King rings up the horrors of cellphone creeps
By Carol Memmott, USA TODAY
Sick and tired of having to endure other people's dreary, loud, long-winded, one-sided cellphone calls?
Stephen King, who says he doesn't own a cellphone, has dialed up his own horror filled fantasy about what happen to those yakkers who do.
Stephen King has a text message for you, and he's sending it through "the devil's intercom."
Cell, the horror master's latest tale of a world gone wrong, is for anyone who has ever wished that the person standing next to him or her, droning into a cellphone, would spontaneously combust or, at the very least, get disconnected.
King, who says he doesn't own a cellphone, has dialed up his own fantasy about the best thing that can happen to these incessant, mindless yakkers.
About the book
Cell
By Stephen King
Scribner, 350 p.p., $26.95
On a seemingly typical afternoon, anyone who is talking on a cellphone becomes a victim of "The Pulse." This worldwide act of terrorism turns cellphone users into zombie-like, bloodthirsty "phone-crazies."
Crazies kill other crazies as well as "normies" (i.e.: people who don't use cellphones or at least weren't on their phones when The Pulse struck). Children kill their parents. Husbands kill their wives. There seems to be no rhyme or reason
By Carol Memmott, USA TODAY
Sick and tired of having to endure other people's dreary, loud, long-winded, one-sided cellphone calls?
Stephen King, who says he doesn't own a cellphone, has dialed up his own horror filled fantasy about what happen to those yakkers who do.
Stephen King has a text message for you, and he's sending it through "the devil's intercom."
Cell, the horror master's latest tale of a world gone wrong, is for anyone who has ever wished that the person standing next to him or her, droning into a cellphone, would spontaneously combust or, at the very least, get disconnected.
King, who says he doesn't own a cellphone, has dialed up his own fantasy about the best thing that can happen to these incessant, mindless yakkers.
About the book
Cell
By Stephen King
Scribner, 350 p.p., $26.95
On a seemingly typical afternoon, anyone who is talking on a cellphone becomes a victim of "The Pulse." This worldwide act of terrorism turns cellphone users into zombie-like, bloodthirsty "phone-crazies."
Crazies kill other crazies as well as "normies" (i.e.: people who don't use cellphones or at least weren't on their phones when The Pulse struck). Children kill their parents. Husbands kill their wives. There seems to be no rhyme or reason