I find Greg Bear's 'Dead Lines' to be quite a dismal read. Much ado over so little. I think it would be quite a bit before I pick up another Greg Bear novel.

It was about an ex-soft porn movie director, Peter Russell who found on receiving a new-flangled mobile phone that it accessed forbidden channels and affected the environs by attracting spirits. The descriptions of his sojourns throughout California was a little nostalgic but that was just about the only redeeming feature besides the descriptive prose.

I do have two more unread novels written by Bear somewhere on my shelves. Sigh.