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Cell: A Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

by Stephen King (Author)
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Starred Review. It's probably a good idea not to use your cell phone while you listen to Scott's beautifully understated reading of terrormeister King's latest take on technology run amok: you might just toss it down the nearest storm drain. The excellent film actor (who catches the power of his late father George C. Scott's voice but smooths off the rough edges) adds an important element—quiet believability—to King's bloody, occasionally over-the-top story of a short but lethal electronic signal that seriously damages everyone in the world using a cell phone at that moment. The Pulse, as it comes to be known, turns idle chatterers into weirdly rewired killing machines. Scott makes the lead character—a comic book artist from Maine (where else?) named Clayton Riddell, who is in Boston with his phone off and in his pocket—a touching and surprisingly tough survivor, much like the nonpods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. He also resists the temptation to make the "phoners" (those affected by the Pulse) sound unusually strange or dangerous—until their real motives become obvious. Simultaneous release with the Scribner hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 2). (Jan.)
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Campbell Scott's measured pace leads the listener through this updating of King's 1978 bestseller, THE STAND, with the earlier novel's apocalyptic super-flu replaced by a cell phone pulse that renders anyone with Motorola to the ear a vicious zombie with indiscriminate eating habits. As a band of ragtag survivors staggers north from Boston to Maine, Scott does a smooth, subtle job with the challenging Yankee accent in all its urban and rural permutations. Poorly adjusted editing does pitch Scott's voice eerily deep at times, but the story is entertaining overall. And if you're a cell phone user, you're guaranteed to hesitate the next time you prepare to punch "Send." A.M.D. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Thrilling end-of-the-world saga of the phone hordes versus the last few normies!?!,, Aug 17 2007
By Ms. N. P. Dougan (Ravara, Ireland) - See all my reviews
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Ever since George A. Romero set the world alight with `Night of the Living Dead' in 1968, screen writers and novel writers alike, have tried to match the originality and brilliance of that story. Some have come close, but no-one has ever matched it. (Even George A. Romero has tried and despite some excellent attempts, he has failed.) The Cell is Stephen King's attempt and again it fails to hit the mark.

It's a brilliant premise - something as ubiquitous as a cell phone, being used by an unknown enemy, to turn the population into frenzied, inane, killers. Think about it - everyone has a cell phone, from your eleven year old cousin to your eighty year old grandmother - they are everywhere! So, if they were ever were to turn against us, we would be in trouble!

Unfortunately, the brilliance ends with the initial premise and does not radiate throughout the book. King's ideas are original; all the usual zombie clichés are missing, there are no gung-ho ex marines ready to kill anything that moves and in King's book when you die, you die, you are not resurrected as a flesh eating, groaning, monster. Even though this is true, I kinda miss these old unoriginal cliché's!

'The Cell', unfortunately, never seems to warm up, firstly, it jumps straight into it. The first zombie appears on the fourth page, giving the reader no time to get to know the characters. (Surely, we have to learn a bit about the characters in order to decide if we want them to get killed in grotesquely horrible ways, or we want them to survive to the end?) But Clayton is the only character we are introduced to before the book launches into the action and we only get to know him in the books dangerous and stressful situation. (I realise that books these days have to capture the reader from the first page, but King, is such a popular writer that surely he can afford to spend a few pages letting us get to know his characters.)

King does have interesting ideas, the zombies or the `phone hordes' are all guided by some higher intelligence and communicate telepathically or through dreams, they are not the brainless, flesh-eating zombies we have come to expect from this genre, but like the premise, he never seems to capitalise on these good ideas. The book is definitely worth a read, if you are a massive King fan you will probably love it and any book that contains the line "Homeland Security's been cancelled due to a lack of sanity" has got to be worth consideration. However, this reader prefers, some of Stephen King's other work, like Shawshank or the Shining, both of these are as near perfection as a novel can be!!!

I have no doubt Stephen King will return to form and impress us all again! After all, he is the brain behind such classics as Carrie and The Stand. So I am disappointed for the moment, but I am eagerly awaiting his next book, hoping it will match the novels previously mentioned.
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2.0 out of 5 stars not The Stand at all, Aug 24 2009
By A. Kozan "ripley244" (Calgary, Alberta) - See all my reviews
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I just recently finished this book or rather 2/3's of it. Many people have compared this to The Stand and I have to disagree. It's more like a Tommyknockers/Dreamcatcher combo.

The middle part of Cell was interesting, but the characters still remained flat.

The storyline was stupid with no explanation of how this happened, i.e., the cell phone stuff.

The only characters I liked were Alice, Tom and Rafe the cat.

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3.0 out of 5 stars What to say?, Jan 11 2007
By R. Osborne (Blind Bay, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews
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Have to agree with others here. Cell is a remake (in most degrees) of The Stand. The Stand being a much better and more engaging story.
The Cell starts off nicely and then tires in the last 3rd of the book.
The ending is predictable but also leaves many unanswered questions at the same time.
I was left feeling frustrated at the lack of closure and completeness.
No doubt this story will be made into a movie as it would be an easy sell given the fact almost everyone owns a cellphone.
Cellphones/Brain Altering Computer Virus = End of World. Good Hollywood stuff.
King can still come up with some interesting and dark stories though. This is not one of them.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not a good introduction...
This was the first work by King I have read, and I was left feeling cheated. While the writing was gripping, the climax and eventual ending did not fulfill the expectations he had... Lisez davantage
Published 7 months ago by Melinda Gross

4.0 out of 5 stars A Return to King
This was the first Stephen King book I've finished in years. While nowhere near as good as the books he wrote in the 70's and early 80's, "Cell" was a compact and decent book,... Lisez davantage
Published 20 months ago by Chris

4.0 out of 5 stars DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE...
This latest book by the author is reminiscent of his earlier works, as it is strong on plot, less so on characterization. Lisez davantage
Published 24 months ago by Lawyeraau

4.0 out of 5 stars When good tech goes bad
Stephen King makes a welcome return to creepsville with "Cell", his best book in recent times. Although no "It" or "Pet Semetary" on the creepy scale, this one goes back to the... Lisez davantage
Published on Sep 25 2006 by Amanda Richards

4.0 out of 5 stars My 100-word book review
Cell starts off with a bang, when civilisation comes to a sudden, and very bloody end. From then on, however, things take a downward turn, as a group of characters embark on a... Lisez davantage
Published on Sep 3 2006 by A. J. Cull

4.0 out of 5 stars Who, What?
I have loved SK since "Carrie". Although I've been disappointed with most of King's latest in recent years, Cell seems to be a bit of a return to the King of yesteryear. Lisez davantage
Published on Jul 15 2006 by Ann Macy

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Stephen King in a long while!
I eagerly awaited this release after reading the synopsis. This was the first Stephen King book I have bought in 6 or more years. Lisez davantage
Published on Jun 6 2006 by C. Hipwell

3.0 out of 5 stars Average...
As a King fan I was eagerly awaiting the release of this novel
but I was to be disappointed as the story is basically a rehash of The Stand. Lisez davantage
Published on Jun 4 2006 by Wayne Allen

3.0 out of 5 stars Could do better...
As an avid Stephen King fan I was eagerly awaiting this novel but I was to be disappointed.
The book has a great plot and starts off with King's usual dark mastery and... Lisez davantage
Published on May 23 2006 by Anne Williams

5.0 out of 5 stars Well, a movie will be made about this story next year !
Loved the book. The story was very Kingian and lents itself well
to what most of us endure every day: Cellular users poisoning our lives. Lisez davantage
Published on April 12 2006 by Pierre Desjardins

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