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I just finished listening to the unabridged versions of the book "Cell" by Stephen King. I'm happy I got it from the library and didn't pay for it. I was hoping for a little satire or humor related to individual's and society interaction with the cell phone. - nothing. There was so much opportunity here to for satire, humor, and to lament the decline of good communication amoung people.
Stop reading here if you don't want to know the story line.
At the very beginning of the book the main character of the book is waiting on line for ice cream. A few people on line with him talk on their cell phone and then begin to act crazy - think Night of the Living Dead. That is it for the rest of the book. The main character joins with some others to fiend his family and go to a suposed safe zone. However the "phone crazies" have developed telepathic abilities and are directing people to the safe zone to absorbe them into the "flock". The main characters kill the "flock" with a bomb and go to wait out the winter to kill the rest of the "phone crazies" who again are just like zombies. Again after the cell phone "pulse" there was no real connection between cell phones and people. The literary devise of a cell phone to turne people into zombies could have been anything - food, music, solar flair, phase of the moon.
This book is so formulaic - a strange occurance changes some to zombies and the nomal people try to survive.
Stop reading here if you don't want to know the story line.
At the very beginning of the book the main character of the book is waiting on line for ice cream. A few people on line with him talk on their cell phone and then begin to act crazy - think Night of the Living Dead. That is it for the rest of the book. The main character joins with some others to fiend his family and go to a suposed safe zone. However the "phone crazies" have developed telepathic abilities and are directing people to the safe zone to absorbe them into the "flock". The main characters kill the "flock" with a bomb and go to wait out the winter to kill the rest of the "phone crazies" who again are just like zombies. Again after the cell phone "pulse" there was no real connection between cell phones and people. The literary devise of a cell phone to turne people into zombies could have been anything - food, music, solar flair, phase of the moon.
This book is so formulaic - a strange occurance changes some to zombies and the nomal people try to survive.