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bending_sickleAnna, Mika and Jean-Luc gave me Cell by Stephen King weeks ago as a nice little gesture due to them invading the flat. (The wiki link is better, but spoilerific. Amazon has useful reader comments.)
I got hooked on it although, as often happens with suspense novels, I liked the first half better than the second, where things get a bit hairy with the explanation. King's a very visual writer, which was neat (albeit disturbing) because I'm a visual reader, and all the violent scenes, all the blood and guts, were in my head in full cinematic* gory glory. I liked his characters and their different reactions to the stress, aprticualry the teenage girl's, although I'm upset about how King ends up treating her. All through the book, our hero is wondering if his kid's ok, and this little "panic rat", as it's described, is the force behind the plot, making our characters strive to find little Johnyy-Gee.
Now, don't get me wrong, I felt sorry for the poor guy, but I hoped to god he wouldn't find his child alive and/or well. I just couldn't go all through the book telling Clay, "Look, leave it, the kid's dead, just give it up, man," along with other characters, only to have a hapy reunion at the end. I needed Clay to face his grief, cry and scream over it all, and move the fuck on. A story that gory and realistic in people's reations just couldn't end with the happy.
And it doesn't, in fact it ends one minute before you find out whether things are going to be ok or not, but hot damn does it get close.
Here's a better review. Although I certainly got no Hurricane Katrina vibes from the book...
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sickle_stories for fic ideas this book has given me, mostly out of the pure rage of the ending. Or hell, just go to sickle_stories to read anything at all. There's more stuff there now.
* And soon you'll be able to watch it!
From wiki:
On March 8th, 2006, Ain't It Cool News announced that Dimension Films have bought the film rights to the book and will produce a film directed by Eli Roth (Hostel (film), Cabin Fever) for a 2007 release.
I sense too much glee in the violence of the movie from the producer than one would generally consider healthy. Or sane:
When the pulse hits, I wanna see it hit EVERYWHERE. In restaurants, in movie theaters, at sports events, all the places that people drive you crazy when they're talking on their cell phones. I see total armageddon. People going crazy killing each other - everyone at once - all over the world. Cars smashing into each other, people getting stabbed, throats getting ripped out.
I got hooked on it although, as often happens with suspense novels, I liked the first half better than the second, where things get a bit hairy with the explanation. King's a very visual writer, which was neat (albeit disturbing) because I'm a visual reader, and all the violent scenes, all the blood and guts, were in my head in full cinematic* gory glory. I liked his characters and their different reactions to the stress, aprticualry the teenage girl's, although I'm upset about how King ends up treating her. All through the book, our hero is wondering if his kid's ok, and this little "panic rat", as it's described, is the force behind the plot, making our characters strive to find little Johnyy-Gee.
Now, don't get me wrong, I felt sorry for the poor guy, but I hoped to god he wouldn't find his child alive and/or well. I just couldn't go all through the book telling Clay, "Look, leave it, the kid's dead, just give it up, man," along with other characters, only to have a hapy reunion at the end. I needed Clay to face his grief, cry and scream over it all, and move the fuck on. A story that gory and realistic in people's reations just couldn't end with the happy.
And it doesn't, in fact it ends one minute before you find out whether things are going to be ok or not, but hot damn does it get close.
Here's a better review. Although I certainly got no Hurricane Katrina vibes from the book...
You see
sickle_stories for fic ideas this book has given me, mostly out of the pure rage of the ending. Or hell, just go to sickle_stories to read anything at all. There's more stuff there now.* And soon you'll be able to watch it!
From wiki:
On March 8th, 2006, Ain't It Cool News announced that Dimension Films have bought the film rights to the book and will produce a film directed by Eli Roth (Hostel (film), Cabin Fever) for a 2007 release.
I sense too much glee in the violence of the movie from the producer than one would generally consider healthy. Or sane:
When the pulse hits, I wanna see it hit EVERYWHERE. In restaurants, in movie theaters, at sports events, all the places that people drive you crazy when they're talking on their cell phones. I see total armageddon. People going crazy killing each other - everyone at once - all over the world. Cars smashing into each other, people getting stabbed, throats getting ripped out.
