What a great take on a modern zombie story. Mr. King did a great job as he usually does. The ending left one wondering if it was a happy ending or not. ( )

Great action packed horror which will keep you reading till the blurb.

On a beautiful October day in Boston, Clay Riddell, an artist from Maine, is on top of the world because he has just sold a graphic novel to a publisher. Little does he realize that the world as he knows it is about to change. A "pulse" has been sent through cell phones that turns anyone using their cell phone into zombies. Clay doesn't have a cell phone and he watches in disbelief as people around him attack each other and even themselves. Clay soon hooks up with Tom McCourt and fifteen year old Alice Maxwell, who were both unaffected by the Pulse. Clay is anxious to find his wife and son, so the three head out to Maine to find them. They have a long, strange journey ahead of them.

After several non-horror novels, Stephen King returns to horror with "Cell" and what a return it is. The "Pulse" hits just a few pages into the book and it's non-stop action from that point forward. "Cell" is told entirely from Clay's point of view and readers are privy to his thoughts only, so his is the best defined character, although I could picture Tom very well also. King's strong point is his story telling, reading his books you can picture what his happening, as if you were watching a movie instead of reading a book. It's the little touches that make his writing special - a street littered with discarded cell phones; an abandoned child's sneaker; a pregnant zombie falling on her stomach; a hamburger feast in the middle of chaos - all these stay with the reader long after the novel is over.

This being a Stephen King novel, readers can't predict what will happen and just when you think you know where the novel is going, "Cell" has some unexpected twists, starting with the visit to Gaiten Academy. The novel has plenty of gore mixed in with King's trademark humor. And while many readers will complain about the (non-) ending, I liked it.

"Cell" may not be his best novel, but it's one of his better ones and a must read for Stephen King fans. ( )

The most recent I've read by King. Kind of scared me actually - I do appreciate how he incorporates our modern society into his science fiction and makes it almost believable... ( )

First off, I've never been so glad that I don't own a cell phone! Secondly, Stephen King has penned another gruesome winner, going back to his days of blood and gore. CELL starts off with the Pulse, where everyone who owns a cell phone answers a call and subsequently goes psycho. Back to their basic days of kill or be killed, these are slobbery creatures with no morals, emotions, or human qualities besides the desire to destroy.

Enter Clayton Riddell, a man happy to have never given in to the need to purchase a cell phone, who watches the people on the street of Boston go murderous. He hooks up with Tom, another "normie" and Alice, who watched her mother go crazy and kill a cab-driver, to escape the city. Clay is heading home to Kent's Pond, Maine, to check on the well-being of his estranged wife, Sharon (who doesn't own a cell phone) and his son Johnny (who does).

What follows is the groups trials and trevails as they're inevitably pushed towards Kashwak, the NO-FO zone. You'll have to read CELL to figure out what this means, but believe me, it's well worth your time and effort!

Stephen King has returned to his days of blood and gore, guts and more blood, and the result is a winner. If you love horror, or King in particular, you won't go wrong picking up a copy of this latest winner. ( )