![]() ![]() ![]() As the clock rolled by 11pm, midnight, 1am, 2am, I was just facinated by this story. On one hand, I do have to recognize the similarity (on the surface, at least) to The Stand, The Langoliers, The Mist - other King stories along the same general plotline. Who doesn't have one? Stephen King's utterly gripping, gory, and fascinating novel doesn't just ask the question "Can you hear me now?" It answers it with a vengeance. There are 193 million cell phones in the United States alone. Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization's darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature.and then begins to evolve. The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse, and the delivery method is a cell phone. Why not a little treat for himself? Clay's feeling good about the future. ![]() He's already picked up a gift for his long-suffering wife, and he knows just what he'll get for his boy Johnny. He's just landed a comic book deal that might finally enable him to support his family by making art instead of teaching it. On October 1st, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. ![]()
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