Cell
- 461
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Cell” is a brisk, grim road novel about a father crossing a collapsed world to reach his son, and its short chapters rarely let the pace drop. Some readers place it below Stephen King’s strongest work, and some feel the telling has to carry a thin plot. The sharpest disagreement concerns the ending, which some find breaks off before resolving what they were waiting for.
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About the book
Cell is a 2006 apocalyptic horror novel by American author Stephen King. The story follows a New England artist struggling to reunite with his young son after a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell phone network turns the majority of his fellow humans into mindless vicious animals.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.9 across 613 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 81% of the weight and the score stays at 7.0 — the Horror average of 7.5 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.3 | 123 | 20% |
| Google Books | 9.0 | 6 | 1% |
| Hardcover | 6.8 | 484 | 79% |
Frequently asked
How long is Cell?
It has 461 pages — longer than 68% of the ranked books in Horror.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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