Reddit reviews The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)
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The Passage by Justin Cronin. I had heard it was very good, and there was quite a bit of hype surrounding this novel which kind of put me off a bit. It's been sitting on my bookshelf for over a year.
Turns out it's rather splendid. A couple of plot holes (it's about vampires after all), but excellent none the less. I was so pleased I actually bought the Kindle version because the large trade paperback version I had was too ungainly for comfortable late-night reading.
Guillermo del Toro has a series out now, I have read The Strain and The Fall. AMAZING books! Vampires done right! Book 3 just got released, The Night Eternal
I also really liked The Passage
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The biggest buzz in recent years has been around Justin Cronin's The Passage. Its a post-apocalyptic tale of immense scope, the first of a trilogy.
Cool I will check it out. I just read The Passage which seems a little similar to Newsflesh. Instead of zombies they are vampire zombies and the entire book feels a little too much like The Stand but I would still recommend it if you have nothing better to read.
How has this not been done yet...
Seriously though, go get her The Passage
I really, really loved Justin Cronin's The Passage. It's book one of a trilogy (book two is The Twelve, which was also very good, and book three isn't out yet). It's not quite prepper fiction, but it is an apocalyptic horror/thriller, and in my opinion is well worth reading.
Try The Passage by Justin Cronin.
For a series, consider Eon by Greg Bear, it continues with Eternity and Legacy, since you like the Flood/Ark set.
Ok, sorry it took so long, but maybe try Spice and Wolf light novels, Konosuba, Death March to a Parallel World, and No game no life.
If the manga light novels aren't your style, then perhaps The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, or The Passage by Justin Cronin.
I read the first three books and loved them. Read AFFC ... and thought it was crap. When ADWD came out I read it ... and again thought it was crap.
A few years later, I figured I must have sped through AFFC and ADWD or otherwise done something wrong. I re-read AFFC. Although it was a little better than I remembered, it was still not very good. My brother suggested interleaving AFFC and ADWD as recommended by some of the guides on the web but honestly I don't have the heart or the time to bother.
I'm a show guy now. Going forward, I will treat the new material as canon and will forget about the books.
For now.
If Martin finishes the series in the next two books as promised, and if the reviews are good, I can see re-reading ADWD and then reading the final books some day. Maybe. I gave up on Neal Stephenson after he followed Cryptonimicon with a series of 1000-page tomes. I'll have no problem giving up on Martin too. There are too many good books out there.
After ASOIAF, I discovered Justin Cronin's The Passage and The Twelve. The third AND FINAL book in this trilogy just came out and it's gotten good reviews. It's nothing like Martin's work, simply a reminder that there are other equally good series out there.
Ive only recently (past 2-3 years) that I've really got into reading. No one really introduced me to reading growing up and was just stuck playing with my hand me down cars. As for recommending a book, I read The Passage by Juston Cronin. It's a post apocalyptic tale of survival about vampires, but not the 'sparkly' type either. About half way through the book, when a main character dies, I remember feeling as if I was living it and right next to this character and inside their thoughts. I've never been moved like that before and I still remember it clearly.
Another is 11/22/63 by Stephen King if you're into subtle time traveling (not scientific at all) mixed with the 50s-60s era and some romance, alternate time line deal. Took me by surprise but it was an amazing book.