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GET LIT: Win a copy of Stephen King's mammoth Under the Dome

POSTED: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 6:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts Books

Scribner, 1088 pp., $35, Nov. 10

Once again it's time for Book Quarterly Giveaway Week, in which we ask you fun trivia questions about the fiction and nonfiction reviewed in our pages. Be the first to answer the question correctly, and you'll win a copy of the book of the day.

First up is Stephen King's Under the Dome, which I'm pretty sure is heavier than my laptop, clocking in at a ridiculous 1,074 pages. Justin Bauer, our resident lit columnist who admitted to not having read a King novel since high school, had this to say about it:

Dome's setup comes from the Maximal King playbook of The Stand, rather than the chamber-piece Minimal King of Misery. There's a big external threat: an inexplicable impermeable dome, set over a small Maine town like cake in a diner. There are a bunch of loose allegories (global warming, Iraq, Dick Cheney), but all lie neatly under the onrush of incident and accident that sends his town into a brutish state-of-nature spiral. In fact, King signposts nearly everything ' characters are consistently introduced with a trait or an epithet, and any event or implication is made crushingly explicit, removing the need for memory or reflection. This makes Dome quick and entertaining, but it'll stick with your biceps longer than your head.

To win a copy, answer me this:

In an online review, Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan liken Under the Dome not to its heavy brother The Stand, but to what lesser-known Stephen King novella?

E-mail your answers to carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win, and check back tomorrow afternoon for more trivia. Friday's book of the day: Scroogenomics.

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