The Passage by Justin Cronin
06-29-10 | 08:22 AM
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Re: The Passage by Justin Cronin
Finished it Saturday, and overall I liked it quite a bit. Self-contained enough to be a standalone, yet with enough dangling bits for future volumes.
06-29-10 | 12:38 PM
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Re: The Passage by Justin Cronin
Met Justin Cronin last night in Denver at the Tattered Cover ... About a hundred people there, and he was an interesting dude, talking about the way he approached the vampire mythology, based it more in the real world ... Young guy, friendly and funny, with almost unnaturally straight, white teeth ... He said it would be about 2 years before part 2 comes out.
I liked the way he presented himself. Well spoken, intelligent, and funny. And the section he read certainly makes me want to read the book.
06-29-10 | 12:52 PM
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I started this on Sunday. So far, so good. Definitely feels King-ish in how indepth Cronin goes into character's back stories and motivations.
06-29-10 | 04:32 PM
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Haven't read it yet, but was very pleased to get this as a birthday gift a couple of days ago. I plan to start delving into this after the 4th of July.
06-30-10 | 12:10 PM
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Despite the dislikes, I still powered through this in just over a week. Tough to put down at times.
07-01-10 | 09:15 AM
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Finished this yesterday & I totally agree with all of TimeandTide's complaints above. Its definitely worth reading, but almost feels like a different author wrote the book after they extremely gripping first third of the novel. I never really cared for any of the future-characters mostly because they had no distinct personality except Lish who was just a stereotype (tough female warrior). Also the last third of the book was a bit sloppy, too many characters kept coming & going, the action was boring. The last few pages were really good though.
A good summer read, worth reading, but certainly not worth the hype.
A good summer read, worth reading, but certainly not worth the hype.
07-19-10 | 08:35 AM
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I'm a little bit past the jump ahead, and agree with all of those who said that it slowed down. At this point in the story, it reminds me of A Song of Ice and Fire for some reason that I can't quite put my finger on. Regardless, glad to hear that it starts to pick up the pace a bit, especially since I am not even halfway through the book yet.
07-24-10 | 07:13 PM
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I have read many good reviews of this book. My sister recently read it and liked it. She borrowed it from a friend but she said she is planning to buy a copy and she told me she will lend to me. I'll probably be reading this book sometime in the next few weeks.
07-27-10 | 01:14 PM
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I personally think all of the mentions in this thread of the "jump" should be deleted. I knew nothing about this book when I started it, I had no clue it did that when I got to that point, & personally I prefer to find those things out on my own, rather than have someone tell that the story will jump forward in time. But maybe thats me.
That said I'm around 350 pages in & I too don't like the change in story, characters, or particularly writing style (although I guess this speaks a lot for the great talent that the author is). But I have no clue where the story is going & clearly it is of such an epic scale I'm by no means writing the book off. It just right now isn't as riveting as I found the pre-jump story to be.
That said I'm around 350 pages in & I too don't like the change in story, characters, or particularly writing style (although I guess this speaks a lot for the great talent that the author is). But I have no clue where the story is going & clearly it is of such an epic scale I'm by no means writing the book off. It just right now isn't as riveting as I found the pre-jump story to be.
Sure.
On the whole a giant MEH. It's interesting how little action there actually was in the book, and how much of it was people standing around yakking or giving each other deep meaningful glances of unrequited love. And the descriptions of the actual attacks by the dracs sucked, no good gooshy bits whatsoever.
I do have a question which I will spoiler box for the losers out there who bleat and shriek about such things:
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07-27-10 | 07:19 PM
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Huh? I have no idea what you are referring to? Nobody told me about the jump, I wrote that I didn't know about it when I read the book. And I never once said I hated the book, I said it doesn't live up to the hype but its worth reading.
07-28-10 | 06:32 AM
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07-28-10 | 10:41 AM
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I'm about 250 pages in so far and I'm hooked. I'm not a huge fan of the "vampire" angle and I can see things getting very cliched... but I'm hoping for the best because my last few novels have been The Road and The Dark Tower series (both excellent) and Dan Brown's latest novel (not so excellent).
09-15-10 | 01:42 PM
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Finished this book today! It was excellent and I cannot wait for the second book -- the only bummer is the two year wait. I could easily see this translated to a big action flick.
09-15-10 | 03:19 PM
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03-04-11 | 07:04 AM
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Spot on, my friend! I am at that point in the book right now and seriously considering ending this torture. I am not at all engaged with any of these (far too many) characters.
