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Shnooks posted:Desperation was bad, but Cell was atrocious. I haven't read it since I was a teenager but I remember Desperation being decent. The scenes with the big cop were cool at least. Yesterday I didn't feel like getting out of bed so I read Cell. The first chapter detailing the initial wave of the disaster was actually quite good and made me want to continue reading. Unfortunately whoever it was that noted Cell's unique status as a book wherein every chapter is worse than the one before it was absolutely correct. The novel started almost as strongly as The Stand and ended up being another magical retard extravaganza. Between Cell and "From a Buick 8" I think I have finally found the heart to tell my mother that I don't read King anymore so she stops giving his novels to me. 
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Adar posted:Didn't King *never finish this*? When I last saw any mention of this book years ago, he didn't get enough people to donate money for more chapters so he just stopped writing it, screwing everyone who did donate in the process. I just looked it up since it sounded too pathetic to be true, but it is. He hasn't touched it since 2001. It feels wrong to say this about an author I loved as a child but goddamn King is a horrible person and terrible (When he's not coked up) author. I'm still holding onto the hope that he'll relapse back to drug-fueled crazytown and start writing interesting novels again.
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