Somebody lied to me.<\/p>\n
Somebody, long ago when I first found out about this book, wrote up a thing that said that this book was about zombies.<\/p>\n
It’s kinda not.
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\nI 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.<\/p>\n
There’s no hand of god at the sort-of-end of this one, though.<\/p>\n
It’s a very short book. It took me less than twelve hours to read it.<\/p>\n
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<\/i> times, but that’s really as close as it ever gets.<\/p>\n
I do kind of think there’s a clue in the almost-language that the not-zombies speak. It reminds me a lot<\/i> of Desperation<\/a><\/i> and The Regulators<\/a><\/i>. That’s probably just me looking for ties where there might not be any, though….<\/p>\n