“Under the Dome” by Stephen King is a comforting, nostalgic listen to me. I’d walk for up to 30 mins or more, from work to home and back, just listening to it, in years past.
Listened to it again rather recently and one bit, that hasn’t aged well *at all* is the bit with the military “boosting the wifi” so the tech nerd kid (who is written like someone much, much older, with slang like that of an old surfer dude) could broadcast a video in “full 1080p hd!”.
Now granted, the scene is still effective and gets done what it needs to (in that oddly cozy King style) but good grief, I cringe each time. It’s like listening to a “zoom and enhance!” bit from a bad early 00s procedural.
What are some other examples of this? Again, not instances of bad writing, exactly, but where the author seemed more than a little out of their depth?
by descendantofJanus