"Cell" by Stephen King
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On October 1st, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. He's just landed a comic book deal that might finally enable him to support his family by making art instead of teaching it. He's already picked up a gift for his long-suffering wife, and he knows just what he'll get for his boy Johnny. Why not a little treat for himself? Clay's feeling good about the future. That changes in a hurry. The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse, and the delivery method is a cell phone. Everyone's cell phone. Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization's darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature...and then begins to evolve. There are one hundred and ninety-three million cell phones in the United States alone. Who doesn't have one? Stephen King's utterly gripping, gory, and fascinating novel doesn't just ask the question "Can you hear me now?" It answers it with a vengeance.
3 Words... ABSOLUTELY KICK ASS!!!! This is a book where my commute listening was not enough. Not only would I stay in my car some extra time after I got home... but I sat in my car, in my garage, after the kids went to bed and listened while having a cigar. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK and can't wait for the movie (coming in 2007 with Eli Roth (the twisted fuck who wrote and directed Hostel) at the helm) but then again, I'm a sucker for a good zombie story... even if these aren't your "normal" every day zombies.
I gave the production 3 stars because there were several points in the narration that for some reason or another was redubbed with someone else's voice. A bit distracting, yes... but it didn't ruin the flow of this nail biting story.
Author: Stephen King
Narrator: Campbell Scott
Running Time: 12 hours and 29 min.
Book Rating: *****
Production: ***
(out of 5 stars)
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