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Fiction.
Science Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? The end of the world was only the beginning.
In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Now the scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic story surges forward . . .
In the present day, as the man-made apocalypse unfolds, three strangers navigate the chaos. Lila, a doctor and an expectant mother, is so shattered by the spread of violence and infection that she continues to plan for her child??s arrival even as society dissolves around her. Kittridge, known to the world as ??Last Stand in Denver,? has been forced to flee his stronghold and is now on the road, dodging the infected, armed but alone and well aware that a tank of gas will get him only so far. April is a teenager fighting to guide her little brother safely through a landscape of death and ruin. These three will learn that they have not been fully abandoned??and that in connection lies hope, even on the darkest of nights.
One hundred years in the future, Amy and the others fight on for humankind??s salvation . . . unaware that the rules have changed. The enemy has evolved, and a dark new order has arisen with a vision of the future infinitely more horrifying than man??s extinction. If the Twelve are to fall, one of those united to vanquish them will have to pay the ultimate price.
A heart-stopping thriller rendered with masterful literary skill, The Twelve is a grand and gripping tale of sacrifice and survival.
Look for the entire Passage trilogy: THE PASSAGE | THE TWELVE | THE CITY OF MIRRORS
Praise for The Twelve
??[A] literary superthriller.???The New York Times Book Review ??An undeniable and compelling epic . . . a complex narrative of flight and forgiveness, of great suffering and staggering loss, of terrible betrayals and incredible hope.???Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
??The Twelve is even better than The Passage.???The Plain Dealer
??A compulsive read.???San Francisco Chronicle
??Gripping . . . Cronin [introduces] eerie new elements to his masterful mythology. . . . Enthralling, emotional and entertaining.???The San Diego Union-Tribune ??Fine storytelling.???Associated Press
??Cronin is one of those rare authors who works on two different levels, blending elegantly crafted literary fi… (lisätietoja)
Well, I can't help myself, I'm a finisher unless I truly loathe a book or series and Cronin has me attached to some of the (surviving) characters. I found book 2 uneven--occasionally veering awful close to the egregiously gross/graphic-- but the characters, as I say, hold me. Some stuff toward the end during the climactic scene got too vague, as in, I could not figure out what was happening, or what I was meant to be thinking was happening. And a couple of other things had me cringing, but I will give Cronin the benefit of the doubt and move on to book 3 as, with some aspects of the 'situation' resolved (or appearing to be, who knows, I'm not spoiling) one character is venturing out into the rest of the world, off the north american continent and I am sure much else, still needing resolution will be tackled.***1/2 ( )
(2012) To fill in the back story of The Passage, we see how the Virals spread across the country and the effort by a group of insurgents to stop it . Pretty good, although too many balls in the air to keep track of.KIRKUS REVIEWCronin continues the post-apocalypticor, better, post-viral¥saga launched with 2010's The Passage.The good citizens of Texas might like nothing better than to calve off into a republic and go to war with someone with their very own army and navy, but you wouldn't want to wish the weird near-future world of Cronin's latest on anyone, even if it means that Rick Perry is no longer governor. Readers of The Passage will recall that weird things have happened to humankind thanks to¥sigh¥a sort-of-zombie-inducing virus unleashed by, yes, sort-of-mad-scientists who were trying to create supersoldiers out of ordinary GIs. You may be forgiven for thinking of The Dirty Dozen at that point in the plot, but the ?virals? in question are far badder than Telly Savalas and John Cassavetes. Enter Amy Harper Bellafonte, known Eastwood-esquely as The Girl from Nowhere, whose job it is to save humankind from its own dark devices. Amy's chief butt-kicking sidekick is a virally compromised cutie named Alicia Donadio, ?scout sniper of the Expeditionary,? who has a weirdly telepathic way of communicating with the baddies. The tale that ensues is pretty generic, in the sense that the zombie/virus/sword-and-sorcery genres allow only so much variation from convention; if you've seen the old Showtime series Jeremiah, then you'll have a good chunk of the plot down. Cronin serves up a largely predictable high-concept blend of The Alamo and The Andromeda Strain, but his yarn has many virtues: It's very well-paced. It's not very pleasant (?A strong smell of urine tanged in her nostrils, coating the membranes of her mouth and throat?), but it's very well-written, far more so than most apocalypse novels, and that excuses any number of sins. And it's always a pleasure to see strong women go storming around as the new sheriffs in town in a world gone bad, even if they're sometimes compelled to drink blood to get their work done.A viral spaghetti Western; it's not Sergio Leone¥or, for that matter, Michael Crichton¥but it's a satisfying confection.Pub Date: Oct. 16th, 2012ISBN: 978-0-345-50498-2Page count: 640ppPublisher: BallantineReview Posted Online: July 29th, 2012Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1st, 2012
If you've read The Passage you'll be happy to know this is more of the same quality--I was so worried that I would be disappointed in the second book. I couldn't stop reading it but I didn't want to get to the end! One niggling complaint-I had some trouble keeping the characters straight but I'm inclined to think that says more about me than the it says about the author. These two books transcend any genre. If Mr. Cronin totally drops the ball on the third book he's still got a classic. How many books have you read that can freak you out so much you sleep with a light on and make you ache with sadness for even the creepiest characters? Great stuff. ( )
In spite of this novel's literary pretensions, to wit the high minded epigraphs at the beginning of each book, this is in the final analysis a pulp. That said, it's a damn good one.
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She stood beside me for years, or was it a moment? I cannot remember. Maybe I loved her, maybe I didn’t. There was a house, and then no house. There were trees, but none remain. When no one remembers, what is there? You, whose moments are gone, who drift like smoke in the afterlife, tell me something, tell me anything. - Mark Strand, "In the Afterlife"
Omistuskirjoitus
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For Leslie, foot-to-foot
Ensimmäiset sanat
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For it came to pass that the world had grown wicked, and men had taken war into their hearts, and committed great defilements upon every living thing, so that the world was a dream of death;
Sitaatit
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Watch the clock. Know the location of the nearest hardbox. When in doubt, run.
Hence the major problem with immortality, apart from the peculiar diet: everything began to bore you.
Give people hope, and you could make them do just about anything. And not just your average, everyday kind of hope--for food or clothes or the absence of pain or good suburban schools or low down payments with easy financing. What people needed was a hope beyond the visible world, the world of the body and its trials, of life's endless dull parade of things. A hope that all was not as it appeared.
They became their enemy, as all must do; they ceased to be slaves, and so became alive.
"Because that's what heaven is," said Amy. "It's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there."
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Fiction.
Science Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? The end of the world was only the beginning.
In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Now the scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic story surges forward . . .
In the present day, as the man-made apocalypse unfolds, three strangers navigate the chaos. Lila, a doctor and an expectant mother, is so shattered by the spread of violence and infection that she continues to plan for her child??s arrival even as society dissolves around her. Kittridge, known to the world as ??Last Stand in Denver,? has been forced to flee his stronghold and is now on the road, dodging the infected, armed but alone and well aware that a tank of gas will get him only so far. April is a teenager fighting to guide her little brother safely through a landscape of death and ruin. These three will learn that they have not been fully abandoned??and that in connection lies hope, even on the darkest of nights.
One hundred years in the future, Amy and the others fight on for humankind??s salvation . . . unaware that the rules have changed. The enemy has evolved, and a dark new order has arisen with a vision of the future infinitely more horrifying than man??s extinction. If the Twelve are to fall, one of those united to vanquish them will have to pay the ultimate price.
A heart-stopping thriller rendered with masterful literary skill, The Twelve is a grand and gripping tale of sacrifice and survival.
Look for the entire Passage trilogy: THE PASSAGE | THE TWELVE | THE CITY OF MIRRORS
Praise for The Twelve
??[A] literary superthriller.???The New York Times Book Review ??An undeniable and compelling epic . . . a complex narrative of flight and forgiveness, of great suffering and staggering loss, of terrible betrayals and incredible hope.???Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
??The Twelve is even better than The Passage.???The Plain Dealer
??A compulsive read.???San Francisco Chronicle
??Gripping . . . Cronin [introduces] eerie new elements to his masterful mythology. . . . Enthralling, emotional and entertaining.???The San Diego Union-Tribune ??Fine storytelling.???Associated Press
??Cronin is one of those rare authors who works on two different levels, blending elegantly crafted literary fi
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