Cell by Stephen King (2006, Hardcover)

This book was another of King's "grab your attention" page-turners. clayton Riddell and the other people who were lucky enough not to be on cell phones when "The Pulse", as it comes to be known, swept through the brains of the people who did, find themselves in a world turned upside down. The ones who did use their phones on that day are now known as "the phone crazies", and they rule the day. The others, the "normies" are now forced to inhabit the nightime - it is the only safe time to travel.

Travel is what Clayton Riddell has to do - he has to get from Boston to his family in Maine - if he still has a family. With no way to communicate, he has no idea, but like any of us, he has to know.

He is accompanied by others that he met either in Boston, or along the way.

If this were not enough to contend with, they must now face the fact that the phone crazies are changing, being reprogrammed, and no one knows what they will be like when the transformation is complete.

The book definitely keeps your attention, and draws you into the lives of Clayton, Tom, Alice, and Jordan, who, unlike most of the other "normies" do not take the threat lying down. They take action, but those actions cost them in ways that they didn't consider.

The ending was a bit of a letdown, but in true King fashion, it left you with thoughts of all the possibilities.

The book is a winner, and it certainly gives you something else to think about when you consider the number of cell phones in use throughout the world.