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Title: Should Have Stayed Bachman
Review: In his typical fashion, Stephen King leads us to believe in the first few paragraphs that he may have finally returned to the voice that we all fell in love with. Sadly, this is not the case."Cell" is as badly contrived a novel as I could have ever imagined. One-dimensional characters, a farcical style and voice, his ever-present use of slang words for anatomy, and his creepy penchant for including teenaged girls in his stories. King's use of street-level geography bogs down the reader, making us concentrate more on where his characters are physically rather than where they are emotionally. Anyone unfamiliar with Massachusetts is apt to put down the tome in a few minutes, once they get past the macabre opening scenes in which people jump from skyscrapers and gnash at each others' throats with their teeth.Unfortunately, the days of the King are gone, leaving us all wishing for Bachman in all his glory.
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