What is Stephen Kings novel “Cell” about?
don’t much care for cell phones. I got rid of my own last year when I realized I hardly ever used it. Stephen King doesn’t much seem to like them either. They’re the trigger that leads to worldwide apocalypse in his taut, invigorating new novel, Cell. It’s the best non-Dark Tower novel the man has written in several years, satisfyingly gory and frightening, with a magnificent hook. Cell launches like a rocket and doesn’t let up the white-knuckle tension for several chapters. It all starts one bright autumn day in Boston as aspiring comic book artist Clay Riddell stops in a park to enjoy an ice-cream cone. Suddenly, half the people around him go insane. The cause appears to be an unheard pulse that affects anybody who uses a cell phone — the majority of Americans, in other words. The Pulse erases their minds, turning them into savage, zombie-like beasts. It’s nothing less than the end of the world. Clay and a small band of survivors meet up and together try to make their way in this awf
