Just Finished Cell

[Sms231]

After reading Lisey's Story (and disliking it), I was hoping for a hit with Cell, and I was NOT disappointed. There was action from the 3rd page to the end. It was a roller coaster ride that I thoroughly enjoyed. It almost played out in my head like a movie, which I hope they get to the screen one day.

The only thing that I disliked about the book, is the origin of the "Pulse" was never fully explained. Being a techie and a geek, I'm curious in the fictional technology used to create such a thing to wipe memories back to their most primal, and activate the telepathic and kinetic abilities of the phone-crazies.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

I believe the latest is that it's to be a 4 hour miniseries for HBO.

Yay!

Long days and pleasant nights

[GBPack1]

Hi,

I believe the latest is that it's to be a 4 hour miniseries for HBO.

Yay!

Long days and pleasant nights

Good news! I hope this works out - and is done well!

[MightierThanTheSword]

The Cell was definitely a good read. Took me all of 2 days to finish it. Cant really say to much about it without giving something away. I love the fact that it is a page turner, you cant seem to put it down because you cant wait to see what happens next. Oh Eli Roth just dropped himself as the director of the movie just about a month ago, he was the director of Hostel - I only know that because the movie was such a good laugh. He dropped it because he states there was a difference of opinion between him and the studio.

[Sinbad]

Really happy to hear you enjoyed it just as much as me by the sounds of it! :)

[ama_li]

Well I have read the Cell but i don't like it much.

[Drawn to Ka-tet]

I liked Cell. I've seen those flesh eating zombies roaming the streets of Malden.
That's the thing about zombies, they can never be content to be vegetarians.
Always finding some excuse to eat someone's face. So uncouth!
And then, the littering- don't even get me started on that!

So, who started the Pulse? The CIA? the brainiacs at MIT? Al Gore? George Bush? Sprint? AT&T?

Long days and pleasant nights.

[aliphil]

this is one of my fav sk books i loved it and wouldlove to see it on screen

[KJ Norrbotten]

It is a pretty good book, not one of my favorites though. My copy is a Hodder&Stoughton(UK), with the sleeve bottom line "He does not not own a cell phone". Should I write a book about "Evil landline Phone out of Hell"? Not a good idea, but perhaps you got my point.

[plgordon]

The cell would make my top 10 list of SK Books (Top 17 if you were to include all of DT individually) I live just south of Boston and had no problem visualizing the opening seen. That made it all the more real for me. Although I haven't read a King book I didn't like (with the possible exception of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon) The violence and horror of this novel reminded me alot of why I love to Read Sai King.

[wally wonder]

network television and the education establishment has been prepping us for a "pulse" for years. whatever the fashionable ideology of the day is, we're all fully inoculated with it, able to repeat the catechism, with nary a hitch in the telling, unlike the story that is begun at one end of the circle only to become something entirely different with each passing. that, or something in our cherrios.

[Robster]

The only thing that I disliked about the book, is the origin of the "Pulse" was never fully explained. Being a techie and a geek, I'm curious in the fictional technology used to create such a thing to wipe memories back to their most primal, and activate the telepathic and kinetic abilities of the phone-crazies.[/QUOTE]

I just don't get it. Do you think if such a thing happened, with the majority of the population dead, do you would ever find out the true origin in your life time? A Geek in a garage, Terrorists, North Korea, Aliens - Does it really matter?

[nicklove09]

:oo:Cell was awesome! I think about it every time my cellphone rings.
I read it along time ago, i remember the football field(sorry if it wasn't exactly a football field) but all the zombies...BLAH so scary!

[Leland]

I'd like to see it on TV too. I tried to read it but really struggled and gave up in the end. I keep promising to go back to it but never have so far.

[thebarbster24]

I've just finished Cell last night after reading the Eyes of the Dragon. Definitely a huge improvement. Probably not one of my faves but a great and enjoyable read nevertheless.

[Audaciousfox]

It matters.

[DancingCorpse]

I think it matters too, this is one of the reasons i don't know whether i 'like' Cell. It is well written and interesting obviously or i wouldn't have finished it. Though the fact that we are not given an explanation and the ending is just kind of 'done' so abruptly lets the book down for me. I know King has done this before, with better tales, but this just makes Cell more difficult for me to really like. It would make the tale more rounded and have more substance if we are given more to the Pulse in my opinion. The Stand worked so much more because of the background we get to the cause of the predicament, i feel the mystery aspect of the unexplained is powerful naturally, though with the nature of this particular story, it is not executed as effectively.

[steve-w]

I recently read Cell and from page three I was gripped. Couldn't put it down, although like other readers I would've liked to know more about what caused the pulse. Didn't spoil my enjoyment though.

[JRM]

Yeah, that was one of the things that disappointed me as well. Overall I enjoyed the book, but it's probably among my least favorites.

[Rand]

I recently read Cell and from page three I was gripped. Couldn't put it down, although like other readers I would've liked to know more about what caused the pulse.

I can understand feeling that way, but uncovering the truth about the pulse wouldn't have been easy for the characters we followed, and sticking someone into the story who was part of whatever triggered it would probably have come off as contrived.

I like it being an open question that people can fill in their own answers for. Was it terrorists? A government experiment in remote killing or mind control? Sunspots, or some technological glitch?

Or is it undefined even in the author's mind, and only presented as a strong social comment about how we're all being changed every day by the technology we're so quick to accept?

[GNTLGNT]

I thought Cell was spot on-since most people lurch & shamble about with them stuck in their ears on a daily basis...:laugh:

[msouza78]

I think BP caused the pulse, with help from Microsoft, Wal-mart and Verizon.

[CCAL]

I agree with Rand. Why does someone in the story have to be a specialized cia operative or doctor conducting mind control experiments...someone like that just happens to live next door or main characteer bumps into along the way...nope sounds too contrived-like a perfect jigsaw puzzle piece left laying around to fill that last place.

[JellybeanJay]

I just finished this book the other day and I loved it!!

Really didn't matter to me that the origin of The Pulse was never explained. I liked the open ending because it left more to the readers imagination. When I am able to come to my own conclusions at the end of a book it seems to haunt me a little more, the open ending makes it a little more real.

Loved it, loved it, loved it. Do I really need to say it again :laugh:

[Shoesalesman]

This was the last SK book I read about two months ago. I was hooked from the first page; fantastic story, plot filled with pure mayhem.

[Reader Chris]

:biggrin2:
After reading Lisey's Story (and disliking it), I was hoping for a hit with Cell, and I was NOT disappointed. There was action from the 3rd page to the end. It was a roller coaster ride that I thoroughly enjoyed. It almost played out in my head like a movie, which I hope they get to the screen one day.

The only thing that I disliked about the book, is the origin of the "Pulse" was never fully explained. Being a techie and a geek, I'm curious in the fictional technology used to create such a thing to wipe memories back to their most primal, and activate the telepathic and kinetic abilities of the phone-crazies.

I agree I love technical trivia like that.

[friend of Oye]

I'm hoping that there is a continuation book there . What caused the pulse? How did Johnny fair? And did Clay ever hook back up with the others?

[wally wonder]

After reading Lisey's Story (and disliking it), I was hoping for a hit with Cell, and I was NOT disappointed. There was action from the 3rd page to the end. It was a roller coaster ride that I thoroughly enjoyed. It almost played out in my head like a movie, which I hope they get to the screen one day.

The only thing that I disliked about the book, is the origin of the "Pulse" was never fully explained. Being a techie and a geek, I'm curious in the fictional technology used to create such a thing to wipe memories back to their most primal, and activate the telepathic and kinetic abilities of the phone-crazies.

far as the origin of the pulse goes...my theory is that that Cleveland Casual guy....from the dark half i believe...and Leland Gaunt....well, they got their signals mixed up, there was a kind of convergence and them maxwell's hammer did a number...this all coincided w/some really freakish and bad-timing sun spot activity....resulting in....the pulse....

that or one of the neighbor kids had the bass turned up too high, way too high when he was passing an undisclosed location...things happen. so it goes.

[pawnman]

I said upon finishing Under the Dome that I was going to get Duma Key and Cell. Well I wound up getting Cell and two Joe Hill books (Heart Shaped Box and Horns.) I really like Cell so far.:cool2:

[Christiane17]

I had a few isssues with this novel the first time I started to read it, but I gave it a second chance, and I'm glad I did. It was great. The ending was somehow a little drastic, but overall I think it was meant to be that way. I did enjoy Clay, Tom, Jordan and Alice. Now I should try to remind myself that my cell phone is just a cell phone, not a zombie builder!!!! ;)

[Br00ksInTexas]

I bet it will be a lot like "The Happening" or "Crazies" both extremely creepy.

[amous2b]

Funny you should mention "movie". I've made a habit of waiting until I've read the book before I watch a King movie. I have fun making comparisons. Is there anybody, besides me, that has been patiently waiting to see if Cell would be a hit in theaters?