From the book jacket:
There's a reason cell rhymes with hell.
On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. He's just landed a comic book 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 long-suffering wife, and he knows just what he'll get for his boy Johnny. Why not a little treat for himself? 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 desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization's darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature...and then begins to evolve.
There's really no escaping this nightmare. But for Clay, an arrow points home to Maine, and as he and his fellow refugees make their harrowing journey north they begin to see crude signs confirming their direction: KASHWAK=NO-FO. A promise, perhaps. Or a threat...
There are one hundred and ninety-three million cell phones in the United States alone. Who doesn't have one? Stephen King's utterly gripping, gory, and fascinating novel doesn't just ask the question "Can you hear me now?" It answers it with a vengeance.
Moe's Review
I had really high hopes for The Cell, it seemed reminiscent of The Stand which is possibly my all time favorite King book. Unfortunately, the book didn't live up to those expectations. The Cell is a decent book and it starts off with a bang, it's just that those who were zapped by the pulse end up becoming a bit boring. I do like our group of survivors and King once again writes them well, making them living and breathing people that we grow to care about.
I would give this book a light recommendation. I wouldn't tell you to run out and buy it, but if you are at the book store and see a used copy for cheap or want a King book that is easy to get through this will easily fit the bill. |
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