Cell

So I just finished this book by Stephen King called Cell. Its about this guy named Clay who is like a comic book artist, and he is in Boston or something talking to a comic book maker guy trying to get his comic published and then in like the first 10 pages people go crazy and start attacking each other. Apparently there was a message sent out through cell phones which they refer to as a pulse that “wiped clean” the civility in people, and all that’s left is the barbaric killing instinct. The only people who have been exposed to the pulse are those that used there cell phone. So Clay meets this girl named Alice and this other man named Tom and they spend about 250 pages looking for Clay son who is back in Boston or someplace in that area. They run into another group of normal people who end up developing a scheme that will get them into trouble later on in the book with the “phonies”. The “phonies” (people who were hit by the pulse) start evolving and become telepathic and start rounding up all the non-phonies to change them into phonies for some unknown reason. It’s a typical Stephen King book complete with his usual suspense feeling and an emotional twist that seem to appear in all his books such as his search for his son. This also is seen in Pet Semetary with the father’s attachment to his son and wife, and in It with the little boy’s relationship to his murdered brother. Overall this book was very interesting, and was able to maintain my interest throughout; however, I don’t think I have come across a book of his that I haven’t liked so I would probably be seen as biased. I think this book does an excellent job of showing a so great a love for something that is causes the person to lose their rational thinking, and do anything to retrieve said love. Many times the father questions if his son is still alive, and if he is still alive, if he was still normal. Through the beginning of the book this question plagues him. Although he knows that it is very unlikely that his son is still alive, it doesn’t stop him from looking, and many of the decisions he makes are based on the ludicrous possibility of his son’s life.