Bernardas Šliamka

It is a book about death. About death as a natural life cycle process. About reconciliation with death, and also about the impossibility of reconciliation. About what a painful process it is for those around the events. The book show Rachel's attitude not to talk about the death as a subject, showing that the death of a loved one is a thing that can destroy another life, develop constant fears that are difficult to get rid of, especially if the death was accompanied by hate. Also, it is a book about how children accept the concept of death, the difficult realization that everything that has a beginning ends. It’s also a dialogue with the reader about the uncertainty of what’s next, if there is anything at all. "Pet Cemetery" is a very clear signal about a person's sacrifice for family, loved ones, but at the same time about the need to evaluate decisions not in a stressful situation, because sometimes spontaneous decisions do not lead to anything good. However, the question is: if there was an opportunity to do something impossible and good for your loved ones, but with a huge risk of getting the situation even worse, would you be determined to do so? Is the phrase "I would do everything for my loved ones" really right? . Overall, this is a fantastic bookng, and I read it very quickly. From that constant curiosity ...

I read the "Cell" immediately after finishing the legendary "Pet Cemetery". I don’t know if because of this reason or because of the stylistics and plot of the novel itself, only the second half of the book became more interested for me. Although the action began on the first pages, it seemed like I was reading a long description of another regular film about an apocalypse and a zombie attack. The idea that mobile phones created an impulse that suddenly forced people to change, at the beginning seemed quite strange and I doubted that it would work in the plot later, but I admit the author did it really masterfully, although some things still seemed pretty funny in the end. It is worth noting that the book was published in 2006, even before the beginning of the era of smartphones, when the number of simple mobile phones on the market was growing, they were rapidly changing the wired phones. Of course, innovation often causes a certain wave of opinion in society - there will always be a group of people who are happy with innovation, who will see new things as a step into the future, but there will also be citizens who have a different opinion, look at everything with a fear of change. It seems that this book might been some kind of reaction of this group, of course, by moving everything into the plot of the horror genre. However, in general, the work certainly did not attract as much as some of the author's other works. If I can read some of Stephen King's books in a day or two because it's just too hard to put them away (this category includes the "Pet Sematary", "Green Mile", "Misery" and a few other pieces), it took much longer for me to complete the "Cell" . I’m not saying the book is bad, and, indeed, I liked it altogether, but compared to other books, this one is, in my opinion, is weaker.