Its the end of the world as we know it and I don’t feel real good about using my cell phone anymore.
I’ve only begun to get into the Stephen King catalog, but I had heard many good things about this new book, Cell so I originally picked it up as an unabridged audiobook when I was doing a lot of driving last weekend. I was hooked instantly. I only got halfway through the audiobook by the time I got home, so I didn’t hesitate to go directly to B&N and pick it up in hardback to finish that night and add it to my bookshelf to keep. I love the way King describes his characters and the world he creates for them. There is nothing about it that seems remarkable from an English lit point of view, yet some how it seeps into the reader’s brain and its as if you’re there (even though its not usually a good place to be). I’ve also realized in the few King books that I’ve read that I shouldn’t get too attached to any one character, because their untimely death is possibly just around the next page turn.
Obviously from the title, one can tell that cell phones are going to be a key point in the plot. I really don’t want to give any of the story away because its just so compelling and engrossing, but I’ll just say that it definitely made me paranoid about my cell phone and cell phones around me for a few days, not to mention it made me making mental lists of how I should get some disaster/survival gear together, because you just never know what could happen.
In the end, I found Cell to be a perfect mix of the frighteningly fantastic with the realities of our modern world.
I have been reading towards my 50 books/year goal, I just haven’t been posting about them. I’m trying to get back into that habit now that I can post directly from AllConsuming where I keep track of my reading.
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