I haven't read much of Stephen King (I can only recall reading Pet Sematary, Thinner and some other stuff) although I've watched pretty much every horror movie that's out there, including all of King's novel-to-film adaptations. This one doesn't strike me as horror at all for some reason. Perhaps I'm quite numb to the idea of zombies (telepathic or not) and need seriously gory or disturbing stuff to get freaked. Anyway the phone-crazies in this novel aren't even zombies - they're like different kinds of humans. I didn't get horrified or repelled by them at all after their initial run-amok-and-kill-everything-in-sight phase, more like pitied them and wanted to help them somehow. Probably that kind of mentality would get me killed in a horror story so I'm never getting into one.The premise is pretty disturbing, of course, and King is a good storyteller to be able to milk so much out of a pretty simply storyline with no major complications or twists. It does not have the riveting page-turning intensity of a Crichton thriller but the characters are slightly better fleshed out and you feel more for them. This is not one of King's best so you won't miss much if you skip this one, but it's not a bad read either simply because of his narrative skills. Try his other titles if you really want a spine-chilling time.
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