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Title: Actually, it's a heavily padded novella
Review: As always, King sets up a wonderful premise, but you feel like you've read it before -- THE STAND. But with THE STAND you had various characters from all over the US and they each had backstories. Here, you have just a handful--and a pretty dull lot at that. Like THE STAND, they have to make a journey and that's where CELL falls apart--that's all it is, a journey. By page 50, you realize that's about it -- the Pulse is NEVER explained, and the pretty dull characters blow up stuff, have mind-visions, and then the book is over.If it had been a 50 page novella, I think it would have been more compelling and successful. At 350 pages, it's simply wearisome.
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