{"id":3285,"date":"2007-07-12T15:47:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T19:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/?p=3285"},"modified":"2023-05-27T06:30:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T10:30:04","slug":"cell-stephen-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/2007\/07\/cell-stephen-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell &#8211; Stephen King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/books\/cell.jpg\" width=\"158\" height=\"241\" alt=\"Cover of Cell\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"small\"><strong><br \/>\nCell<br \/>\nStephen King<br \/>\n350 pages<br \/>\npublished in 2006<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not a big horror fan, nor a big Stephen King fan either. The only books of his I liked was his <cite>Dark Tower<\/cite> series and even that I haven&#8217;t kept up with. Yet when I idly started to skim through <cite>Cell<\/cite>, I couldn&#8217;t put it down until I had finished it. Sandra, who <cite>is<\/cite> a Stephen King fan, says that this is what King does best: grip you by the throat and carry you along until the story&#8217;s over. He certainly managed to do that here, dragging you bodily to the finish despite the absurdities on the way.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBecause, let&#8217;s be honest, <cite>Cell<\/cite> is not so much a good novel, as it is an exciting novel, one for which the inevitable movie treatment has already been written. Googling, it seems this was written as a homage to zombie horror movies, as well as novels like Richard Matheson&#8217;s <cite>I am Legend<\/cite>; <cite>Cell<\/cite> is in fact dedicated to George Romero and him. In that context it works about as well as the recent remake of <cite>Dawn of the Dead<\/cite>: it&#8217;s a fast paced but shallow adrenaline rush.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/books\/cell.html\">Read more<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell Stephen King 350 pages published in 2006 I&#8217;m not a big horror fan, nor a big Stephen King fan either. The only books of his I liked was his Dark Tower series and even that I haven&#8217;t kept up with. Yet when I idly started to skim through Cell, I couldn&#8217;t put it down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[631,632],"class_list":["post-3285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-cell","tag-stephen-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4451,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions\/4451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}