> In article tornado.socal.rr.com>, Kid Mustang
> says...

>>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I don't understand the ending of "Cell". As a matter of
>>fact it pissed me off. It's not a happy ending or a sad
>>ending, it's not an ending at all. It's kinda like when you
>>are writing an essay for a mid-term and you run out of time
>>and you turn in an unfinished project.
>>
>>I don't appreciate reading almost 500 pages just to be
>>dropped like that. Can anyone give me any insight into
>>King's reasoning?
>>
>>Have you ever spent a bunch of time planning the first date
>>and spent a lot of money on everything only to get a
>>handshake and then a door closed in your face? Ya, it's
>>kinda like that. :-(
>>
>>KM

>
>
> i must be the only person who liked the ending of Cell. the true ending of
> the
> story was pretty much the final scattering of the phone-crazies. the story
> with
> his son was pretty much an epilogue to the larger story, at least these
> are my
> thoughts.
>
> i don't know, sometimes when you get older the situations don't come to us
> so
> cut and dried, and that's how I thought King left it, at least with the
> main
> protagonist and his son. for the larger world we are left with a sense of
> relief
> at the scattering of the phone-crazies (as we are with the destruction of
> Las
> Vegas in the Stand), but do single individuals outside of Hollywood-land
> ever
> get a nice wrapped-up ending with everything turning out ok? we didn't get
> a
> "happy ending" with the end of the Dark Tower either, and that didn't
> bother me,
> either. :)
>
> anyway, i liked the ending, and i liked that i wasn't told everything with
> the
> protagonist son ended slappy-happy.
>
> just my thoughts. :)
>
> GB
>
>
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>
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