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The Passage by Justin Cronin
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I am a little less than halfway through "The Passage," and I cannot decide what to think about it. At certain points I get really interested and into it, but then the story really seems to lull and I just want to stop reading. Also, some of the graphic descriptions are a little much for me. Anyone else currently reading this and having these issues?
The book is believable, though further out than 2018. The desire to save children to continue society is well-meant. Any society would probably attempt their continuation. The use of death row prisoners seems simple, project should have stopped when obvious problems started, but this is a book with a sequel. I am not a fan of this genre, but was fascinated by the loss of history and complete desertion. Reading how a new society might develop was interesting. Were there other Noah's? How did they evolve?Where did one unique girl get her powers? How can anyone not read the sequel?
I was very skeptical in the beginning of this book. I did not know what to think about the "zombie/vamps/virals." However, after the background storylines were set, I really got into the book. I agree with Sandi, there were so many questions left unanswered that I had to go buy the sequel! I haven't read it yet, but I am looking forward to it.
2. Does the military make the right choice in undertaking Noah? When so much of society is under constant threat of violence, is there a moral imperative to do whatever is scientifically possible to save the country from collapse?
3. Why does the military choose the name Project Noah? Talk about the irony behind the name—especially its Biblical reference to the destruction of a flawed race.
4. How far should society let science proceed in its research to alter biology? At what point do we say "no" to the human desire for ever greater knowledge?
5. Inmates on death row are offered a life sentence if they agree to participate in the government's experimental drug program. Is it moral to enroll murderers and rapists in medical research studies?
6. If you've read other vampire, horror, techno-thriller, or post-apocalyptic works, how does Cronin's compare? Do you see any any similarities? Consider Stephen King's works...or those of Michael Crichton, Cormac McCarthy, Susan Collins, Margaret Atwood, George R.R. Martin...and any others that come to mind.