This is classic Stephen King: something Very Bad happens, world goes to shit, a small group of survivors try to make their way across a hostile but familiar landscape, freaky things happen, gore, death, the good guys kinda sorta win in the end, but not cleanly. There could be a sequel but King doesn...
My original rating was three stars, but overnight it dropped to a mere two stars. Why? Well, I figure that during the last 50 pages of a Stephen King book I should be turning pages like a crazy man, but I was bored! Plus, I didn't feel emotionally invested in these characters, even the father/son re...
Cell did not disappoint. Okay, maybe the ending, just a smidgen, but not enough to dock the rating. King offers an interesting take on the zombie sub-genre, one that I'm still thinking about. These "zombies" scared me more and, as any good horror story should, spoke directly to the current state of ...
I really liked the first half of this book. Kind of like rage virus beasties running around eating people. The second half was like a different, and much worse, novel. Highly disappointing. Overall worth reading but mostly for the first half or so of the book.
Zombies, why can't I quit you?I was all jazzed to write some massively immature pun-filled review of this book – you know, something along the lines of “Don't give me any static about this, but I felt like King was really phoning it in” – but now that I've actually read it, I don't feel up to it any...
My very initial reaction to when I first heard about this book (waaaay back in 2006): “Oh, new Stephen Ki—HE’S DOING CELL PHONE ZOMBIES omgthisisgoingtobeawesome.” And then I read the book. To be fair, I do prefer the typical zombie—shambling, festering dead who want nothing more than braiiiiins—but...
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