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Title: King's 'Cell' A Great Disappointment
Review: Stephen King's new book 'Cell' was a great disappointment to me. I enjoyed his early writing a great deal. It was researched, witty, poetic, disturbing and captivating. This novel is pedantic, cliche, politically biased, socially skewed and patently ridiculous in its premise. Give me Dean Koontz any day - an author who has a wide range of plots and doesn't drag his bitterness and ideologies into his writing as King has done here. The Stand is still, in my mind, one of the greatest books ever written - what a pity that King has bought more into Hollywood hype and drivel than into what people actually think and feel in the majority out there. Not to be unkind, but I highly doubt, given an apocolypse, that people would be as weak as his characters in 'Cell' are. Save your money for the next Koontz novel unless you like a novel that bashes our President, our government, the Iraq war, right to life, non-alternative lifestyles and moral living that is.
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