具体描述
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: KASHWAK=NO-FO. A promise, perhaps. Or a threat...
There are one hundred and ninety-three million cell phones in the United States alone. Who doesn't have one? Stephen King's utterly gripping, gory, and fascinating novel doesn't just ask the question "Can you hear me now?" It answers it with a vengeance.
作者简介
Stephen King lives in Maine with his wife,the novelist Tabitha King.He does not own a cell phone.
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读后感
对不起,我刚看了第一页,就忍不住要说话了。 第一页上有这样一句话,“这个年轻人大概是用小BB来庆祝某个小小的胜利吧,可能这胜利不一定很小。” 可能这胜利不一定很小。这位上海译文出版社的翻译大姐,您会说话吗? 真败兴,我都懒得再看下去了,都知道我这人没什么耐心...
上班路上就差不多看完了这本书,可以用极快的速度翻过,创意是不错的,然而和很多好莱坞大片一样,大多数时候你可以知道作者(导演)的意图只是为了让你更着急与好奇。但其实你只是无动于衷地看它耍把戏,你清楚地知道它没有带你陷落到故事里。 有闪光点,可惜太分散,很多时...
这部小说让人不禁想起前段时间美国热映的电影『我是传奇』。事实上,据说斯蒂芬·金在创作本书的时候亦的确是借鉴了『我是传奇』等经典作品原著的构思。 不过,斯蒂芬·金尽管是个制造惊悚故事的顶级高手,但操作『手机』这样带有科幻内容的题材时却明显表现出力不从心:技术...
用手机脉冲引发人类大脑清空并被输入统一指令的创意很新鲜,但是恐怖气氛比较松散,没有情节步步推进的感觉 细细
用户评价
个人觉得Steven King 的科幻的设定过于天马行空,而且从来不屑于解释,不过好像好多人喜欢这种
A horrible adventure. Like the ending!
A different tone from what I remember reading as a kid; there's not much plot, a third of the way in and the three main characters are still just sitting around; the language and symbols aren't as strong or dark as I remember either. Written for NYC/Ameri
读过的第一本史蒂芬的恐怖小说,真不错啊,诡异气氛逐步升级,让人欲罢不能。主人公们面对危机的执着精神也让人感动,尤其是Clay对于儿子的执着,真的是父爱的最好阐释。结尾出的悬念也留得恰到好处,没有happy ending那么俗不可耐,也没有让人丧失对美好的向往。极力推荐。
这个小说吧,现在时代看来可能科技感弱了很多。但是情景描述,故事层级都还是很棒的,惊悚专家嘛。人物塑造也很鲜明,但是感觉老金多少在很多地方有各种个性偏见,用词也比较刻薄,包容心很弱。