Stephen King's "Cell" to Become a Miniseries

I liked this book, but as a classic King book the events doesn't get explained in the end, which is kinda frustrating. I wonder if they will keep it that way for the series.

Those King tv miniseries are soooo...what's the word...?..awful.

He's Right the opening chapters of thsi book were great, but thats about it, after that it turns into a really bad hodge podge of abruptly ended story lines and bad character development, not a great king novel at all

Cell was an entertaining read, but flawed in King didn't address the text messaging craze.

The book i sonly a few years old. How is that 'classic' King? Carrie is classic. It is classic. Cell is just career bookend rubbish.

'carrie'?....oh man...that was a fantastic story....the 2nd one was decent for an attempt to resurrect it...but obviously not better

Well fuck...this will blow now.

"Classic King", Minkowskim, is thrown at the King novels that are PURE horror...So Cell certainly is CLASSIC KING. Duma Key, Hearts in Atlantis- those were not pure horror. Carrie would be 'vintage' King...

If you're thinking 'classic' only pertains to things old- you must be royally confused when critics say 'instant classic'.

God I hope they put this on Showtime or HBO, if not it will suck balls and I won't even watch it. Fucking Roth.

this is different and could be good, alot of stephen kings books becomes movies id like to see how this does in a mini series and almost all of stephen kings books are good movies

Huge fan of King, but I would be perfectly okay with them changing the ending (and a few other things) in this one.

NBS or ABC this will certainly suck balls...but I totally agree that if this lands on Showtime or HBO as a miniseries it will be filled to the brim with talented unknowns and it will flat out rock.

Sorry NBC...haha I'm too used to txting NBS to shorten up "No bullshit".

what about the end, it blew so I hope they fix it in this series

Classic is all the old King stuff that didn't suck. Duma Key is garbage, Hearts in Atlantis same, Bag of Bones trash. Et cetera.

The ONLY decent books he's written in the last ten years are: From a Buick Eight and Blaze. Blaze is an older story he finally finished and FAB8 was just his "broken clock right once day" event. The dude hasn't had anything good to read in a LONG time.

When you, or anyone else talk about classic King, it should be clear. When you speak of a 'classic' King book, you're essentially referring to his 'golden age', his peak, his better times. Not 'instant classic' or classic as referred to in antique car verbiage. Period. Only a muck wouldn't get the usage.

BTW, nothing, books, cars, films et cetera are ever 'classic' if they suck. I can see what you mean when you say 'classic King'. You mean a book that harkens back to the stories that mad him famous, the typical horror genre epitome that he's well known for. That's not what I'm talking about.

In short: the guy has definitely slid downhill. He hasn't had a decent book in a while. The days of short stories like 'The Jaunt' are long since past. Classic King, to me, is the older good shit, not the newer junk only a madman would call 'classic' in the way you've done.

Peace out.

Buick was good, but not great. i would of thought though with him almost being killed in that wreck it would of made him go back to his darker days of writing, perhaps scare him so bad that he had ideas about death and how horrific real life can be. But obviously not. But as a mini series this could work. I mean the stand was alright, but carrie, pet cemetary shawshank, those were good horror films. Especially Shawshank that would be real life torture being convicted of killing your wife when you actually didnt..

What happened to King? He got OLD. People lose that rage, that angry verve and they start to accept life as they get older. As I understand it, King was a very angry person. He had issues. He drank heavily, and he did cocaine. He was on the edge and bleeding raw. That gave him what he needed to pump out books full of darkness and despair. He was a guy lost and in need of therapy, I guess, and he self-medicated through his writing.

Now, he's moved past much of that, and he just writes mechanically, running on the shadow of steam that once fired his creative engines.

Sad to say.

And FAB8 rocked for me because his depiction of what came out of the trunk, and the mysterious nature of the car and it's 'driver' really hooked me. I was enthralled. Fuck, I was taken in not so much by the 'horror', as it wasn't that kind of book really, but by the otherworldly nature of the subject matter. My imagination made the book more real than I think even King intended. It and FAB8 are my favorite King books. And Blaze. And the first Dark Tower. Roland the Gunslinger. And the s.s. The Jaunt. And many others. lol.