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Stephen Kingcast

Episode Ninety Three-Cell

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Arts, Tv & Film, Books, Arts:books

4.7681 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2015

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

With Cell, critics claimed this was Stephen King's return to horror.  What we have certainly sounds like classic King: an every day object/concept spun into a nightmarish tale.  However, released in the midst of the early 2000s zombie wave that began with 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, does Cell really have that much to say?  Find out this week in the Stephen Kingcast!

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0:00.0

Hello, why

0:02.3

The little thing you plan to plan to call me to

0:05.8

Hello, hello, telephone line

0:10.0

Give me some time

0:13.3

I'm living in twilight

0:18.2

Hello, hello, Hello everyone and welcome

0:21.6

Hi,

0:23.6

Hello everyone, welcome to the Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

0:28.6

Each week, I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication.

0:33.6

And this week brings me to the 2006 publication of what was billed as

0:39.5

King's Return to Form the horror fest that takes on a common everyday object and

0:44.7

turns it quite literally into the end of the world a novel that turns a

0:48.4

ubiquitous device into our own downfall and functions as his own unique take on

0:53.3

the popular zombie genre the nail-biting

0:55.9

thriller, Cell.

0:58.0

Here's a little background for Cell.

0:59.9

When King finished writing the Dark Tower, he famously stated that he was retired.

1:04.1

He was done.

1:05.5

And as you know from my review of the Dark Tower Book 7, the Dark Tower, the Reading Experience

1:10.6

reads like a funereal experience.

1:14.2

There's a sense of mourning draped over that novel, and I can understand why King felt a profound

1:19.9

sense of closure upon the conclusion of writing The Dark Tower.

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