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Cell
Author: Stephen King

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Publisher: Scribner
Book Type: Hardcover
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ISBN-13: 9780743292337 - ISBN-10: 0743292332
Publication Date: 1/24/2006
Pages: 384


Other Versions of this Book: Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Audio CD (Unabridged)

Book Description:
There's a reason cell rhymes with hell.

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.

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Top Member Book Reviews

Leah (VeganFreak) wrote on 7/8/2007...

7 member(s) found this review helpful.

I don't read much horror and I haven't been a big King fan in ten or fifteen years, but I did enjoy Cell.

I was surprised by how well written it was and I was hooked by the second page. It was exciting and made me want to keep reading it, because I just had to know what was going to happen to the characters.

I wasn't crazy about where it ended and I felt like there could have been a little more to the story, but it was good.

As I'm sure you can guess by the pool of blood on the cover, this was gory; although, I did not think it was scary.

A. J. C. (Bibliocrates) wrote on 10/10/2007...

4 member(s) found this review helpful.

I know many Stephen King fans were disappointed with this novel, but I really enjoyed it. I was immediately captivated by the story. I may have liked it better if the cause of all the devastation was explained, but King chose to keep his readers guessing with this one, which was fine with me. The ending was great, left me wondering, don't want to give anything away.

Angelique B. (cozynblue) wrote on 5/24/2007...

4 member(s) found this review helpful.

Awesome book. Stephen King at his best. I didn't want it to end.

JENNIFER B. wrote on 3/20/2007...

4 member(s) found this review helpful.

I always knew cell phones were a curse on mankind!Now I am sure. Zombies gore blood orphaned children. Stephen king at his most horrifying. Reminds me of some of his earlier works where man's unthinking actions lead to horrifying consequensces.

Karina R. (catcanerican) wrote on 5/5/2007...

3 member(s) found this review helpful.

King's way of writing always manages to make you feel like you are there.

Dawn A. (dawnatwell) wrote on 4/17/2007...

3 member(s) found this review helpful.

Enjoyed this book though it did give me pause to use my cell afterwards.

Natalie T. (that70sgirl) wrote on 3/18/2007...

3 member(s) found this review helpful.

One of the best King books in a long time. I finished it in a day and a half because I HAD too.

June C. wrote on 2/6/2007...

3 member(s) found this review helpful.

Loved this book! Read it in 2 sittings, it was very interesting and almost believable!

Carole W. (Dreammer) wrote on 1/17/2007...

3 member(s) found this review helpful.

This book is Cell Phone pulse that does some real weird things to the people living in the United States. This is one of the weirdest Stephen King books I have read. It made me not want to use my cell phone for more than a month.

Dana (daedelys) wrote on 5/13/2009...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

This book is definitely classic King. I don't want to spoil the end for anybody, but it definitely keeps you thinking after you've closed the book. I did feel it started a little slow, but then did the usual thing King's books do, and picked up so you can't put it down. After all these years, I'm still amazed at the way this man can write. A must read for fans and anyone who's wants to be freaked out by their cell phone.


Please Rate these Book Reviews

Marissa G. (quinnmc79) - Temple, TX wrote on 11/4/2009...


Liked this book, didn't care for the ending

Tonya M. (heyteacher-tpm) wrote on 10/18/2009...



A great King read - fast-paced, great inner and out-loud dialogue and (as always) that ever-present fear that is too crazy to be real but also just not-crazy enough to be creepy. Enjoyable main character and a very entertaining read.

Angela (angiepants) - Walnut Creek, CA wrote on 9/26/2009...


loved the story, but i wasn't satisfied with the last part of the book. felt this way about buick 8 as well, but... still a pretty good story.

creepy as hell and just as gory! can't say my cell phone gave me the creeps after, but certainly makes you think about how reliant on technology we are.

Georgiann H. wrote on 9/18/2009...


cell kind of makes you not want to use your cell phone a lot ever again. stephen king is a great story teller

Michelle M. (chelli70) wrote on 9/17/2009...


Stephen King rocks, but this book just doesn't hold a candle to many of his other works.

TAS S. (VashTi) wrote on 8/14/2009...


Engaging, hard to put down, a page turner. I hated the ambiguous ending, it was almost like he got tired and wasn't sure where or how to end it.

Liza B. (candlelady) wrote on 4/28/2009...


I have a love/hate relationship with books that end like this but sometimes, it just has to end.

This book makes me think of The Stand, in that its like an end of life as we know it type of book. But it was more entertaining and easier to get through than The Stand.

If you liked the Stand you will like this. If you didn't like the Stand, you'll like this better.

I would love for this to be a fleshed out movie/mini series. Like was done with "Stephen Kings: The Shining".

Katherine M. (TheSmartKat34) wrote on 3/25/2009...


Went through the whole book wondering what was going on, waiting and waiting, then it finally gets to explaining something, and King just drops it!!!
I have never been so upset with a book! I don't recomend this one, unless you want to be left with a million questions and no answers.

Megan B. (endersprincess) wrote on 1/13/2009...


So Stephen King tried his hand at a zombie book. It was going really, really well until the usual Stephen King flaw swoops in: his own boredom. The ending was terrible. (More so than most King endings) So if you're looking for a book to occupy your time and keep you intrigued for awhile, this is the book for you. If you're looking to feel satisfied upon completion, I do not recommend this one.

Jill S. (Jill0427) wrote on 12/5/2008...


Good book. I think this is Stephen King's way of looking at The ending of times.


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