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 mstrust | Jul 1, 2023 |  A King fan told me this was his best story. I wondered if it was about a telephone, or a cage! Yes indeed the mobile-phone is evil, capable of wiping the brain of human users (or, phoners), and reducing them to zombies. The end of the book states King does not own a cell phone (ha ha). Entertaining, if a little far-fetched. I was curious that this novel (in 2006), of how small a percentage of the population purportedly owned a mobile/cell phone, and wondered if this was correct. Certainly here in the UK I had by then already lived through the paranoia of consumers worried about the radiation; but nonetheless, I was glad King had seized an opportunity to write about human fear concerning this. Fun horror, lots of killing mass zombies. (  ) AChild | Mar 23, 2023 | Initially, I enjoyed this book. The premise was quite original: cell phones were transmitting a signal that turned people into zombies. However, for me the book fell flat. It seemed unnecessarily long and I found the talk of 'worms' 'mutating' rather unbelievable. The ending was a bit of a let down. (  ) martensgirl | Mar 15, 2023 | Fine for a Stephen King horror-zombie-apocalypse book, I guess. Not my fave genre. ( ) steve02476 | Jan 3, 2023 | ooh! a fun, easy-to-read, modern life is rubbish apocalypse book! And it's not taking itself too seriously! (  ) clairefun | Oct 27, 2022 |
 If you have ever worried that using mobile phones might scramble your brain, Stephen King suggests you may just be right. It all happens at 3.02pm one afternoon, when everyone in the world using a cellphone suddenly becomes a violent maniac.  Stephen King is supposed to have retired. A year ago, he published the final part of his seven-book Dark Tower saga with the book of the same name - a novel so crushingly disappointing that, reluctantly, all but King's most ardent fans were forced to agree with the author himself that it was probably time for him to stop and enjoy the royalties from his 40 or so bestsellers. Cell is Stephen King's first full-length novel since his threatened retirement in 2003. Of course, this most prolific of authors has not been idle during this period, penning a collaborative non-fiction book about baseball, a regular column for the popular US magazine Entertainment Weekly, several short stories, and even a short (and slightly puzzling) noir novel, The Colorado Kid, for small publisher Hard Case Crime. This is the first of two new novels to be published this year, with Lisey's Story to follow in October. This is the way the world ends... not with a bang, but a whimper. — T. S. Elliot Actually, it ends with a "pulse" -- an errant cell phone signal that wipes away the user's humanity, 'rebooting' their brain back to something basic... primordial... and evil. Even those within earshot of the gray matter draining signal suffer a kind of evolutionary epilepsy, reverting to a state of pure impulse and mental confusion. As the feeling consumes its host, madness takes over, and there is only one way to satisfy this cruel craving. The insanity must be met with violence, quelling the instinctual bloodlust that lay dormant inside every person's DNA. Thus the world ends, and it's the very people who protected and prospered upon it who are now intent on taking it down. If the stretch of years between Sept. 11 and last fall's Kashmir earthquake has reminded us of anything, it's that history can take a drastic turn in one day. Stephen King jumps into the middle of one such day on the opening pages of Cell, his first full-length novel since he came off what has to be the shortest-ever retirement not involving professional boxing. Happily wandering Boston after selling a comic-book pitch, artist Clay Riddell watches as the world goes mad when a mind-wiping electronic pulse turns everyone using a cell phone into a violent zombie. Distinctions
Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological attack. What matters to them is surviving the aftermath. Before long a band of them-"normies" is how they think of themselves-have gathered on the grounds of Gaiten Academy, where the headmaster and one remaining student have something awesome and terrifying to show them on the school's moonlit soccer field. Clearly there can be no escape. The only option is to take them on. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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July 2013’s SK Flavor of the Month – Cell
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This isn't one of my favorites from King, in fact, the first dozen pages or so were a little ham-fisted, lacking the je ne sais quoi of most of his work. The annoying, constantly crying female character that is in other King novels is here in Alice, who reminded me a lot of Frannie from The Stand, and The Raggedy Man had a little of Randall Flagg about him. But the allegory of cell phones turning humans into mindless zombies is clear. (