Cell review

I call this book the mini-Stand. The Stand was Stephen King's epic about an apocalyptic flu and the people who survived it. "Cell" is much like The Stand, but instead of the flu, people get infected via their cell phones, which turn them into zombies (do you get the feeling this book practically wrote itself?). The "normies" who survive uninfected scramble to try to survive the phoners' attacks. It's much shorter than The Stand though, because instead of following a large group of characters, it follows only 3-5 at most. This makes for a streamlined post-apocalyptic world that's limited to the New England region, though you can easily imagine the same events happening all over the world. I enjoyed it, like I do most King novels, and I appreciated it more today waiting in line for lunch at Subway behind cell yakkers, wishing they would turn into zombies too. King readers will recognize allegories in the characters (Raggedy Man is a lot like Randall Flagg, etc), but in the end, the story is about a father trying to find his son, which makes it different from King's other novels.
Next up, really this time, is The Rule of Four.