Cell, Stephen King
Cell, Stephen King
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Cell

Author: Stephen King

Narrator: Campbell Scott

Unabridged: 12 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/24/2006


Synopsis

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…

About Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King was born in 1947 in the city of Portland, Maine. He attended the University of Maine, where he received a B.A. degree in English in 1970. He married his present wife, Tabitha, in 1971, and they have three children. King is an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His novels have sold more than 350 million copies. Many have been made into films, television movies, and comics. He has published 54 novels using a pen name (Richard Bachman) for a few of them. Many of his stories take place in his home state of Maine.

He has won about every possible literary award beginning with his 1980 novella, The Way Station. His most notable literary award was in 2007 for the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.King has had the common human weaknesses including alcoholism and drug addiction. His health during that period was so bad that he barely remembered writing the novel, Cujo. The first novel written after he quit all dependent drugs and alcohol was Needful Things.Stephen King's wife, Tabitha, has published nine of her own novels along with both sons being published writers. His daughter is a Unitarian Universalism Church minister with her same sex partner.

A life altering happening beset King in June of 1999. King was walking on the shoulder of Route 5, in Lovell, Maine, when a driver, who was distracted by an unrestrained dog, struck him from behind. His severe injuries kept him in the hospital until July 9. His lawyer purchased the van that hit him to prevent it from being sold on eBay. It was crushed at a junkyard. King thought that he would not write again, but did resume writing with this caveat, "I'm writing, but I'm writing at a slower pace".

His most notable novels are: Carrie, The Shining, The Stand, Misery, It, The Dark Tower, Under the Dome, and The Shawshank Redemption.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Rosemary on 2007-11-11 14:37:04

Cell phones cause people to go...rabid is too light for what happens. Interesting and one of his best of his recent releases. If you like this, search out Blood Crazy by Simon Clark. It'll satisfy you after reading this one.

AudiobooksNow review by Cyndie Browning on 2008-01-08 14:24:39

I've been a fan of Stephen King's books since I read The Shining in the late 70's but I stopped reading them after Misery. It seemed to me as if King had begun believing his own press, and his stories seemed to lose the old edge of his masterpieces like The Shining and The Stand. I started listening to Cell with the same fascination I used to feel with his older books until, near the end, when the story no longer seemed even remotely plausible, I realized that Cell was just another shaggy dog story. If you like episodic tales that don't really go anywhere, Cell may be to your liking. And it did cause me to think about just how pervasive this new cell phone technology has become. But in the end, it was just another long drawn-out story and it'll probably be a long while before I feel drawn to read another of his books.

AudiobooksNow review by Alexander on 2008-09-18 17:45:03

This is one of my favority Kind novels. I couldn't stop listening to this one, made me late for work alot.

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on August 16, 2020

Focusing on one main plot element can go wrong if the writer is no plotter and doesn´t construct a finetuned metaplot around the fictional device. Without the extreme problem of the suspension of disbelief, especially after the first half of the book, it would be the used interesting characterization......more

Goodreads review by Leah on July 07, 2007

Literary critics can moan all they want about Stephen King's "penny dreadful" oeuvre, but his mastery at the craft of storytelling is indisputable. King writes his novels like a seduction, the story unfolding delicately and deliberately. As any Stephen King fan knows, his coy expository chapters oft......more

Goodreads review by Baba on January 13, 2021

This book begins with a huge BANG! No setting the scene, no gliding over Castle Rock or Derry and visiting some of the cast, just page one - KICK OFF! Our mobiles, our bestest friends, become our worse enemy, in fact our bestest friend, makes us become our own worse enemy. The downside to King's rele......more

Goodreads review by Misty Marie on March 06, 2022

Well we all knew cellphones would find a way to kill us one way or another. I think King was a little before his time because in recent years people have become seriously addicted to their phones. I know I have to have mine on me at all times. Likewise, I start to panic if I can't find it. Anyway, t......more

Goodreads review by Calista on March 12, 2020

This is Stephen's spin on Zombies. These things are Zombie like, but they aren't really zombies. These things seem to still be alive, needing food, not just brains and if you cut them, they will still bleed. Yet, they no longer think and they are fairly mindless, like a zombie. Stephen riffs off zom......more