![]() ![]() Simultaneous release with the Scribner hardcover (Reviews, Jan. echoed throughout King's works, including his other 9/11 allegory, Cell. He also resists the temptation to make the "phoners" (those affected by the Pulse) sound unusually strange or dangerous-until their real motives become obvious. As we see elsewhere in King's fiction, Under the Dome prefers police to politics. ![]() The story follows a New England artist struggling to reunite with his young son after a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell phone network turns the majority of his fellow humans into mindless vicious animals. Scott makes the lead character-a comic book artist from Maine (where else?) named Clayton Riddell, who is in Boston with his phone off and in his pocket-a touching and surprisingly tough survivor, much like the nonpods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers Cell is a 2006 apocalyptic horror novel by American author Stephen King. The Pulse, as it comes to be known, turns idle chatterers into weirdly rewired killing machines. Scott's voice but smooths off the rough edges) adds an important element-quiet believability-to King's bloody, occasionally over-the-top story of a short but lethal electronic signal that seriously damages everyone in the world using a cell phone at that moment. The excellent film actor (who catches the power of his late father George C. It's probably a good idea not to use your cell phone while you listen to Scott's beautifully understated reading of terrormeister King's latest take on technology run amok: you might just toss it down the nearest storm drain. ![]()
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