The Passage

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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. He 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—towards the time and 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, masterful prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.

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±1±: Best Buy This may be a true vacation reading endeavor. I took this on over the course of a week while visiting Lake Tahoe this summer. I am thankful for the Kindle (not a shameless plug)after seeing the book sitting on the shelf of the bookstore. This is a book that could put you over weight maximum in checked baggage if you decide to pack it.

It is easy to be completely engrossed for the first 2/3 rd's of the novel. Characters are well developed and I felt the connection with them which is a credit to the author. It is more than just another apocalyptic story clone. Science, vampires, government gone bad, survivalist's, commentary on the good (and bad) of the human condition, immortality and the desire that man has to overcome all play out in a sometimes too casual fashion. I wanted the continual tension that this story had an abundance of. When it went missing, it felt a little empty. This was survival of mankind...the ultimate "all in"...the pace could have stayed frenzied and frantic as far as I was concerned and the novel seemed to be at it's best when portraying this world and its characters agonies and struggles...that seems to be the way Cronin wanted the world to be. The waves rise, fall and crest in this story, it's just that the set's are never quite as consistent as you would want them to be (a California metaphor if you will pardon me). It even created an active dialog with my teenage daughter who was debating the relative merits of the Twilight series versus this version of a very dark future, vampires and the not quite so vapid and two dimensional of characters that you can encounter in this genre of literature. I doubt that Cronin was aiming for the casual teen market with this one.

The last 1/3 rd of the novel to me seemed to be a little too much of the set up for the next in the series that we know will be coming. The tale still held form and kept true to itself..it just seemed to wander occasionally to get us on to the next way point. I know that this is a popular and profitable literary construct in this day and age, but, as a reader I want a ultimately satisfying read that stands on its own merits, that makes me want the next book to enhance and extend the story that I enjoyed. I don't want it to just be a continuation to pick up where the last story left off.

Don't get me wrong...I enjoyed this story and the strengths far outweigh the weaknesses. And some of those strengths are in the details and in the engaging characterizations that make this a lengthy novel to take on. A recommendation to read would be easy to elicit from me. Just be willing to understand and push through the inevitable low spots and be accepting of where this story is going to be heading.

Kudos to Cronin for a refreshing and creative take on this genre. on Sale!

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The Passage

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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. He 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—towards the time and 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, masterful prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.

Read More Full Content...

±1±: Best Buy This may be a true vacation reading endeavor. I took this on over the course of a week while visiting Lake Tahoe this summer. I am thankful for the Kindle (not a shameless plug)after seeing the book sitting on the shelf of the bookstore. This is a book that could put you over weight maximum in checked baggage if you decide to pack it.

It is easy to be completely engrossed for the first 2/3 rd's of the novel. Characters are well developed and I felt the connection with them which is a credit to the author. It is more than just another apocalyptic story clone. Science, vampires, government gone bad, survivalist's, commentary on the good (and bad) of the human condition, immortality and the desire that man has to overcome all play out in a sometimes too casual fashion. I wanted the continual tension that this story had an abundance of. When it went missing, it felt a little empty. This was survival of mankind...the ultimate "all in"...the pace could have stayed frenzied and frantic as far as I was concerned and the novel seemed to be at it's best when portraying this world and its characters agonies and struggles...that seems to be the way Cronin wanted the world to be. The waves rise, fall and crest in this story, it's just that the set's are never quite as consistent as you would want them to be (a California metaphor if you will pardon me). It even created an active dialog with my teenage daughter who was debating the relative merits of the Twilight series versus this version of a very dark future, vampires and the not quite so vapid and two dimensional of characters that you can encounter in this genre of literature. I doubt that Cronin was aiming for the casual teen market with this one.

The last 1/3 rd of the novel to me seemed to be a little too much of the set up for the next in the series that we know will be coming. The tale still held form and kept true to itself..it just seemed to wander occasionally to get us on to the next way point. I know that this is a popular and profitable literary construct in this day and age, but, as a reader I want a ultimately satisfying read that stands on its own merits, that makes me want the next book to enhance and extend the story that I enjoyed. I don't want it to just be a continuation to pick up where the last story left off.

Don't get me wrong...I enjoyed this story and the strengths far outweigh the weaknesses. And some of those strengths are in the details and in the engaging characterizations that make this a lengthy novel to take on. A recommendation to read would be easy to elicit from me. Just be willing to understand and push through the inevitable low spots and be accepting of where this story is going to be heading.

Kudos to Cronin for a refreshing and creative take on this genre. on Sale!

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Girl in Translation

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Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.

When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.

Through Kimberly's story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, Girl in Translation is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant-a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.

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±1±: Best Buy Tales of an immigrant coming to America and struggling to succeed are abundant, but Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok tells the story of Kim and her Ma as they immigrate to New York City, in the hopes of the American Dream. Kwok tells Kim's story in chapters, made of short cinematic prose that mimic snapshots of a life, and make it easy to get engrossed in the story of Kim and her Ma. Brought over by her Aunt Paula, Kim and her Ma move into a roach-infested apartment, with broken windows, and no heat. Put to work in a factory that pays "per piece," Kim realizes that in order move out the soon-to-be-condemned building she must do well in school. The novel is told through Kim's perspective, and focuses mostly on her experience at school, with teachers who don't understand her Chinese heritage or that she comprehends very little English. As Kim's English improves she advances in school, scoring very high on her standardized tests, much to Aunt Paula's dismay and envy. In addition to Kim's studies, she must help her mother at the factory where she meets her friend Matt. As the two grow up together in the common setting of the factory, they become really close, with their friendship becoming one of the main centerpieces of the novel.

As I was reading this book I was reminded of the films El Norte and Spanglish, both of which detail immigrants experience, the later in particular with a mother/daughter relationship. However while this book has tones similar to these movies, the novel has a completely different tone. The novel starts when Kim is in sixth grade and progresses until she's thirty and with it comes all the subtleties of growing up. Kwok handles this subject matter with maturity and grace as Kim tries to stay true to what her Ma taught her while assimilating into American society and making friends. It is in this method of storytelling that Kim's voice comes through, to the point where I thought I was reading a memoir and not a novel, and found myself having to keep reminding myself that the volume in my hands was a work of fiction. Kim's voice is so present and alive that it felt like she was in the room as I read the book and found myself relating to her, not as immigrant, but as an intelligent student.

Kwok's personable characters and realistic plot make this story come to life and jump off the page with familiar situations and archetypes. Everyone has had that childhood love interest or a friend who was there when no one else was, and its more likely then not that everyone has one relative that they don't get along with. Even though all readers of this text might not be first-generation immigrants, Kwok elegantly explains the life and colloquialisms of a Chinese immigrant.

However rich the characters may be, the one thing that always makes a novel for me, is when I can't predict the ending. As I was reading this book I found myself anticipating a fairytale ending, but Kwok turned it on its head in the last twenty pages and made me happy and sad at the same time. As such, I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants a delicious and dramatic human story. Readers will be pleasantly surprised to find themselves or someone they know in Kim's personality.

Final Grade: B+ on Sale!

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