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Cell

By Stephen King

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| Hardcover | 9780743292337

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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 instContinue

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.

Critics

  • CELL

    Boston, primo ottobre. Tutto va bene. E' un luminoso pomeriggio di sole, la gente passeggia nel parco, gli aerei atterrano quasi in orario. Per Clayton Riddell è il più bel giorno della sua vita. In quel preciso istante, il mondo finisce. A milioni, ... (read full critics)

    librierecensioni published on Fri, 3 Dec 2010

  • Cell

    La trama e le recensioni di Cell, romanzo di Stephen King edito da Sperling & Kupfer. Cosa faresti se un bel giorno, proprio quello che fino a un istante prima avresti definito il più bello della tua vita, tutto svanisse? Clayton Riddell si trova in ... (read full critics)

    Qlibri published on Thu, 25 Nov 2010

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  • 2 people find this helpful

    One of his best recent novels and maybe an all-time classic alongside Pet Sematary & The Shining.

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    Stubob72556 said on Feb 17, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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    I've seen better books by Mr. King. You may like it, if you like zombie flicks. Brainsss fresshh brainss...

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    marillion said on May 6, 2007 | Add your feedback

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    I was disappointed.
    The story is not too bad, putting original premises to an age-old tale, but the character development, which usually is one of Stephen King's strengths, is a bit on the weak side. And the ending left me unhappy. Not a terrible novel, but also far from being really good.

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    Marco Piva said on Jan 28, 2010 | Add your feedback

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    Disappointing

    I definitely love King, and this book it's a great one, unless for... its end!
    It's not a proper ending for a book, I could (could, not can) accept it for a short-story, the "endless" one like "The moving finger", but not for a 500-page book!
    I would know how the Pulse started, WHO makes it started, ... (continue)

    I definitely love King, and this book it's a great one, unless for... its end!
    It's not a proper ending for a book, I could (could, not can) accept it for a short-story, the "endless" one like "The moving finger", but not for a 500-page book!
    I would know how the Pulse started, WHO makes it started, and all this kind of things... and it definitely disappointed me this "not-ending" plot.
    I don't know... if he had not know how to explain all that mess, he woulnd't have written about it!

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    Spooky said on Feb 1, 2012 | Add your feedback

  • Interesting take on a quite realistic situation. Really easy to read, very enjoyable if a bit graphic.

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    Valentine said on Jun 4, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • i quit after a few pages: honestly, life is too hard to read terrifying stuff.

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    Elsastella said on May 1, 2010 | 1 feedback

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