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  • In Chester's Mill, Big Jim, instead of bringing the townspeople together, cultivates the notion of "us vs. them" -- even going so far as to call Barbie and his friends "terrorists".

    REVIEW: Under the Dome by Stephen King 2009

  • BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A transparent dome materializes around the town of Chester's Mill allowing one of the local politicians to make a power-grab.

    REVIEW: Under the Dome by Stephen King 2009

  • In a premise pulled straight from "The Simpsons Movie" -- but played much darker -- King sets the story in the town of Chester's Mill, Maine after it is cut off from the world when an invisible dome settles over it.

    Steven Spielberg And Stephen King Join Forces To Scare The Crap Out Of You » MTV Movies Blog 2009

  • The short, elevator-pitch summary of the plot is that a transparent dome suddenly materializes around the border of Chester's Mill, Maine, allowing one of the local politicians -- Second Selectman "Big" Jim Rennie - to make a power-grab.

    REVIEW: Under the Dome by Stephen King 2009

  • Though Joanna's freedom proved short-lived -- she was forcibly returned by slave catchers to Josiah Chester's plantation in Virginia - she left the Bergstrom family a most precious gift, her son.

    BookBrowse Previews April Books 2009

  • When an impenetrable dome crashes down on Chester's Mill, Maine, we are slammed up against the wall of one of the reigning king of horror's mightiest epics.

    10 more books we loved reading in 2009 2009

  • I was reading King Rat, Clavell's novel about prisoners in a Japanese POW camp during World War II, when Chester's eyes lit up.

    Anne Hill: How Juvenile Fiction Predicts Relationships--and Divorce Anne Hill 2011

  • And as she looked, she saw the round-bellied leader, still wedged by the neck between the pickets, draw a revolver with his free hand, and, squinting horribly sidewise, press the muzzle against Chester's side.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • I was reading King Rat, Clavell's novel about prisoners in a Japanese POW camp during World War II, when Chester's eyes lit up.

    Anne Hill: How Juvenile Fiction Predicts Relationships--and Divorce Anne Hill 2011

  • Though Joanna's freedom proved short-lived -- she was forcibly returned by slave catchers to Josiah Chester's plantation in Virginia - she left the Bergstrom family a most precious gift, her son.

    BookBrowse Previews April Books 2009

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