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"Passage" is a remarkable work from a remarkable author. I've read it at least twice and it still blows me away. Willis treats the great question of what happens when we die with humor and sadness. Her treatment of the subject of dementia rang especially true. I had visited my grandmother in the nursing home (many, many miles away) when she was very far gone with senile dementia. She was completely unaware of her surrounding. Some of the things she was saying were eerily echoed in "Passage." I h
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Connie Willis creates characters that you really care about. And sometimes she runs them through life changing pain.
"Passage" is a book that does both. You care so deeply for these people that the pain they endure becomes your own. But it is worth it because the questions asked are as important as the people you learn to love.
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"Passage" is a book that does both. You care so deeply for these people that the pain they endure becomes your own. But it is worth it because the questions asked are as important as the people you learn to love.
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Connie Willis does a great job sucking me into her novels with the characters. They always feel real, and they usually end up obsessing about one thing or another. I was very interested at the beginning of the book, but partway through I started to feel let down: I wanted more of an explanation than Connie Willis was able to give me. To the best of my knowledge, we don't actually know much about NDEs and therefore any explanation she gave would be speculation at best, without any real facts to b
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Willis is a very optimistic and humanistic oriented writer. She uses a backdrop of catastrophic events for creating characters who respond to the events with empathy and attempts to help others. Willis's message: Under extreme stress, most people will reach out to help others, putting others' well being above their own. Most people are good, and the cornerstone is empathy.
The catastrophic event in _Passages_ is, quite simply, death. A medical research team uses new technology to observe and ins ...more
The catastrophic event in _Passages_ is, quite simply, death. A medical research team uses new technology to observe and ins ...more
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