Somebody lied to me.

Somebody, long ago when I first found out about this book, wrote up a thing that said that this book was about zombies.

It's kinda not.

I suppose the concepts are similar. Things about zombies aren't really ever about zombies -- they're about the survivors faced with the end of the world. That's not a new concept, when it comes to Stephen King.

There's no hand of god at the sort-of-end of this one, though.

It's a very short book. It took me less than twelve hours to read it.

And nothing really gets explained. There's this thing, 'the Pulse', from cellphones, and it's supposed to reset the brain -- like a computer reformat. But the signal has a virus and it's degrading. Nobody ever explains where the signal came from, though. Terrorists are, of course, brought up many times, but that's really as close as it ever gets.

I do kind of think there's a clue in the almost-language that the not-zombies speak. It reminds me a lot of Desperation and The Regulators. That's probably just me looking for ties where there might not be any, though....

In spite of the shortness and the...wrongness of that initial expectation, Cell was not a bad book. And I suppose if you're the sort of person who thinks that 28 Days Later had zombies in it, then this one counts, too.

And, hey, I don't think they even run....

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