![]() Poet James Gardener enters the ship and telepathically lifts it into outer space, killing everyone in town who was affected. On top of that, their bodies begin to break down and mutate as they transform into something inhuman. The climax of the book reveals the ship to be of alien origin. ![]() After a strange ship in the middle of the woods emits a noxious gas, the town's inhabitants turn into geniuses with no real knowledge of the things they're creating. What Happens: Something strange is happening in the small town of Haven, ME. That being said, King's pulpy writing is incredibly fun to read, and as much of a drag as that this ending is, it's a wild ride to get there. Cell's climax has all of the hallmarks of King's worst endings - an explosion that happens out of nowhere and a vague ending that hints at more to come (of which there won't be). The Problem: There's nothing worse than an ending that feels like it should read: The End.? Some audiences love that kind of mystery, but it's unlikely that King will ever revisit this story, which can make reading a novel of this size feel like wasted effort if you're not totally locked in.īut Maybe: It's hard to fault Cell's ending for being bad when the whole novel is incredibly pulpy. His son's brain is fried due to a "dirty" pulse that went through his brain, and Clay suspects that another pulse will set him back to normal. Along the way, protagonist Clay Riddell tries to find his son in the increasingly chilling Northeast.Ĭell ends with Clay finding his son after playing a part in blowing up a field full of phoners. What Happens: When a mystery pulse blasts out across the world and turns everyone using a cell phone into a zombie (AKA "phoners"), the surviving "normies" set out to turn their loved ones back into regular human beings. He also tackles the ecological destruction of the planet with as light of a touch as he can. Written at the height of the Iraq War and the tail end of the second Bush administration, King explores what it means to be a community when the people in that small world have vastly different opinions. The Problem: So much of this book is an engrossing look at a post-9/11 world, but to just end things with teenage aliens removing the dome is such an eye-rolling ending that it undoes all of the nuance that comes before.īut Maybe: Under the Dome is King's most political work. When multiple people from Chester's Mill touch a strange object left in the town, they're inundated with visions of alien creatures that they refer to as "leatherheads." As toxic fumes fill the dome, asphyxiating the people inside, the cynical editor of the local newspaper reaches out to the aliens and asks them to remove the dome. ![]() ![]() People are disemboweled, they're gassed and tortured, and all of that happens against the backdrop of one looming question: Who did this? People turn against one another and their worst traits come out in the name of conspiratorial thought. What Happens: When the small Maine town of Chester's Mill is covered with an invisible semi-permeable dome, the townspeople understandably grow agitated and afraid. ![]()
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