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This is one of the most frustrating books I have ever read. It took me over a month to power through it. I was going to give up many times. It is densely written & could have used some good editing. There are too many characters to keep straight or care about. Occasionally characters would DIE and I would have no recollection of who they even were. It is dreary and dark and depressing. And yet, I kept reading it. And reading it. Once I was about 40% in, I did not want to quit and powered through
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Feb 08, 2011
Sunflower
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Short answer: if you have read "The Stand" and "The Road" you don't really need another dystopia novel. Especially as long as this one.
Longer answer: It has a slow start, only really got going at the 100 page mark, the plot started to get really interesting at about half way, then had patches of brilliance followed by lapses. And as for the ending: you've got to be kidding me Mr Cronin!!! I finished 766 pages just to find a setup for the next book?? Were you hoping for a Harry Potter-like pheno ...more
Longer answer: It has a slow start, only really got going at the 100 page mark, the plot started to get really interesting at about half way, then had patches of brilliance followed by lapses. And as for the ending: you've got to be kidding me Mr Cronin!!! I finished 766 pages just to find a setup for the next book?? Were you hoping for a Harry Potter-like pheno ...more
Apocalyptic zombie vampires. Three words to sort of describe this tome. It had a lot of layers. And took quite some time to plow through. But enjoyable. I did prefer the first 1/3 of the book - the making of The Twelve, I suppose. However the last 2/3 were interesting in the aspect of their survival.
So if you slog through a really long book and then the ending lets you down, you feel like the many hours you put into the thing were all wasted. The Passage falls into this category. I think it is divided into 11 parts, and really no book needs to be divided into 11 parts.
There were a lot of characters to keep track of in this in this book, but he needed lots of people to kill off, so they just kept popping up. For the most part it was fairly well written and the relationships with characters ...more
There were a lot of characters to keep track of in this in this book, but he needed lots of people to kill off, so they just kept popping up. For the most part it was fairly well written and the relationships with characters ...more
Finally finished! Like I said before-the fact that it took me so long to read this was no reflection on the book but in the end I feel like I did lose something in taking a month to read it. Again, my fault, not Justin Cronin's. Real review to follow.
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Scary! This takes the term "going viral" to a new high, or low. When secret lab releases a deadly virus into the world, several individuals try to find the remaining "normal" people who are holed up in several places.
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Jul 13, 2010
Christa
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Nov 29, 2010
Katie
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Nov 17, 2011
Betty
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Sara
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Ashley
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Misty
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Feb 22, 2016
Cora
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1st-in-series,
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Jan 06, 2017
Rachel N.
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Dec 08, 2017
Rebekah
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Mimi
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