Justin Cronin
Hardcover | Pages: 766 pages Rating: 4.04 | 178617 Users | 19058 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Passage |
| ISBN: | 0345504968 (ISBN13: 9780345504968) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://enterthepassage.com/the-passage-by-justin-cronin/ |
| Series: | The Passage #1 |
| Characters: | Brad Wolgast, Lacey Antoinette Kudoto, Phil Doyle, Giles Babcock, Olson Hand, Theo Jaxon, Ida Jaxon, Sara Fisher, Mausami Patal, Caleb "Hightop" Jones, Amy Harper Bellafonte, Peter Jaxon, Anthony Lloyd Carter, Michael "The Circuit" Fisher, Hollis Wilson, Alicia Donadio, Jonas Abbott Lear |
| Setting: | Telluride, Colorado(United States) Las Vegas, Nevada(United States) Roswell, New Mexico(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2011), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Favorite Book and for Science Fiction (2010) |
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IT HAPPENED FAST.THIRTY-TWO MINUTES FOR ONE WORLD TO DIE, ANOTHER TO BE BORN.
First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear--of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.
As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he's done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. Wolgast is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors, but for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey--spanning miles and decades--toward the time an place where she must finish what should never have begun.
With The Passage, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterly prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.
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| Title | : | The Passage (The Passage #1) |
| Author | : | Justin Cronin |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 766 pages |
| Published | : | June 8th 2010 by Ballantine Books |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction. Science Fiction. Fantasy. Paranormal. Vampires. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic |
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I already know I'm not going to be able to fully convey how much I enjoyed reading this book - I suppose that's always true to some extent, but when it comes to a story so involved and complex, a few paragraphs on my part won't really do it justice. It took me a month to read, which is fairly slow for me. There were two reasons for this: I was simultaneously rereading a pile of Saddle Club books, and got completely lost in childhood nostalgia and a much-loved familiar world. I also found that II finished it! 1000 pages set in a dystopian setting in which people all around America start getting a horrendous virus that makes them eat other people. In other words, they become modern Draculas but in an intriguing and very disturbing way (not like Edward in Twilight!). I was in the mood for a dystopian read and I definitely got one with this book. Im pleased to have finished it (because it is after all 1000 pages long!), but Im also pleased that there are two more books to come since this
I AM BABCOCK.I have never, ever, ever read about the world going to s*** in a more realistic way. This series has the potential of getting into my TOP 5. If not TOP 3. I understand why many people didnt like the second half of the book; it was because the first part was so damn good that everyone wished it would never end! I wished it too. I stayed till 4AM to finish that first part and it took a while to get used to the sudden time jump. But I came to the conclusion that as it is, the story is
THE PASSAGE is a lot like the month of March. It comes in like a vampire thriller and goes out like a batty soap opera. And it's big! Spreading its bat wings, it measures in at 766 pages (or at least the ARC version does). TWILIGHT this aint, and regular vampire fare it isnt either. Its a hodgepodge of Bram Stoker, Tom Clancy, Stephen King, and John Steinbeck: one if by vampires, two if by military games, three if by bloodbath, and four if by brotherly melodrama.Overall I liked it. Honest. I don
I've had this book and the second of it's series for awhile. They set on my bookshelf and just look pretty. I would have read them one day...and then the third one came up on Netgalley. I have a Netgalley problem and I requested it, thinking that it would push me to read these. Yeah right.Then my buddy Edward Lorn started reading this. He started posting updates. He teased me enough that I couldn't keep ignoring these books. Damn it. So this does have one of my favorite 'end-of-the-world'
when i read horror, i'm usually looking for: (1) cheap thrills or (2) surreal and metaphysical weirdness or, best of all, (3) an epic full of dread and melancholy . there is plenty of the first sort and so much of it is trash. but fun can be had with trashy things and i'm no snob. the second type can be a little more hard to find, but there's a lot to be had as well, if you look in the right places, especially the past. but the third kind, that's the hardest, i've only found a few. Declare, It,
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