Cell - Stephen King

Excellent

I loved this book, it will have you taking a second glance at your mobile before using it. Seriously, for about two weeks I sent a txt where i usually would hav made the call.
I don't understand how this seems to polarise opinion, it's very entertaining!

Well it's something.

I'm a fan of horror books and mobvies yet I've never read anything by Stephen King till this because I am a die hard Zombie fan. Hearing this was in a similar survivor esque vain I decided to break my King cherry and give it a go.

I think that was a bad idea I went in thinking wow this is Stephen King and therefore it should be good... Turns out I was wrong. I mean that's not to say it's a terrible book far from it, great action sequences, fledhed out characters and some gut churning gore not to mention a few surprises are all present and correct. However while I was reading it just seemed to be very predictable other than a couple of genuine surprises it seems to be by the numbers for the genre. I'm sure if you haven't read anything Zombie/infected/crazies before or in a while this will be ample for your tastes but I wanted something a bit meatier.

A possible issue was I read Simon Clark's Blood Crazy the week before this aswell as Brian Keene's the Rising both of which seem to have been combined into this story and I felt that this was merely a poor attempt to combine those two stories into this one. I'm not saying Stephen King in anyway aimed to do this but it's just the luck that I read those books directly before this one.

My advice is if you're a King fan then this will probably be a great joy to read but if it's a similar plot done better then I would suggest Clark's Bloody Crazy and Keene's The Rising as superior works for the outbreak/survivor genre.

2 weeks of my life i'll never get back

great story, really bad ending. this is the last stephen king book i'll ever clap eyes on. do not wast your time with Cell.

Riveting read

Don't listen to the bad reviews of this book. Stephen King has as always managed to create a plausible story out of pure fantasy. I felt genuinely scared for the characters and couldn't put it down. I loved the concept of mobile phones infecting people and stripping civilisation of everything it had. Money, cars, jobs are no longer important. The only thing that is important is survival and the re-building of society. King shows all sides of human behaviour; strangers bonding to the point of genuine love, others remaining cowardly or selfish. The only criticism of King I have is he has a tendency to go into too much detail and go off on a bit of a tangent. I won't give away the ending but it will say it left me a little open mouthed!

I thought it was excellent but can understand why others wouldnt

There are a lot of bad reviews for this book scrolling down the comment box and far be it me to say those comments are wrong and mine are right because its a matter of opinion so let me clean it up for all those confused about the mixed reviews.
Most of the people who are giving it a bad review mention that they love stephen kings older work and i think i know whats different that they perhaps didn't like in this new one
in stephen kings older work there was a lot of build up and charecterisation throughout most of the book and a spectacual ending which makes you stay up all night reading because after all the charecterization you care about whats happening to the charecters as if they're real people.
In Cell the action starts a few pages in and goes on throughout the book. The charecterisation goes on throughout the book with what drives the charecters. Many of the sub charecters do seem a bit too dimensional and it is not fully explained what "the pulse" actually was apart from charecters speculation and the main plot of the story is what happens after "the puls" where as in stephen kings older books the pulse would have been the last thing to happen and there would be a lot of build up too it
it all depends on what you want from the story. If you want a start from page one and grips you right until the end exciting story then press the order button right now cos this is a book for you however if you think that stephen king has lost his touch, you didnt like dark tower and you prefer a more sophisticated story with charecterisation and description then please do read his older books such as the stand
the thing to remember was that this book was marketed towards a younger audience given its theme and i being seventeen enjoyed it very much and am not affraid of using my phone
i hope this has been helpful