Cell?

[Rabid Assassin]

cell is one of my favorite Stephen king novels, but I do not know to many people who like cell. I was wandering what everybody thinks of it?

[Srbo]

Didn`t like it at all.
One of his worst works, IMO.

[staropeace]

Loved it....one of my favs along with Insomnia

[Danivan]

I liked it. A lot. I thought it was fresh and fast paced.

[Mistangelique]

I liked it, but in a different way than I love most King books. Usually it's his characters I fall in love with, but with Cell it was the atmosphere.

[scratchesass]

Just so happens I'm starting my 1st reread. Methinks it's good enough for me!

[Bluey Lunger]

one read went one way, the next went the other. i'm acclimated to it now and enjoy the story.

[crazycrashink]

I was really excited for this because I'm a zombie freak and I was not disappointed!!! I found the characters marvelous, endearing, and realistic!
AWSS ..... Insomnia is definitely at the top of my SK list :)

[shawshank99]

loved it one of my favs

[Cowboy]

I agree with Danivan, it was fast paced. I enjoyed reading it and have suggested it to several other folks.

[Leighjavu]

I got a wee tangled at the end , I still favor Needful Things. I was excited to see
Cell at the bookstore, the first Novel released after Sai's accident..Cell was proof
that my favorite author is no quitter!

[DelvianBlue]

I didn't like it either. I hate the way he decided to end it because I don't like those kinds of endings. I'm also a big animal person, so reading the beginning about people losing their minds and torturing their animals did it for me. I almost didn't read past chapter 1 because of that. I saw too much of that in real life when I worked at an animal shelter.

[nomadnyc]

I enjoyed it as well. I will agree that it is not one of his strongest works but still had some memorable moments. For me it felt that the second half of the book was not as good as the first but overall the experience was fun.

[SebastiaanZ]

I like the ending. I liked the book. It is one of the few books that's on my re-read list.

I do think there is something of generation gap showing in the way SK and younger people (like me) look at technology.

[bopropadop]

I didn't like it the first time because I didn't think SK spent enough time elaborating on things - people, places, mood, etc - like he usually does.

I changed my mind after a recent re-read. It's a really good horror story. It's fast paced, has lots of creep factor, and offers an ambiguous ending that will make you ponder the possibilities. Can't ask for much more from an SK novel.

[Noelani]

I just read Cell about a couple of months ago and found it really good. I felt King was back to his roots with this one. There was one thing that bummed me out (which I won't spoil for those who haven't read it yet) but overall it was a good novel.

[jack12k8]

It was ok..it at least exceeded my expectations...a little bit of The Stand model to it on obviously a more limited scale.

[Poetrychic222]

I love it

[marew1]

I found it a quick read and kept my interest.

[sessions728]

Loved it all the way up to the end. I felt that it just kind of left me hanging.

[mrsrodman]

I just finished Cell about a week ago. I didn't like it as much as some of the other King that I've read, but I thought it was a good book. I am also a big fan of the zombie genre, so I really liked the way the story played with the conventions of the genre.

Part of the zombie (or really any kind of post-apocalyptic type of scenario) genre that I like is watching the way the survivors interact among themselves and their new world. In Cell, I felt that King painted a very vivid picture of that.

I'm on the fence about the upcoming (maybe? if they get around to it) Eli Roth directed adaptation. It'll be interesting to see if they can capture that world without making it too gruesome like "Hostel".

[crestfallen49]

Cell is still one of my favorite King books. The ending does leave a bit to be desired, but overall I thought it was awesome. As a huge fan of Romero's zombie films, it was a bit like coming home :)

[babynike]

I loved Cell I've read it 3 times!

[thepunisher82]

I don't feel that "Cell" is one of King's best, but I really enjoyed the book and I actually did like the end. I don't know how to do a spoiler tag, so I won't discuss why and ruin it for everyone. (me=noob)

[sam peebles]

Really enjoyed Cell. Devoured it in two days, although it is fast-paced and didn't feel like typical King to me. I'm from Massachusetts, and it was fun to read Boston getting torn apart.

Supposedly the movie deal with Eli Roth has fallen through, and he will not be directing Cell anytime in the near-future.

[Froglady]

I liked "Cell" a lot, but can't help thinking that Mr King had been inspired by all the zombie films made during the last couple of years. It strongly reminded me of films like Dawn of the Dead or 28 Days Later (good zombie movies, by the way). What I found a bit unusual for the "typical" Stephen King-novel was that everything started happening so early on in the book, without any in-depth introduction of the main characters and so on. So, if you get bored by long introductions, this is a great read for you!

/Marie

[Froglady]

Really enjoyed Cell. Devoured it in two days, although it is fast-paced and didn't feel like typical King to me. I'm from Massachusetts, and it was fun to read Boston getting torn apart.

Supposedly the movie deal with Eli Roth has fallen through, and he will not be directing Cell anytime in the near-future.

What a shame about the film, I was looking forward to it!

[Born In Sin]

I really liked it. I thought it was more like his older works. I couldn't put it down!

[Soil of a Man's Heart]

I thought it was realy good. I don't know wjy people don't like it. It is very fast paced....and that is the main reason i like it :)

[johnny39]

I liked it.

To me, it was The Stand Lite, with Zombies.

A fun read. Nothing to criticize deeply.

[sessions728]

Thought it was a great book. The ending just did'nt set right with me.

[BlackThorn]

Dude, if King needed me to answer the phone, I'd be on it in a heartbeat.

If God needed me to answer the phone, I'd say "make me".

Anyways, Cell was amazing. I was a little annoyed when the zombies started group learning, because I was a lot more scared when we didn't know what the hell was going on, and anywhere those phoners were you had to worry about getting your face bashed in with whatever blunt (or sharp, or... fuzzy?) weapon was around.

Ooooooo, and it seriously gave me wood to think about watching someones life get flushed away, by having a phone too close to their head.

I'm right with Clay in never being able to forget pixie light smashing into that pole, and laughing through a bent nose and chin soaked in bloody teeth. And that power suit woman... would have been totally hooked on my sexuality, whether she rejected or responded to it fully, she would have at least been sickeningly aware. (man she thinks provides enough or not) Sorry babe, it's my curse. ;)

Hehe, I couldn't smoke dope for about six years there, because of an extreme anxiety condition and needing to go to the hospital every time I puffed even a hit, because I'd feel like I honestly couldn't breathe. I still hung out with all my druggie friends though, and whenever they used to offer me hits, I'd use 'Cell' as a good visual example of what I would do if I smoked some of the sickness they always passed in their glass bubblers. "No thanks... if I hit that, you'd see me claw my face off screaming while I made twisted gutteral noises slaughtering everything in my path..." Hehe. Plus, I always got excited about how King invoked the story into my backyard. ;)

[strange]

I did like it even though it was a sort of "zombie" style book. My friend gave it 2 me and said read it because its SK best...I read it...It's not his best, but its a great book. the only problems i had was the zombie style thing going on because its bee done to death but it was worth reading because of the oringal take on it.

[JRLauer]

Yeah, I liked it. I didn't think it was the best book Sai King ever wrote, but it was good nonetheless.

[davidbo32]

I liked the idea of insanity spreading through cell phones and the end of the world scenario, almost like The Stand. But apart from that, I didn't really enjoy it.

[moonhoney2]

I loved the way it jumped right into the action within the first few pages. Very exciting! I was not thrilled with the end. I expected more given how it started out.

I'll have to reread it to see if my opinion changes.

[Rabid Assassin]

Yeah I didn't really like the end either! The thing I did like though is the new take on zombies because they werent technically zombies they werent the walking dead the had all of there values and basically deevolved into animals!

[Cognac]

Hmmmmm, still up in the air. Give me a reread.

[ifsogirl88]

I just finished it and loved it! I would have liked to understand a little bit better what caused the Pulse and why, though...

[Perse Jr.]

I liked it, but in a different way than I love most King books. Usually it's his characters I fall in love with, but with Cell it was the atmosphere.

The imagery really got me too. I could just imagine what the air was like at night while the gang traveled, etc.

Cell was fantastic. A super-fast read with an intense beginning that hooked me instantly.

[irisahart]

cell was very exciting and kept my attention to the fullest but i was upset with the ending. will there be a cell 2? i need to know what happened!:eek2: i cant live not knowing what happened!

[Matticus]

SK has mentioned in an interview that...

the reboot worked

However, I am not sure I needed that. It's like the original end to The Mist, fine by me.

[DreamScape]

I loved this one as well. Okay so it didn't have the ending everyone enjoyed, he left it to us, his readers to interpret and decide.

[Wendy Capps]

:smile2:I Loved "Cell". Classic King!!! A movie is a must. I was so happy to see a new book, since "The Talisman" and "The Black House".:love:

[Merlsmom]

I liked it but am just now getting to where I can use my cell phone with a little shiver going up my spine. :)

[mae_west]

I liked it, but in a different way than I love most King books. Usually it's his characters I fall in love with, but with Cell it was the atmosphere.

Yah, me too. I still like the book but then I am a die hard fan and will read everything SK writes just to see what he has to say.

[K~N~W]

I thought it was okay but then again i do read a lot and it would have been better if i had more time.:sleepy:

[terribilini]

awesome. awesome all the way through. it was a little shorter than most sk books but i think it did that story justice. ecco homo insanus. f*#ckin awesome.

[tempest]

I'll admit I was in a SK drought when I read 'CELL'. And even though I had just graduated from college and was 'fiction starved', I loved this story and would highly recommend it.

There was a lot more meaning in this story then most people have commented on or discoved. I loved the ending-but it might actually be another beginning :smile2:

[ShadowtheDragon]

I'm definitely a zombie fan, and I thought this book was great. Classic zombie story with a Stephen King touch.

[kingsthebest]

I didn't like it the first time. But I liked it the second time around.

[Guin]

To appreciate King's excellent ear for the blue-collar dialect. The few lines of dialogue Beer Keg Guy has with Clay are pitch-perfect and should win some sort of award. "Roaming minutes. The **** are those?" I can hear it as if I was standing in that parking lot in Malden.

[constantreader85]

I liked it. read it twice and I dont own a mobile(cell) phone. after reading cell:wow:

[JayneH]

I quite liked it ! different to his earlier works but thats what I like about him - he writes in a totally unique way each time so you never know what you are going to get from one novel to the next....

Its why I can never read Koonz (always the same storyline !)

[michal]

Didn't like it much. It felt to me as if it was a short story that over expanede its own capacities and was never deep or thorough enough for a real novel. Most of Mr King's novels elaborate on people, characters and the events that brought them to be who they are. Cell was just a bit.. bland.

[Sinbad]

Absolutely LOVED it! :D Especially the characters, I think they were written and brought to life wonderfully. Awesome book :)

[kandy]

I loved it until page 449. Then it completely turned into a massive disappointment. And I'm still bummed.

[GBPack1]

I really liked it. Agree with others that it reminded me of The Stand a little bit. Not my favorite SK novel, but definitely worth reading in my opinion.

[Denise Marsden]

I found the beginin,g of 'Cell' hard to take, I found it a little o.t.t when everybody started to tare into each other. I soon began to warm to the story and the magic of the characters as usual I found captivating. The result of this story has me very cautious with my cell phone and I only use it for emergencies and texting!!!!!!!!

[East Texas]

I loved Cell but have to admit it was indeed like a light version of The Stand. Then again I think The Stand is my favorite of SK's works.

[3dfan]

I also liked the idea - cell phones make of people zombies (cool!) but it looks like Stand, you are right

[The Outsider]

Fast-paced, gruesome details, plenty of action, but also plenty of emotion, and always the wonderfully developed characters that you hat to see go, and I always love to see all the little references and such in King's works and be able to identify what they are. This was definitely one of my favorites, don't know what's not to like. I love zombies and post apocalyptic and horror, so there ya go.

[M-O-O-N SPELLS MY NAME]

Not one of my favs, but still an ok book.....the description of the pandamonium immediately after the pulse is one of my favorite parts of any sk book!

[SereneShadow]

I wouldn't call it his best work, but it's definitely exciting and fast-paced. It's about the only "zombie" book I've been able to tolerate, too.

[Countrygirl_sass]

I LUVED this book!!! Just finished it yesterday.

I felt like we don't know enough about the human brain to know whether this could really happen or not. Really?? And also it got me to thinking about how human beings feel about "different" people. And really its all survival of the fittest I suppose. The phoners may have had some neat tricks, but in the end they didn't have the ability to think, atleast not yet.

[AnnekoMartian]

One of my favourite books, period.

Before reading Cell, I often neglected my cell phone for ages, leaving it at home or letting the battery run down, much to my mother's chagrin, because I had a creeping and difficult to explain hatred for the device.

After reading Cell I kept it turned off and far away from me on purpose, with the feeling that I was part of some secret club now that understood how horrible these deviced could truly be.

I use it when absolutely necessary now-- it's better than walking home at night-- but every so often I catch myself looking at it and thinking 'what if...?'

Constantly Reading,
Anneko Martian

[JRM]

I just finished the book last night. It was decent. I loved the beginning and the last 100 pages (though the ending left me confused). I just felt the middle dragged on for too long; getting from point A to point B; point B to point C; point C to point D, etc. Overall entertaining, but it could have been better.

[pseudosomething]

I thought the pacing and tone were great. It read more like a Bachman book, though.

[Nabila]

I loved Cell. I don't like zombies. They look messy and make a lot of mess. But I never thought of the phoners in Cell as zombies even when they were at the phone crazies stage. Zombies are just re-animated corpses. The phoners were alive when they were violated by technology crazies.

The scenes between Tom and his cat, Clay and the elderly phoner and the left-over ham, and Jordan's revenge were some of my favourites.

And my favourite quote by the fabulous Ms Alice Maxwell. " At least we did something!" she shouted after them. " What did you do? Just what the f*** did you do?"

They're all fabulous and huggable.:biggrin2:

[inspired-writer,tyler]

Amazing story in my eyes, b/c think of it, what if something like that happened. But my favorite part of the book, is the last sentence of the book when he is talking to his son, but just plain and simple, one of my favorites.
PS would love to see a movie come from this.

[inspired-writer,tyler]

I loved the book, b/c think about what if that really happened, my favorite part of the book, is the very last sentence when he was talking to his son.

[randallFlaggfan1]

I loved it, too. I particularly enjoyed Cell's fast-pace and the fact that it doesn't drag on (for it certainly could have.) At the same time, I wanted a longer novel. As usual, King's characters compel the reader to know more about them, and-in turn-forces the novel to its inevitable end.

[FirstEdition]

I read it when it first came out, and enjoyed it. Surely not the best of his writings, but I liked the way it was laid out.

[amcbride]

I liked Cell, I really thought King did a good job with allowing the reader connect with the situation and the surroundings, it kind of had a "what if" factor in it. I read this book a couple years ago, so a re-read may be in my plans.

[hapijoyo]

I enjoyed the story, it sort of gave me the heebie-jeebies. After all, do we really know what cellular waves might really do to us? The common concensus for years was that electricity won't hurt you as long as you don't touch it, but now they know that high power lines can cause power waves that affect people. I guess everyone thinks if you can't see something, it doesn't exist. It's not far fetched at all to think that someone could subliminally affect us through cellular communication. They do it on TV all the time.

[davidracz]

I didn't really like it.

[Roou*]

this book! when i was reading it i was so nervious and biting my nails :P, and yeah i agree i don't love the characters, but the atmosphere wow! >.<