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Stephen King , Campbell Scott
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24 Jan 2006
A través de los teléfonos móviles se envía un mensaje que convierte a todos en esclavos asesinos. Pocos se escapan de su fuerza y estos tendrán que sobrevivir en un mundo totalmente transformado.

Clayton Riddell no tiene teléfono móvil, su esposa, Sharon, tampoco. Están separados pero en contacto constante por su hijo Johnny Gee. Sus padres le han regalado un móvil para cosas urgentes. Saben que muy a menudo no lo lleva encima y por eso le riñen.
El uno de octubre Clay viaja a Boston por una entrevista de trabajo y de repente cuando pasea por el parque es testigo de escenas espeluznantes, escenas totalmente inexplicables: gente en la calle que hablando por el móvil se convierten repentinamente en monstruos asesinos, atacan y matan a todos los de su alrededor. Los coches chocan entre sí. Es una escena de caos sangriento, incendios, alarmas.. . incomprensible. Ya no hay canales de radio ni televisión, ni servicios de ningún tipo. Nada que pueda poner orden. Clay entiende que todo ha sido causado por un mensaje a través de los móviles. Consigue refugiarse en un hotel junto con otro hombre Tom McCourt y una adolescente, Alice, los dos sin móvil. Deciden abandonar la ciudad para averiguar si la situación es la misma en el resto del país. Para Clay, lo más importante es localizar a su hijo que, espera que hoy no lleve su móvil encima.
Los tres emprenden su viaje a pie hacia la ciudad donde vive Johnny y su madre. Andan de noche cuando los locos no se mueven. De día se esconden en casas abandonadas. En su camino se encuentran con otros que se han salvado pero son pocos y descubren que los locos se han convertido en una especie de zombies telepáticos. Estos se juntan de día en grandes masas, llamados por música transmitida por altavoces, en estadios de deportes. De noche duermen. Están controlados por los sonidos. Andan y andan hacia un solo destino.
La mujer de Clay ha sido víctima de la gran destrucción pero su hijo parece haber sobrevivido y Clay y sus dos compañeros siguen su pista. Van de ciudad en ciudad, entre cadáveres y zombies asesinos, entre el caos y la destrucción, hasta llegar a la ciudad de su destino.
Y allí Clay encontrará a Johnny, no el Johnny de antes, pero quizás algún día aprenderá de nuevo a ser un niño “normal”. El mensaje de los móviles va perdiendo toda su fuerza pero...el mundo nunca volverá a ser lo mismo.
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  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio; Unabridged edition (24 Jan 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0743554337
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743554336
  • Product Dimensions: 14.7 x 14.4 x 3.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (225 customer reviews)
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'King has inspired a whole generation to read...a fabulous teller of stories who can create an entire new world and make the reader live in it' (Express )

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Campbell Scott's reading of CELL by Stephen King will send shivers down your spine - if you're a fan of King, or even of books, you have to hear this. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Not at his best, but he's still on form... 13 Feb 2007
Format:Paperback
After the conclusion to the Dark Tower series, Stephen King said he might think about retiring. He lasted all of about eighteen months before The Colorado Kid appeared, swiftly followed by Cell. And thank God he couldn't keep away.

Cell starts fast and then keeps coming, twisting from bizarre to even more bizarre and finally bordering on the ridiculous at its climax. As with all of King's work, it's beautifully crafted, with believable characters (even the cameos are sculpted in great detail), good locations and a thumping plotline that holds your attention.

Cell has a lot of the qualities that made King's earlier work stand out; unpredictability, suspense and graphic violence all combine with the human elements and the interactions between the characters to create something which is simply a pleasure to read.

The premise (cell phone pulse drives all cell phone users into murderous frenzy - only old people, young children and the technically inept survive - cue struggle for survival a la 28 Days Later) seems a bit silly at first, but it's executed so well that by the time you're 20 pages in, you don't care.

If you're new to King, this would be a pretty good place to start, as it has a trademark blend of tongue in cheek humour and horror, but without stretching to thousands of pages like some of the earlier epics (though if you like this, It, The Shining and, in particular, The Stand are all must-reads).

A stand out point in this book is that King seems to have found a way to get around his notable difficulty in reaching an ending. The technique employed will either leave you desperate for more (as it did me) or perhaps feeling a little cheated. I liked it, others clearly haven't. Why don't you read the book and decide for yourselves?
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3.0 out of 5 stars A good story, but not spectacular 16 Jun 2008
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Format:Paperback
An event, the Pulse, hits the world and throws it into mayhem. Everyone using a mobile phone at the time (or afterwards) is affected and the majority of those attack each other and the normal people left behind. The streets aren't a safe place to wander and locking yourself up in a secure house might be the one thing that keeps you alive, at least in the beginning.

We pick up the story of Cell just before the Pulse with Clay, your average guy who has just hit lucky with his comic book art work. As he wanders through the streets he lets his mind wander until the cell's start ringing and people start going crazy. Horrified at what is going on he deals remarkably well with the situation and manages to help where he can. As things get worse he hopes that his son, left with his mother back home, is okay - after all, he does have his own little cell phone. With his mind set on this, Clay does the only thing a parent would do in this situation and make his way all that distance back to him, regardless of what he might find.

I quite enjoyed Cell with it's first few chapters of zombie like action and horror before it changes to a more science fiction based plot point that hovers just beneath the surface. The story takes us on a journey through the city before heading to the highways and roads strewn with abandoned cars and the 'normies' left over walking along them - King does a rather good job at presenting a realistic situation here.

The story is split into sections, each reading similar to a short story but using the previous information as it's basis. It was nice to read like this as it broke the book up into more managable sections.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars It's okay - quite good, really. 10 Mar 2007
Format:Paperback
This book is pretty good. It's King's take on Zombies, and is almost a homage to all the great zombie movies of the past; in fact, the book is dedicated (should that be deadicated?), to George Romero - the Zombie master.

From memory, this is the first time that King has had written a Zombie novel - and of course, there's always a twist, an original way of looking at a well-worn subject.

King's Zombies are not actually dead; they have received some weird signal via cell phone, and it wipes their whole mental programming, driving them violently insane, but that violent insanity only lasts a short time; soon the phone-zombies - or phoners, as King calls them - are beginning some strange master-plan for the non-infected.

The story unfolds like most King novels - a natural, un-plotted evolution that makes time fly when you read. It's good to know that when you read a King novel, it's not just you that has no idea where the story's going - it's the author as well. You can never see the joins in a King novel - they don't exist.

It's true, the ending does seem to come upon the reader quite suddenly, but being one of King's Constant Readers, I know that's how it was always meant to be, and that the man had no real choice. I would have liked to know what the Phone-Zombies had planned, but it doesn't really matter, Cell is a good read.

Hang on, is that my mobile ringing.....?
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Mixed feelings on this one people. The groundworks here follow two typically successful formulas.

1) This is, as many other reviews here will tell you, almost a complete rehash of The Stand, arguably Kings best work yet. This puts King in an immediatley unenviable position. The writer excelled himself with the Stand so surly something so similar is only going to compare unfavouably. It does. The opening establishment of a "2nd Dark Age" is done far to quickly, leaving the only character we really know as Clay. I feel that at a story like this should be epic- but at only 400 pages I guess it was obvious that was never going to happen, the Stand introduced a flock of great characters then thrust them into apocolypse, what this does is take one character and thrust him in and out of catastrophe in as few chapters as possible- not a terrible idea, but not the best either.

2) The other typically successful formula used here is the Zombie-story. This isn't so much Night of the Living Dead, but it certainly reminds of that kind of thing, which for King seems pretty preliminary, but then I guess after nearly 40 years of writing your resevoir of ideas is going to start running low.

Another con here is the end, it tells you nothing, you don't find out how the characters turned out, how it all truly began, or why, you just accept what little you are told and live with it.

Although this is not Kimg at his best you still can't help be absorbed by the King of Horrors ability to create truly frightening and gruesome moments and love them. The Raggedy Man whom you'll meet about half way through is one of Kings many great villains. Which is why this is still a definite must have for an fans of King and horror alike.
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5.0 out of 5 stars mobile!!
read this book sometime ago and loved it now getting more of his books to read so i am giving this one to a friend as part of her birthday present
Published 20 days ago by smee
3.0 out of 5 stars Not his best, and not the best zombie book out there
I love some of King's books (Under the Dome, The Stand, 11/22/63) but this one was a bit of a disappointment. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Marian Hartright
4.0 out of 5 stars No phone
I didn't have a mobile phone before I read this book. Now I never want one. It makes you think about all the possible technology ready and waiting to be used. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Jane Reeves
5.0 out of 5 stars A really weird idea
What if.. What if the cells made zombies? I think its an idea we all could gather round on... After!!
Published 4 months ago by Eva Schwanenflugel
4.0 out of 5 stars Cell
4 stars only because I haven't yet read it, I'm sure its a 5.

I didn't think it had so many pages, I just hope its not one of those stories that drag and you get bored... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Emma Osborne
3.0 out of 5 stars Although I enjoyed this book it had a rubbish ending
I enjoyed reading this book but didn't like the way it ended, clay could of found his friends again, I dunno felt
Published 5 months ago by not very good
5.0 out of 5 stars Raw Humanity
Stephen King somehow manages to always access the depths of raw humanity, and Cell is no exception. Thoroughly enjoyed this read, spreading out human nature in all its glory and on... Read more
Published 5 months ago by thn89
2.0 out of 5 stars Poor signal
I read King's Pet Sematary on publication in 1983 in one sitting and was hooked. Over the next couple of years I read almost everything King-related. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Philtrum
5.0 out of 5 stars Fans of The Crazies, 28 Days Later, Walking Dead will love this.
Also available in paperback. I've become a Stephen King fan because of this story. Lots of detail especially in the descriptions of characters. Good horror moments.
Published 6 months ago by Kish
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
This Stephen king book will make you think about your phone in a different way, it's cleaver and has a ending where you a left to draw your own thoughts to what happens
Published 7 months ago by Scroogelives
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