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 Cell: A Novel
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ASIN: 1416524517
PR_ID: #110176 | Cell: A Novel (Rated: 18+) Product Type: Book Review Content Rated: ASR Reviewed By: Chri$topher ![View thedecline's Portfolio. [Offline / Private]](http://imgs.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/costumicons/ps-icon-regular-10.gif "View thedecline's Portfolio. [Offline / Private]") Review Creation Date: 10-08-09 8:23pm Review Last Modified: 10-08-09 8:23pm | List Price: $ 9.99
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Summary of this Book... | Clayton Ridell is walking down Boylston Street in Boston on October 1st, at 3:00 pm. He has a bag with an expensive paperweight he just bought for his estranged wife, as a gift for her, and as a sort of celebration of the fact that he will never be poor again. He has just had a comic published that will allow him to get money from making art, rather than teaching it in the schools of rural Maine. For him, everything is suddenly looking up.
Then, at 3:03, it comes crashing down. In that instant, anyone who is talking on a cell phone has their mind completely erased, and the basest, most horrifying instincts at the bottom of the human psyche take over.
A zombie novel for the 21st Century, Cell is several hundred pages of fast paced, often graphic, frequently satirical action. Although some parts of the book aren't all that good, and the science behind the "Pulse" which starts the book's zombie apocalypse is shaky at best (magnets do bad things to computers, the human brain is kind of a computer, magnets must do bad things to brains), it's still a thoroughly enjoyable read.
Except for the freaking ending. | This type of Book is good for... | People who like books about the apocalypse, or books about zombies. Make no mistake, it is very different from most of Stephen King's writing, including The Stand. | I especially liked... | The characters. Despite having a lot of action, the book is very much character driven, and you grow to like the three main characters shortly after they are introduced. | I didn't like... | The ending. Quite frankly, it is a let down. It couldn't have been much better; zombie stories might end with the main characters flying off into the sunset, but what happens when they touch down? Still, that said, after reading a fairly lengthy books, it feels like there needs to be more. | I recommend this Book because... | It hearkens back to old zombie movies, like Dawn of the Dead, and the other Romero films of the sixties, seventies, and eighties. Cell, for anyone who wants to read it, is more like a modern re-imagining of one of those films than it is like most other Stephen King novels. |
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