Stephen King - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon & Under the Dome

More holiday reading; The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon finding King in fable territory, and Under the Dome in full-blown epic mode. The first of those is an eminently readable distraction; the second another testament to his prodigious ability to tell a story and to take a simple but potential-filled concept and really run with it. The most obvious comparison to Under the Dome is The Stand, and while it's nowhere near having that other's mythic sweep (it suffers from having too many fairly important characters and not enough really vividly drawn ones, and by the relative absence of back story for them), it did have the significant virtue of making me really want to know what would happen next, all the way to the end.