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Cell

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Cell

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
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Summary
 Stephen King's bestselling apocalyptic thriller is a major motion picture starring John Cusack (1408), Samuel L. Jackson (Django Unchained) and Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan) coming in August.

Civilization slipped into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stank to the empty heavens and the world as it had been was a memory.

The event became known as The Pulse. The virus was carried by every cell phone operating throughout the entire world. Within ten hours, most people would be dead or insane.

A young artist Clayton Riddell realises what is happening. And together with Tom McCourt and a teenage girl called Alice, he flees the devastation of explosive, burning Boston, desperate to reach his son before he switches on his little red mobile phone . . .

(p) Simon & Schuster 2006©2006 Stephen King Horror Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Exciting Scary
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Very clever and brilliantly written . . . you won't use your mobile for days.
Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or the reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next - is a gift . . . Stephen King has this gift in spades.
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This isn't my favorite Stephen King... but what an interesting story which makes you think... just imagine if this actually happened. The only downside is the ending... I wish I knew what happened next.

Finished on a cliffhanger... what happened next?

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This book had me hooked from the start. Please listen to this book for considering watching the movie or at least read this if you've only seen the movie. it's worth every second.

settle in for a great book.

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Amazing book as would be expected, but the ending was unfinished and very disappointing. Is there another book coming?

Loved all but the ending

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This is such an awesome apocalyptic story and Stephen King at his usual word smithing genius. I really enjoyed the narration as well!

Fantastically written story and great narration

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I wasn't sure about the narrator at first, but he did an excellent job. It would have been easy to fall into the trap of reading the story in an excited tone, but Campbell kept it tight the whole way through. I'm sur Mr.King will follow up this story with a sequel. How could he not?

hope there's a sequel!

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