- Published: New York : Scribner, 2006.
- Year Published: 2006
- Description: 384 p. ; 24 cm.
- Language: English
- Format: Book
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- 1416524517 (pbk.)
- 0743292332 :
- 9780743292337
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Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological attack. What matters to them is surviving the aftermath. Before long a band of them-"normies" is how they think of themselves-have gathered on the grounds of Gaiten Academy, where the headmaster and one remaining student have something awesome and terrifying to show them on the school's moonlit soccer field. Clearly there can be no escape. The only option is to take them on.
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Generic Stephen King novel.
It starts out with a promising premise: a "Pulse" turns everyone who uses a celphone into a mindless homicidal/suicidal maniac. A few "normies" band together for protection and to find the son of their leader Clay.
Apparently King wasn't happy with his antagonists because they gradually change into something else over the course of the book. Unfortunately they become more bizarre and unbelievable and less interesting. And the leaps of intuition made by the heroes are absurd.
Cell isn't awful but I wouldn't mind having the time I invested in it back either.
Apparently King wasn't happy with his antagonists because they gradually change into something else over the course of the book. Unfortunately they become more bizarre and unbelievable and less interesting. And the leaps of intuition made by the heroes are absurd.
Cell isn't awful but I wouldn't mind having the time I invested in it back either.
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