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>"On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built"
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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
>
>
>You're not alone. I loved Cell. What a great zombie movie it will make...(I
>hope).
you are right! i think it would make a GREAT zombie-end of the world movie!!!
the small details that King inserted as the story went along, with the shoes on
the doorstep bit, and others. and the moment when the main protaginists are met
at the door by the phone crazies after they killed a number of them in the
football field was just creepy as hell.
>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.
exactly. i liked that part of the ending where it the story cuts right at the
point where he's about to try and see if the reverse effect on the cellphone
will change his son back to normal. i could see it visually, like a film.
>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.
indeed. i truly loved how that story ended, and did not see it coming, even
though yes, i DID notice all of the hints throughout the story. it reminded me
of the time i saw the Ibsen play, "Romersholm," and was totally suprised and
caught off guard by the ending, because i didn't see it coming.
that's how the ending of the DT caught me as well.
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
