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Title: Refund, please
Review: I am a King fan, have read nearly everything he has published and will purchase his next book sight-unseen. Having said that, "Cell" is a bad book, possibly his worst. There are good and interesting moments. (Read: "Cinematic" - coming to a theater near you by Christmas...) The gore is well done, the premise is interesting. But we've read significant elements of this book before and it's disheartening to read them warmed-over here. The ending is an unsatisfying cop-out involving a character we never knew and find it hard to care about. Fortunately by the end it's hard to care about any of the characters or plot elements. The whole effort is limp and unworthy of Big Steve.
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