Cell

Hardcover, 709 pages

English language

Published Aug. 8, 2006 by Thorndike Press.

ISBN:
978-0-7862-8568-6
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Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, has just landed a deal that might finally enable him to support his family by making art instead of teaching it. He's already picked up a small (but expensive!) gift for his wife, and he knows just what he'll get for his boy, Johnny. Clay's feeling good about the future. That changes in a hurry...The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse, and the delivery method is a cell phone. Everyone's cell phone. Clay and the few despearate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitc-black night of civilization's darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature. There's really no escaping this nightmare. Stephen King's utterly gripping, gory, and fascinating novel doesn't just ask the question "Can you hear me now?" It answers …

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A pulse spread by cell phones erases brains of all who answered the phone. They turn extremely aggressive and murderous against each other and the "normies" - normal people who didn't pick up the call. Clay, a comic book artist, with a small group of "normies" travels through cataclysmically changed world in search for his son and wife, and eventually a dead zone without the cell phone signal.
A very bloody story full of gory details, not for the reader with a sensitive stomach. There's King's trademark suspense, although the book seems like an idea which gave way to lot of blood, but failed to fully develop into a story. A cross-breed between "The dawn of the dead" and "Happening", neither a movie I'd watch nor recommend.

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Subjects

  • Murderers
  • General
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Horror
  • Large type books
  • Horror - General
  • Cellular telephones