for sure.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    According to the moderator of King's message board, King has finished the first draft of Under the Dome. The manuscript weighs 16 lbs! That probably translates into approximately 1600 pages.
  • notdarkyetnotdarkyet
    Manuscript pages, right? How many "book pages" does that translate to?



    -justin
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    There's no easy formula as it depends very much on the layout. The final three dark tower books had a combined manuscript page count of 2500, so we're probably looking at something that's about 2/3 as long as those three books combined.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    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."
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    According to SK's MB moderator: "The official word from Scribner is that it will be released Fall 2009. "
  • willowlovewillowlove
    SK is apparently thinking about doing a YouTube video for Under the Dome.



    The full USA Weekend article:



    Stephen King has gone multimedia. "N.," one of the tales in the best-selling author's latest short story collection, "Just After Sunset," was turned into an original Web video series in conjunction with Marvel Comics. The collaboration has inspired King, 61; he's thinking about doing a YouTube video for his novel "Under the Dome," out later this year. Such projects are definitely fun, King says. "But with all these multimedia things, the story is the story still, the book is the book, and that's the source material. As J.R.R. Tolkien might say, 'That's the one ring.' It rules the other one."





    Also, now that Lilja has been told that Under the Dome is coming out in November by Simon and Schuster Audio, anyone want to guess how long the book on CD will be?  Just for comparison, I'm currently listening to the original 1978 version of The Stand, a Books on Tape release from 1987 with 23 tapes lasting about 34 hours.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    He was probably also inspired by his friend Michael Connelly, who released a dramatization of the first two chapters of his most recent novel to help promote it.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Currently listed as 1038 pages with a release date of November 10.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Cemetery Dance announced today that the list price for the book will be $35.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Scribner now says that the book will be 1120 pages



    Scribner, November 2009

    Hardcover, 1120 pages

    ISBN-10: 1439148503

    ISBN-13: 9781439148501
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