What happened at the end of Cell?
RickyBobby
that maybe there would be an epilogue or something but there was nothing.
Did the son get any better or not any better or would it not matter because
the whole world was messed up anyhow?
Skibum
The answer is what ever you want it to be.
Skibum
"RickyBobby" <nasc...@cox.net> wrote in message
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Bev Vincent
Message From Stephen Regarding Cell
CELL SPOILER: "Based on the information given in the final third of Cell-I'm
thinking about the reversion back toward the norm of the later phone
crazies-it seems pretty obvious to me that things turned out well for Clay's
son, Johnny. I don't need to tell you this, do I?"
-Steve
Posted 24 March 2006
Scott F.
The connection was lost....
jACK
Jack
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 14:35:55 -0800, "RickyBobby" <nasc...@cox.net>
wrote:
s0183616
> This was one of his books that didn't end, it just quit.
It did end. And SK was cool enough to pretty much let you know what
happened after the ending.
OK, I am going right now to see if I can watch The Mist on iTunes. I
hope so!
s0183616
Shit, The Mist isn't available yet.
Liz
That's where I took the story in my own head. Lots of people like the
endings more cut and dried, but I enjoy having to sort of figure things
out. The Mist was like that. I finished the book thinking that things
would be better. My son took it another direction, but we were each
pleased enough with our own take on the story that all these years
later, we had to go see the movie together!
Liz
RickyBobby
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> This was one of his books that didn't end, it just quit.
>
It did make a point. In the post-disaster world in does not even matter how
much stuff a person could have or how many things a person could do...all
that matters is the people who were left behind.
Tamara CallaLilly
you got that from that dribble?
That was the most disappointing SK novel I've read in my 40 years of life
and my addiction to SK since I was 12.
I got nothing but disappointment with the whole of Cell - but even more with
the 'ending' which just sort of... tapered off into nothing imo
Tamara
>
RickyBobby
"Tamara CallaLilly" <laud...@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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The part about all of the atrocities at the beginning was predictable. The
part I liked best was the guy who set up the big bomb in the bus and then
had the courage to kill himself so his mind could not be read. That was
memorable. The ending certainly did suck and I fervently hoped that there
would be some sort of afterword or epilogue or whatever it is called.
Who does Stephen King think he is, The Sopranos writers?
Maybe there will be a sequel. Cell II which can start exactly where Cell
left off. That would be funny.
The way things seem to be going in the world with food and water and disease
and wars some of us my get to play the post apocalypse game for real before
too long.
If I am still around I want to find me a boat. A big boat with a big larder
and a big fuel tank to run the genny. I do want to sail anywhere, I just
want to hang my hat on a big and well stocked boat. That would be the
ticket.
Thanatos
"Tamara CallaLilly" <laud...@bigpond.com> wrote:
> "Cell" was the most disappointing SK novel I've read in my 40
> years of life and my addiction to SK since I was 12.
I loved the book up until the ending. I'm generally not one to mind a
story that has an unresolved ending (I liked "Colorado Kid" and "The
Mist" despite the open-ended nature of those stories) but for some
reason the way King ended "Cell" just didn't feel right in terms of the
story. The distinct impression I had after reading it was that King just
got tired of the story and decided to tack on the ending without much
thought.
Thanatos
"RickyBobby" <nasc...@cox.net> wrote:
> The way things seem to be going in the world with food and water
> and disease and wars some of us my get to play the post
> apocalypse game for real before too long.
I already have a plan in place should the dead ever start to rise and
feast on the flesh of the living... ;-)
Covenant
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You probably wouldn;t be too surprised to hear that lots of people do !!
;' )))
Funny, isn;t it !
--
Covenant
A Man With Far Too Much Time On His Hands
Thanatos
"Covenant" <covenantWITH...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> "Thanatos" <atr...@mac.com> wrote in message
> news:atropos-A75858...@news.giganews.com...
> > In article <xxNMj.83482$497....@newsfe14.phx>,
> > "RickyBobby" <nasc...@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> >> The way things seem to be going in the world with food and water
> >> and disease and wars some of us my get to play the post
> >> apocalypse game for real before too long.
> >
> > I already have a plan in place should the dead ever start to rise and
> > feast on the flesh of the living... ;-)
>
> You probably wouldn;t be too surprised to hear that lots of people do !!
> ;' )))
It's the prudent thing to do.
jbuch...@yahoo.com
> story that has an unresolved ending (I liked "Colorado Kid" and "The
> Mist" despite the open-ended nature of those stories) but for some
> reason the way King ended "Cell" just didn't feel right in terms of the
> story. The distinct impression I had after reading it was that King just
> got tired of the story and decided to tack on the ending without much
> thought.
Or, the ending is appropriate for the story, and the decline in the
story that leads to it is what many of us don't like.
In any case, it's different from most earlier stories, yes.
Maybe SK was purposefully portraying the despair and desolation of
such a situation, and the decline is part of that? What's the book
about? The next stage of EVOLUTION of humanity. We may all be on
evolutionary dead ends. In some ways, roughly speaking, everybody
over age 25 is obsolete today, with the group-mentality cell phone
users younger than that coming into their own in society. From the
point of view on one side of that threshold: Ever ask a 21-yr old
whether he or she wants to go to lunch? "Let me check... <text, text,
text> <see responses> ... No, thanks." From the other side: Pretty
soon, the inability of old fogies to think collaboratively, to take
Google and Wikipedia and Facebook and My Fave 5 Texters and YouTube
and ETC. into account in every thought, will render them unable to
compete.
I believe it was a story to explore that topic, and it didn't turn out
as well as most SK stories as a story. It's still great science
fiction, though.
Debbie Faison
> Maybe SK was purposefully portraying the despair and desolation of
> such a situation, and the decline is part of that? What's the book
> about? The next stage of EVOLUTION of humanity. We may all be on
> evolutionary dead ends. In some ways, roughly speaking, everybody
> over age 25 is obsolete today, with the group-mentality cell phone
> users younger than that coming into their own in society. From the
> point of view on one side of that threshold: Ever ask a 21-yr old
> whether he or she wants to go to lunch? "Let me check... <text, text,
> text> <see responses> ... No, thanks." From the other side: Pretty
> soon, the inability of old fogies to think collaboratively, to take
> Google and Wikipedia and Facebook and My Fave 5 Texters and YouTube
> and ETC. into account in every thought, will render them unable to
> compete.
>
> I believe it was a story to explore that topic, and it didn't turn out
> as well as most SK stories as a story. It's still great science
> fiction, though.
I looked at it as an homage to Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend" and
George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead". In fact, he dedicated the book
to them. But I agree that the cell phone usage was a statement about the
younger generation specifically and our society in general and the
over-dependence on technology.
When I first read the ending I was upset but on further thought I
decided that it was a very doomed ending that was apparent and didn't need
to be further explored.
I hope I explained correctly.
Debbie