From international bestseller Stephen King, a high-concept, ingenious and terrifying story about the mayhem unleashed when a pulse from a mysterious source transforms all cell phone users into homicidal maniacs. 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, … 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. A promise, perhaps. Or a threat…
There are 193 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.
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One of King’s best that stayed very much under the radar. I couldn’t put it down & it really gets you to thinking “what if”?
I love all of Kings book !!
Interesting…
Awesome. Creepy, graphic King.
Not my favorite King story. It just didn’t grip and hold me like other King stories. The ending wasn’t satisfactory to me at all.
Watch out! The King of Horror definitely has your number in this all-out shocker that presents a hellish vision of what the world would be like after a mysterious cell phone signal turned most of humanity into homicidal maniacs! And all it would take for you to become one of them was for you to own a cell phone and be unfortunate enough to choose …
Kind of point on right now
I love Stephen King novels, but I thought that there was a little bit too much unnecessary bad language in this one. The story was good but not compelling. All in all, I can’t recommend this book.
Should have been “just” a short story but what do I know.
Very predictable. SK phone it in.
I got this book from Bookmans. Great book Mr. King will have you thinking twice about your cell phone.
Great book from beginning to end I couldn’t put it definitely a must read.
Cell begins with a bang. No, Cell begins with a two-by-four to the chest. It’s a terrifying tale of technophobia and societal dissolution. If you need a good scary book to keep you riveted on your 18-hour flight to Singapore, this is the one.
i read this a long time ago, and i remember it being a good story.