The Passage by Justin Cronin

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Just finished this and really enjoyed it, so many thanks to whoever on here recommended it. I felt it was a bit derivative of 'The Stand' but that his characterisation and the scale of it was enough to allow me to forgive him!

What did everybody else think of it?

I loved it but was slightly disappointed by the ending but....... he has the sequel comingout next year!

Yes - agree re the ending and I'm glad to hear that there will be a sequel.

Two things puzzle me -

1. Why didn't the doctor (Lears) take the virus himself as well as giving it to Lacey?
2. Who was the ghostly protector of Theo at the farm?

Hello again colonel...

Its been a while since i read it but i remember also being a bit disappointed. I thought the book as a whole introduced far too many characters for you to remember or indeed care about. But it was definitely gripping.

I look forward to No 2.

Personally, I think Lears didn't take the virus because he wanted to end the cycle made by himself. I don't think Lacey would have really wanted to take it either but she wanted to be there for Amy.

I don't remember a ghostly protector of Theo. I thought he just died from being attacked by Maus' (was that her name) exe blind husband?

I kind of cross-read The Passage with 'Carrion Comfort' by Dan Simmons. Another great book and a full-on read

Hi. :) Thanks for all that.

Theo didn't die though - he was being attacked by a viral (which turned out to be Galen, Maus' ex) but somebody/something/somehow shot Galen just before he could kill Theo.

I didn't mind the number of characters - really liked and cared about many of them. I thought the number of characters and the attachments I formed to them worked better than (for example) King's 'The Dome' where it got to feeling like they meant as little as ants (and indeed that was about the sum of it!).

Ohh - I think you've all missed something

Really.

Read it again.

I loved it

I read stupidly quickly (read The Passage in about 6 hours) so I am v likely to have missed something! C'mon - spill. :)

Nooo, read it again yer speedy f*ker

Ok, may spill

What may you have missed??

Amy?

Blimey, I read it last summer so can't remember any details - please spill. I'm crap at reading between the lines so have probably missed a big part/meaning of the book.

No - I read between the lines

Nope - I still have no idea what you're talking about. All I could think was that the 5th member of the family (the one who had dug the four graves) was still hanging around somehow but that didn't explain the feeling of luck that Theo and Maus had there and that clearly was a true feeling. Am obviously still missing something.

Still loved the book though.

Or Wolgast somehow?

And what happened to Fanning?

Bump.