The ending of Cell

[bex35]

Hi
I'm new to the site and I've no doubt that this will have been discussed before.
But a year and a half after reading this book I've got to ask about the ending. Did it end? Please could someone enlighten me. Is it so obvious I missed it or is it more left to the reader to decide.
Please don't think this has put me off King. It was my first King read and I've never looked back :smile2:
Also, I am an ex Literature student and have feel ashamed of asking the above question, but I've racked my brains for quite some time and now have come to accept that I have to know!

[Moderator]

The reboot worked.

[PLx81]

only kinda is what thought

[bex35]

Hooray! That was my instinct. :smile2:
Thanks alot.

[vivazebool]

I think it was the end. It was a King-style hanger.

[Derwood]

i wasn't a fan of the ending. it did seem pretty abrupt. any movie adaptation of this would have to have a stronger ending

[marew1]

:smile2: Hello and welcome to the board. Happy reading and posting. Cell ended abruptly but that is not necessarily the norm.

[Flood1980]

only kinda is what thought

What?

[staropeace]

It had to end somewhere....anything thing else would be anti-climatic. I loved the way Steve used the words...fo fo for you you or whatever...it fit nicely together and was awful sad and hopeful.....it was effective...

He ended it with hope....the best place to end it.

[BornToRun]

Stephen even confirmed on his website that the reboot worked .

[CallerIQ223]

the end if you dont know of the reboot thing is sorta a cliffhanger. i didnt quite understand it till i found that out.

[lorelei_lou]

Oh, it worked?

I thought it was left for us to decide, but I figured things would have all gone a bit 'Pet Semetary' and that it'd be a turn for the worse. Shows what a pessimist I am, I suppose...

[staropeace]

If MsMod said it worked then it worked darn it! Lol,she probably got that from the horse's mouth....errrrrrrr....or the authors mouth.:biggrin2:

[Dark Reader]

Oh cool! I'm glad to read the reboot worked!

[clair]

i have just read it and i think it worked and that clay and his son found the others alive and well

[pagantallie]

thank god the reboot worked - i felt really tortured for that man! as a mother myself i simply cannot imagine losing my son.

[JRLauer]

Stephen King has a message about the ending of cell on the main page of this site.

12:41pm March 24th, 2006:
Regarding Cell...
CELL SPOILER: "Based on the information given in the final third of Cell—I’m thinking about the reversion back toward the norm of the later phone crazies—it seems pretty obvious to me that things turned out well for Clay’s son, Johnny. I don’t need to tell you this, do I?”

-Steve

This is from another thread that's talking about the same thing.

[karend3]

King definitely left the ending to your imagination.

[Insomniak]

I dont give a good **** about endings

[michal]

I wish you wouldn't have told me how it really ended Mr. Mod. Takes out some of the enjoyment I had of the book. Being a pessimist I have a natural born suspicion and at times dislike of "perfectly organized" happy endings. I refer Hoping that it all ended well, not knowing.

[Showtimecircus]

I found the ending brilliant. In my mind i felt the ending was decided by the reader, they chose in their minds what happens to Johnny.

[Lina]

To my mind the ending is really great. It gives us an opportunity to think about the book and to develop our imagination. :)