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> "On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built" Yahoo.com> wrote in
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>> 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

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>>
>> 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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>> "I like to drink, I like to drive, I like to think all of the Jews got
>> out of
>> the Holocaust alive, my name is Mel, and can't you tell, I like Tequila!"
>>
>> Denis Leary

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>
> You're not alone. I loved Cell. What a great zombie movie it will
> make...(I hope).
> I don't think leaving a story open ended is so bad. As you stated real
> life
> is often just that. I also think that is the point, if something like that
> could happen
> IRL, we'd just have to wait to see how and what might be waiting in the
> future.
> To fill in all the blanks is yet another story.
> As to the tower.....he gave us hints all along as to how it would end. To
> me any other ending would not have
> made sense. Like the infinity symbol ...turn right it's one view, turn
> left it's a different view but either way it always
> brings you back to the start.
> Tee
>

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