Cell: A Novel
Jan 2006 · Simon and Schuster
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The next call you take could be your last in this terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller by master storyteller Stephen King!
On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and graphic artist Clayton Riddell is visiting Boston, having just landed a deal that might finally enable him to make art instead of teaching it. But all those good feelings about the future change in a hurry thanks to a devastating phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse.
The delivery method is a cell phone—everyone’s cell phone. Now 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 relentless 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 the way home to his family in Maine, and as he and his fellow refugees make their harrowing journey north, they begin to see the crude signs confirming their direction. A promise of a safe haven, perhaps, or quite possibly the deadliest trap of all…
On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and graphic artist Clayton Riddell is visiting Boston, having just landed a deal that might finally enable him to make art instead of teaching it. But all those good feelings about the future change in a hurry thanks to a devastating phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse.
The delivery method is a cell phone—everyone’s cell phone. Now 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 relentless 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 the way home to his family in Maine, and as he and his fellow refugees make their harrowing journey north, they begin to see the crude signs confirming their direction. A promise of a safe haven, perhaps, or quite possibly the deadliest trap of all…
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28 July 2012
I loved this book. The characters were well developed. Tom was my favorite, I just loved his friendship with Clay. I also loved the father-son relationship between Clay and Jordan. It was cute. It did leave a few questions hanging....actually the ending was just a cliffhanger, period. But that`s where the imagination comes it right? I wrote a few chapters on what I think what would happen after the end of the book. Writing your own ending of something with a cliff hanger is fun
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27 February 2014
I'M STILL READING IT SO MY REVIEW IS BASED ON MY OPINION THUS FAR. NEEDLESS TO SAY TH@ THE FIRST THING I THOUGHT OF WAS...THE NOVEL CAME OUT IN `06... BUT IN `12 IN MIAMI, FL A HAITIAN MAN NAMED RUDY EUGENE DEVOURED A HOMELESS MAN'S ENTIRE FACE; FLESH, EYES, LIPS, EYE LIDS N A FEW TEETH! THE FIRST TIME EVER, A BLK MAN CONSUMED A MAN'S FLESH RAW IN REAL LIFE!! FOR WKS LATER THROUGHOUT THE USA 28 OTHER ZOMBIE LIKE ATTACKS WERE EITHER REPORTED OR CAUGHT ON VIDEO...JUST WOW, THEN WHOAH! I'M A HUGE ZOMBIE FAN.
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6 November 2018
I read this and had a hard time believing Mr. King's name was on it. Cheesy, poorly written, utterly predictable and disappointingly unoriginal...not remotely like the engaging novels we know he can produce. Mr. King has written the best novels I have ever read... this isn't one.
About the author
Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Never Flinch (May 2025), the short story collection You Like It Darker (a New York Times Book Review top ten horror book of 2024), Holly (a New York Times Notable Book of 2023), Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
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