Cell, A Novel by Stephen King: There's a Reason Cell Rhymes with Hell

[Kris Kumar]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&tag=smartphonetho-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0743292332%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fqid%3D1139160934%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_1%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8\\' target='_blank'>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&tag=smartphonetho-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0743292332%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fqid%3D1139160934%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_1%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8\\</a><br /><br /></div><i>"On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. ... That changes in a hurry. The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse, and the delivery method is a cell phone. Everyone's cell phone. 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 human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature...and then begins to evolve. ... There are one hundred and ninety-three million cell phones in the United States alone. Who doesn't have one? Stephen King's utterly gripping, gory, and fascinating novel doesn't just ask the question "Can you hear me now?" It answers it with a vengeance."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Kris-Feb06-SKCell.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />Stephen King's latest novel, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&tag=smartphonetho-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0743292332%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fqid%3D1139160934%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_1%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8">Cell,</a> may make you rethink about answering your cell phone. During my recent visit to the book store, I spotted this book; I am not a Stephen King fan and have not read any of his books, but the title definitely grabbed my attention. Is anyone over here a Stephen King fan? And how did you find this book? I didn't pick up the book and Robin Cook is my favourite science fiction author. ;-) [Affiliate]

[Jerry Raia]

Is that an MPx220 in that picture? :lol:

[iJITSU]

Last year I had an idea for a story line. Basically, some entity (nation vs nation or an alien element vs the world) devises a weapon that would send energy through the celluar netorks and explode every single cell phone, and chaos begins. It seems like, based on the info posted, that King had the same idea. I think I'm going to have to read this book.

[Ed Hansberry]

Note that you can read this on your cell - or at least Pocket PC. Not sure if they have an ereader for Smartphone.

http://www.ereader.com/product/detail/21165?book=Cell:_A_Novel

[Covert]

Last year I had an idea for a story line. Basically, some entity (nation vs nation or an alien element vs the world) devises a weapon that would send energy through the celluar netorks and explode every single cell phone, and chaos begins. It seems like, based on the info posted, that King had the same idea. I think I'm going to have to read this book.
I saw a really crappy horror movie from the 70's in which something very similar to that happened, but of course wired phones were used instead of cellphones. It was absolutely terrible but they definitely blew up phones when you answered them.

It seems the concept may not be a very original one.

[Kris Kumar]

Last year I had an idea for a story line. Basically, some entity (nation vs nation or an alien element vs the world) devises a weapon that would send energy through the celluar netorks and explode every single cell phone, and chaos begins. It seems like, based on the info posted, that King had the same idea. I think I'm going to have to read this book.

I think you should read this book and go after Stephen King. ;-)

I don't want to give the story away but it is about some kind of a pulse issued thru the cell phones, that wipes out or corrupts organic hard-drive (aka brain) of the listeners, causing them to erupt in violence. The rest of the book talks about survivors trying to figure out a way to hard reset/reboot the system (aka brain) to get back to the original factory code. To a Smartphone user (aka MPx220 user) this may sound all too familiar. :lol:

[Jerry Raia]

it is about some kind of a pulse issued thru the cell phones, that wipes out or corrupts organic hard-drive (aka brain) of the listeners, causing them to erupt in violence.

Oh heck I could write that book, that happens to me every time work calls me to come in. :lol: