Cell
Cell
The next call you take could be your last in this terrifying #1New York Times bestseller by Stephen King — soon to be a major motion picture starring Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack.
There’s a reason cell rhymes with hell. On October 1, 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. He’s just landed a comic book deal that might finally enable him to support his family by making art instead of teaching it. He’s already picked up a small (but expensive!) gift for his long-suffering wife, and he knows just what he’ll get for his boy Johnny. Why not a little treat for himself? Clay’s feeling good about the future.
That changes in a hurry. 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. Everyone’s cell phone. 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.
There’s really no escaping this nightmare. But for Clay, an arrow points home to Maine, and as he and his fellow refugees make their harrowing journey north they begin to see crude signs confirming their direction. A promise, perhaps. Or a threat…
恐怖大師史蒂芬‧金的駭世寓言
改編電影,約翰庫薩克、山繆傑克森主演,2016/8/12毀滅倒數!
★熱賣突破300萬冊!入圍美國文壇奧斯卡「鵝毛筆獎」!
手機(cell)與地獄(hell)一詞押韻,其來有自……
請小心接聽史蒂芬‧金的追魂奪命叩!
十月一日,世間萬物一切如常,住在緬因州的漫畫家柯雷來到波士頓,漫步走在波尤斯敦街上,腳步輕盈,甚至幾乎是又蹦又跳,因為他才剛簽下了出版合約,總算有機會以畫漫畫養家,而不必再勉強靠教畫糊口。興奮之餘,他買了一件昂貴的小禮物想送給長年陪他吃苦的妻子,也想好了該買什麼禮物送給兒子強尼,順便再犒賞自己一下吧!柯雷只覺得前景一片光明美好。
無奈好景不長,剎那之間天下大亂,四處盡是混亂與血腥,人性褪盡表相,僅剩下最原始的本能……柯雷僥倖逃過一劫,與少數劫後餘生者相遇後,發現人類文明已陷入了最漆黑的暗夜。但柯雷一心只想回到緬因州老家探視妻兒的安危,於是他夥同幾位難民一起北上。沿途中他們不斷看見彷彿密碼的塗鴉:『卡什瓦克=無話』,這究竟是一絲希望的曙光,還是潛藏著更駭人的兇機?……
現代人彷彿片刻都離不開手機,根據聯合國統計,全世界共有超過25億支手機,台灣也有超過2200萬支手機,沒有手機者寥寥無幾。但史蒂芬‧金以扣人心弦、緊張刺激的情節傳達了他對現代科技的反思,更傳達得震懾人心!
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小心!千萬…不要…打手機!
史蒂芬‧金重回他最拿手的恐怖路線,功力不減當年!雖看似新瓶舊酒,卻對活死人和異界以電波為入侵人間工具等已有的構想做出另一番表現。其中對流行文化的嘲諷,尤其有令識者會心的效果。──【資深譯者兼影評人】景翔
這部科幻恐怖新作《手機》,結合了影史傑作「活死人之夜」經典元素的殭屍,以及象徵現代人際網絡的行動電話,史蒂芬.金巧妙地設計了無線電波、人腦、潛意識、夢境之間的隱晦關聯,完成一場以未來科技為題的惡夢啟示錄。──【恐怖、推理作家】既晴
沒有情節鋪陳,也不給人心理準備,一場人類的末世浩劫,打從本書一開始就震撼登場,而且一路重衝擊到底,幾乎沒有喘息的空檔。──【中國時報副總編輯兼主筆】張慧英
一把刀貫穿心臟拔出時湧現的鮮血有多少?就像是這本書帶給讀者的震撼力,從字裡行間迸裂激射出的詭譎刺激,有如濺在臉龐的點點血花,令人不敢直視,卻又清楚嗅到濃厚血腥味道。誰是拿著這把刀刺傷我們的兇手?絕對是他,史蒂芬‧金!──【作家】黃願
老實說,像史蒂芬‧金這種天王級的作家,根本不用多做介紹,我只是藉這個機會,向他公開致敬!──【作家】葉李華