![]() ![]() ![]() The phone crazies evolve, they begin to flock together and develop a sort of telepathy.īy using cellphones, which have become the dominant form of communication in our daily lives, you simultaneously turn the populace into your own conscript army – an army that’s literally afraid of nothing, because it’s insane – The pulse delivered through the mobile phone system wipes clean a person’s mind and sends them back to basics, like a computer rebooted and they become unreasoning killers. Only the few not using a cellphone are spared. Suddenly people attack strangers, break things and speak in wild inarticulate cries (“ Gluh“, “ Rast”), all as a consequence of the brain zapping that the book calls The Pulse. The protagonist, Clay, a phone-phobe was down from Maine touting his graphic novel. As he usually does, King takes the reader straight into the action, on a pleasant October afternoon in downtown Boston everything suddenly goes crazy. If you have a cellphone you are doomed: the girl on the right might survive.Ĭellphones are everywhere these days and that is the cornerstone of this apocalyptic horror story. ![]()
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