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Cell

An epic thriller from the No. 1 bestseller

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By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
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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 Scary Boston
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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 is the first audible book I have downloaded, and its quality is poor compared to audio books I have on CD. The quality of the sound changes mid-chapter (as if the reader took a break) and there are many instances of a deeper voice dubbed over for a few words, perhaps when the original reader made a mistake. Excellent story, let down by poor quality audio.

Great story, poor audio

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I loved this book, I loved the idea. It's an end of the worlder but a great one, I love the understandings the humans develop of the new world and I actually like the ending. It doesn't have to be all wrapped up nicely with a bow,this is life, live with it

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Well you can't go wrong with a Stephen King book so in a sense writing a review is a moot point. I can't wholly say I enjoyed the story though because it doesn't really have the "happy ending" I would have loved, and instead leaves you wondering whether there could be a second book or will he leave you to create your own furtherence of the story.



Basically the book was unputdownable and I really felt for the lead character.

You Cant go Wrong

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This is one of King's most engaging books in my opinion. It is a shame it is let down by the performance. It makes me wonder about the quality control. The reader sounds totally bored! I found I soon got used to the soporific quality of his voice but found it very distracting towards the end when either there were two different readers spliced together (sometimes for just the odd word or sentence) or the audio mixing randomly changes drastically.

A great story but poor performance.

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Loved the characters storyline and plot utterly terrifying Stephen King is a master at his craft! Not for the faint hearted! A must for all horror fans!

Deliciously creepy

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