Stephen King's Cell
The central trope of King’s latest is quite funny: that cell phones will drive their users mad, turning them into zombies who travel the country like crazed pack dogs. King works in plenty of clever digs at our cell-obsessed culture. (And he makes it clear on the back flap that he himself doesn’t own a cell.)
The first half is a lot of fun, then the story peters out. The main character has to travel by foot through the Northeastern U.S., dodging the cell phone zombies while trying to rendezvous with his son. King attempts to invest this journey with great emotion –- and his prose is graceful and colorful as always — but he didn’t succeed in making me care.