Cell (spoilers involved)

[LadyHitchhiker]

I'm wondering what everyone thinks of the book The Cell and whether we can have a little bit of a what iffery going on? The poll will explain more...

[LadyHitchhiker]

Alright so poll didn't work.

But here's the question anyway:

What would you do if everyone who answered the phone turn into a monster?

Run away and hide
Take people's phones away from them
Kill them
Try to find a way to fix them
Something else...


Let's discuss!

[Jean]

Liz, do you want me to add that poll?

[John Blaze]

it's not The Cell, honey, just Cell.

and I'd call them to tell them not to answer their phone

[Matt]

That always intrigued me about it because it seemed like it wasn't the who you called, just if you used it at all.

I'm really not a cell phone person at all because when I'm off--I'm off!

You can reach me at home on the land line.

But to answer the question. I believe in this day and age we are all so ready for some kind of zombie creating pulse (virus, meteor, monkey) that we are ready for just about anything.

Hole up, do some killing--get some supplies and then head out.

I think the bigger question in this book is about the idea of rebooting the human brain with a type of EMP. Can you imagine if Crichton wrote it?

[mia/susannah]

I would start calling all the people I did not like and let the braver people take care of them with my help

[LadyHitchhiker]

Liz, do you want me to add that poll?

If you would dear...

[John Blaze]

I would start calling all the people I did not like and let the braver people take care of them with my help

and the second you checked to see if you had a tone you'd be one of those taken care of, honey.

[Randall Flagg]

I added the poll, with the option to vote (once) for more than one selection.

[Jon]

The option "kill them" means the people right?

[Storyslinger]

I don't have must compasion. I'd kill them

[obscurejude]

I personally loved this book. I think its a great commentary on the current trends that I perceive as threatening in modernity- a continued reliance on technology which has become a theodicy in and of itself. This was one of my favorite recent King books. I really don't like zombies, and so I was really surprised about how much I dug this book. But, I guess its because its not really about zombies. In King's universe, I don't think the Amish would have any trouble, and that is who I want to emulate in this regard.

[Daghain]

I voted kill them. Especially that dude in the Harvard shirt.

[obscurejude]

Yeah, fuck the guy in the harvard shirt.

[LadyHitchhiker]

Even if Stephen King himself had turned into one???

[Brainslinger]

I'd probably run away to start with, then I'd pick up a phone and call the police or ambulance service. If I was at home and could access the home phone, all well and good. If I used my mobile phone... well then I'd probably run out in the street and try to eat someone.

That's the beauty of that story isn't it? If something bad happens, one of the first things someone does is picks up their mobile (or cell phone in Americanese) and the it's gotcha. My answer was given with the assumption that I wouldn't be aware of the cause of course.

[jayson]

bang bang

[ladysai]

I would run and hide. It seems like everyone and his uncle has a cell phone...way too many to kill by myself.

[mia/susannah]

I would start calling all the people I did not like and let the braver people take care of them with my help

and the second you checked to see if you had a tone you'd be one of those taken care of, honey.

Not really, I don't have a cell phone and never have, thank goodness or it would be me that was taken care of

[obscurejude]

Interesting, so if you called someone's cell from a land line then you'd be okay and they would get fucked up?

[Brice]

I'd start randomly calling all the fuckers who ever pissed me off.

[mia/susannah]

Interesting, so if you called someone's cell from a land line then you'd be okay and they would get fucked up?

That is the way I think it works. Has been awhile since I read Cel. But if that is the way it worked, there are a few people I would call from my landline just to mess them up.

[Brice]

Interesting, so if you called someone's cell from a land line then you'd be okay and they would get fucked up?

That is the way I think it works. Has been awhile since I read Cel. But if that is the way it worked, there are a few people I would call from my landline just to mess them up.

Exactly what I was suggesting.



...and, yes that is how it works.

[mia/susannah]

Interesting, so if you called someone's cell from a land line then you'd be okay and they would get fucked up?

That is the way I think it works. Has been awhile since I read Cel. But if that is the way it worked, there are a few people I would call from my landline just to mess them up.

Exactly what I was suggesting.



...and, yes that is how it works.

Great minds think alike.

[Jean]

...and, yes that is how it works.

how do you mean, works???