Stephen King - Cell

Pros: Generally good characterization, especially in the peripheral characters; love the evil cell phones
Cons: It can't hold up to The Stand, which basically tells the same story

It's been quite some time since I communed with Stephen King.  As the author who originally showed me the way of the Bloody Knife novel as a teenager I used to eagerly devour everything he wrote.  But, well, I grew up and got busy and he grew ...

Pros: Strong writing, good characterization
Cons: It doesn't have an ending!

I’ve often said that Stephen King just doesn’t know how to write a good ending, and Cell is no different. I would have given this book 5 out of 5 stars had it actually had an ending, but it didn’t. Like Scott Smith’s recent The Ruins, the ...

Pros: great reading, lots of suspense, like a zombie film but better
Cons: very graphic, may be too violent for some

It was a normal day in the city…cabs ran to and fro, dogs ran in the parks with their owners tossing Frisbees for their enjoyment and people lined up for ice cream and sno-cones to alleviate the oppressive summer heat. Clayton Riddell took this all in, ...

Pros: Great writing, vivid imagery, interesting story.
Cons: None.

Stephen King has a way of taking the innocuous and making it scary. It seems that everyone has a cell phone these days...what better vehicle to weave a terror tale around? There have been some other thrillers in the movie theater recently that use cell ...

Pros: Gory Blood soaked story
Cons: Not quite as good as it could be

My guess is, Stephen King doesn’t care much for modern technology-or the people who've created much of what we now rely on for everything in life day to day. In some of his other books, King has created worlds where: Man-made viruses wipe out ...

Pros: Forces you to take a look at your use of a cell phone.....
Cons: You will never look at your cell phone in the same light again.....

Lucky Me I recently got my hands on a copy of Cell from my mom. She is a die-hard Stephen King Fan. Owns every book the man ever wrote... and then some. To my good fortune she ordered one copy too many of this masterpiece. AKA ...

Pros: Best zombie horror story of all time. Great piece of horror.
Cons: Not for the squeamish.

It seems like Stephen King hasn't stopped writing since the debut of his first book except to eat and sleep. When I got Cell last week, I thought that it was his newest book, I didn't even see it come out. I opened it up and saw that it included ...

Pros: A horror story full of suspense and peppered with King's wry humor. Can't beat that!
Cons: Pretty gory, even for the written word.

Clay Riddell has finally done it -- he's sold his comic book artwork for a tidy sum, making his dreams come true. He can't wait to tell his estranged wife Sharon, and his son Johnny-Gee, that their financial worries are over. But on his way home ...

Pros: A true page turner. You won't be able to put it down!
Cons: Leaves you hanging. Audiobook seems to have some problems.

Perhaps Stephen King is growing impatient as he gets older. This book does not mess around. I began listening to the audio version of this book on a short road trip. I was prepared to reach city limits before anything interesting happened. As it ...

Pros: For King fans, it's another book by the master of horror and suspense
Cons: If you are not a King fan, then its another book by King !

Yes folks - I am back! After a short absence I am back with a vengeance! As an ardent Stephen King fan, you could say I was slightly chuffed to find that Santa had been kind enough to leave a couple of King books under my christmas tree this year! ...

Pros: Love King's characters; um...people get blown up?; well paced; tackles human-survivability issues
Cons: Ending was lacking

Zombies have roamed through books and movies eating brains and moaning mindlessly until Stephen King got hold of them in his novel Cell. King goes beyond the conventional Night of the Living Dead species. His zombies develop, learn, and aren’t exactly ...

Pros: Brisk pace, and simple, easy-to-get-into plot.
Cons: Let's just say a "disappointing" ending and leave it at that.

This is almost a Richard Bachman book. (Bachman is King's nom de plume under which he has released some of his older, pulpier efforts.) Simple, direct, bloody and not too full of itself. It's almost the anti-thesis of THE DARK TOWER. (Which is kind of ...

Pros: Well written book, with enough complexities to keep you interested from start to finish.
Cons: None

Wow! This book takes off at warp speed almost from the very first page. Set in Boston, the streets are filled with shoppers. In literally seconds, the busy bustling streets become a scene of carnage straight from hell. Clayton Riddell, an artist ...

Pros: Excellent Plot, Thought provoking dialogue, terrifing sequences, twists and surprises, Never a dull moment!
Cons: useless characters, dissapointing ending, that's about it

I first picked up Cell in my local library, thinking that Stehpen King was venturing into the writings of international espionage kinda like Tom Clancy or Clive Cussler (thank God he wasn't), but once I started reading it, in my mind I had confirmed that ...

Pros: Good Story, entertaining, quick read
Cons: not as descriptive as other King novels

What a an amazingly simple yet gruesomely scary idea: Let's take something that people take for granted, use every day, and can't seem to live without and make it evil. In Cell, King takes the simple idea of a cell phone and twists it into a web of ...