Book: Cell

 Book: Cell

Author: Stephen King

Pages: 384

This is my 153rd read for the year

What Amazon Says:

There's a reason cell rhymes with hell.  On October 1, 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 intsead of teaching it.  He's already picked up a small (but expensive) 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 civilzation'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's really no escaping this nightmare.  But for Clay, an arrow points home to Maine, and as he and his fellow regugees make their harrowing journey north they begin to see crude signs confirmingtheir direction.  A promise, perhpas.  Or a threat.

I did not realize after going through my Stephen King list that I had miss an old one.  I saw the Cell movie years ago, but don't remember much about it.  I listened to this book and it made a good audiobook.  It is an interesting story, and a good take on a zombie type trope.  Had a decent ending.

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