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If my mind was going to be wiped, I wouldn't mind it being filled with Britney 8-)
by Alexandra Matoshko, Kyiv Post Staff Writer
Sep 06 2006, 21:04
Walking along traffic-free Khreshchatyk this weekend, I casually glanced at one of those advertisements lining the street, and what I saw made me stop to take another look. The ad showed the cover of a book I’ve seen before with “Stephen King “Zona Pokryttya” (Coverage Zone) scrawled across it. Curious version of the book name, I thought, although naming it “Mobilnniy” would have sounded much worse. The original English-language title of the book—Stephen King’s latest novel—was “Cell.” I was looking at the announcement of its upcoming release in Ukrainian translation.
A couple of months ago I was desperately searching for the English version of the book at some of Kyiv’s book stores, and I almost gave up. But then a friend sent me a “zip” file via email with the original text of the book. A few weeks ago, I spotted “Cell” at the bookstore at Globus – a hardcover version, pricey at $30. Additionally, I was already halfway through reading the version on the computer. And now “Cell” will be released in Ukrainian—as far as I know it will be the first official translation of a King novel into Ukrainian ever. This seems like another attempt to beat the Russian book industry, like when the Ukrainian version of the fifth Harry Potter novel appeared well before the Russian one, having the effect of making the Ukrainian release a massive bestseller. So, since the “Cell” hasn’t yet appeared in Russian, the Ukrainian book will likely be a big hit. By the way, King wrote this book after promising never to write anything apart from short stories anymore.
The book itself is another apocalyptic vision of the future from the king of horror, and it reads like a mix of his own previous novels and George Romero’s zombie films, only this time the its modern technology bringing on the apocalypse. As noted in the end of the novel, Stephen King himself doesn’t own a cell phone. Sounds ironic, considering that after reading the book some people may start having second thoughts about using their phones, which means, genius or not, King has yet again reached his goal.