Smakebit på søndag: Under the Dome

Bild lånad från bokus

Solen lyser och så fort jag skrivit dagens smakbit så väntar balkongläsning under parasollet :) Smakbiten idag kommer från Stephen Kings Under the Dome och är den första boken i min föresats att läsa några tegelstenar under juni. Jag har sett första säsongen på tv, och tyckt om, och eftersom "alla" säger att boken är mycket bättre och jag inte läst en King på säkert tjugo år så kändes det här som en bra kombination :) Fler smakbitar från bloggares läsning kan du hitta på Maris blogg.

Jag har precis börjat på boken så jag väljer en bit där kupolen ger sig tillkänna. Första stycket handlar om ett murmeldjur, i det andra är det personerna i ett litet flygplan:

   The chuck decided he’d go a little farther anyway. Humans sometimes left behind good things to eat. 
   He was an old fellow, and a fat fellow. He had raided many garbage cans in his time, and knew the way to the Chester’s Mill landfill as well as he knew the three tunnels of his own burrow; always good things to eat at the landfill. He waddled a complacent old fellow’s waddle, watching the human walking on the other side of the road.    
   The man stopped. The chuck realized he had been spotted. To his right and just ahead was a fallen birch. He would hide under there, wait for the man to go by, then investigate for any tasty-    The chuck got that far in his thoughts - and another three waddling steps - although he had been cut in two. Then he fell apart on the edge of the road. Blood squirted and pumped; guts
 tumbled into the dirt; his rear legs kicked rapidly twice, then stopped.    
   His last thought before the darkness that comes to us all, chucks and humans alike: What happened?

Även på svenska

All the needles on the control panel dropped dead.    
   “What the hell ?” Claudie Sanders said. She turned to Chuck. Her eyes were wide, but there was no panic in them, only bewilderment. There was no time for panic.    
   Chuck never saw the control panel. He saw the Seneca’s nose crumple toward him. Then he saw both propellers disintegrate.   
   There was no time to see more. No time for anything. The Seneca exploded over Route 119 and rained fire on the countryside. It also rained body parts. A smoking forearm - Claudette’s - landed with a thump beside the neatly divided woodchuck.    
   It was October twenty-first.