穹顶之下
Under the Dome
Stephen King · 初版 2009 年
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为什么值得读
- 揭露小镇政治腐败与权力寻租的内幕
- 深刻刻画普通人在危难中易被独裁者操弄
- 开篇设定极为吸引人且极具张力
Under the Dome 是美国作家 Stephen King 于 2009 年出版的科幻小说。Under the Dome 是 Stephen King 出版的第 58 本书，也是他的第 48 部长篇小说。小说以缅因州的一个小镇为背景，通过多人物、交替视角的复杂叙事，讲述了小镇居民如何应对突如其来的灾难：一个坚不可摧、透明如玻璃穹顶般的屏障仿佛从天而降，突然切断了小镇与外界的联系，将这个社区变成了一座被穹顶笼罩的封闭之城。
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可能没有这里推荐的其他一些书那么高大上，但我真的很喜欢斯蒂芬·金的《穹顶之下》（Under The Dome）。它基本上讲的就是一个小镇上的政治腐败，以及在危机中人性容易被独裁者利用的弱点。
Maybe not as high brow as some of the other suggestions here but I really enjoyed Stephen King's Under The Dome. It's basically a story of small town political corruption and the human tendency to be easily exploited by dictatorial types in a crisis.
书店里的现货零售价简直离谱。《穹顶之下》的大开本平装书要20美元？得了吧。也许实体书店的新模式应该变成私人图书馆那样，只是不用借还。主要收入全靠高利润食品的冲动消费和……
Off-the-shelf retail prices for books are insane. $20 for a large-format paperback of Under the Dome? Please. Perhaps the new model for physical bookstores should be that of a private library, except without the checkout aspect. The main income comes from impulse buys of high-margin foodstuffs and…
……是否存在，还是说我们本质上只是一群自私自利的“小部落”，偶尔目标有些重合……直到利益冲突为止。小说家们广泛把这种脆弱的平衡当成情节看点。斯蒂芬·金的《穹顶之下》就是我立刻想到的一个近例。一旦“边界”升起，小镇的社会秩序崩塌得惊人地快（几天之内就玩完，哪怕水电、食物和服务都……
…exists, or if we really are just small groups of self-centered "tribes" with sets of overlapping goals...until they aren't. Fiction writers have made extensive use of this tenuous balance as a plot point. "Under the Dome" by Stephen King comes immediately to mind as one recent example. Once the "boundary" goes up, the town's social order falls apart surprisingly fast (within days, even though power, water, food, and services…
……猜，答案是“看情况”。我读虚构类一般会从头读到尾，如果篇幅够短（比如迪恩·孔茨的普通小说），我经常一口气读完。像斯蒂芬·金的《穹顶之下》这种小说可能得花两三次读完。非虚构类则是另一码事了。商业书我倾向于在一套时间段内（比如一两周）从头读到尾，但我会同时交叉着读好几本书……
…guess, the answer is "it depends." I tend to read fiction cover to cover, and if it's short enough (the average Dean Koontz novel, for example) I often read it one sitting. A Stephen King novel like Under The Dome might take 2-3 sittings. Non-fiction is a different story. I tend to read business books cover to cover (relative to a span of time, like say a week or two), but I interleave reading multiple books…
我还想把 audible.com 加到这个名单里，他们会把某些书限制为仅限美国购买。我是 audible 的白金订阅会员，然而我根本买不到斯蒂芬·金的《穹顶之下》。于是第二天我索性就从 thepiratebay 上把它下下来了。不过斯蒂芬·金的其他书我确实是在 audible 上买的。
I would also add to this list audible.com which restricts certain books to US only. I am a platinum subscriber to audible, however, I couldn't get my hands on Stephen King's Under The Dome. So I got it from the thepiratebay pretty much on the next day. I did buy other King's books on audible though.
要是斯蒂芬·金还在自己独立出版的话，《穹顶之下》怕是得在现有厚度上再多出500页。谢天谢地有个编辑能跟他说让他“写短点”。另外，几个月前还有人推测 J.K. 罗琳打算搞点……
If Stephen King were still self-publishing, Under the Dome would have been 500 pages longer than it already is. Thank God there's an editor to tell him to keep it "short". Also, there were speculations a few months ago that J.K. Rowling was planning to do something…