Obviously you are not going to get answer from that person, so I'll do it.
Hey, hey. Chill. Here's my response.
I think The Passage is worth a try, if you're into horror. The beginning is enthralling, with a military focus and a gradual reveal of the capabilities of the creatures that have been created by the inevitable out-of-control virus. The military takes death row prisoners and infects them with this virus with the intention of creating super-soldiers, and it goes wrong. This first part of the book is kind of like a prequel in the novel itself. Then, as vodov said, it jumps forward in time to a walled community with depleting power sources, facing the possibility of being invaded by the zombie-vamps. It kind of lost me here, with too much focus on side-interactions and not enough focus on the main narrative. Cronin has that Stephen King-like tendency to go off on a tangent into the characters' lives, and I think that the plot suffers because of it. This is what I meant by "hard slog".
I don't agree that it's a "well written movie script that's pretending to be a serious thought provoking book [sic]". I would describe it more as a literary foray into the horror genre, one which perhaps mixes too many concepts, and which tries to head down too many paths at once, and ends up fulfilling none. That being said, this is apparently the first book of a trilogy, so maybe these loose ends will be more fulfilled later in the trilogy. I can't imagine the scope it'll incorporate by its end, but Cronin's definitely got something big planned.
So there you go, my thoughts. What do you reckon, will you give it a try?
Hey, hey. Chill. Here's my response.
I think The Passage is worth a try, if you're into horror. The beginning is enthralling, with a military focus and a gradual reveal of the capabilities of the creatures that have been created by the inevitable out-of-control virus. The military takes death row prisoners and infects them with this virus with the intention of creating super-soldiers, and it goes wrong. This first part of the book is kind of like a prequel in the novel itself. Then, as vodov said, it jumps forward in time to a walled community with depleting power sources, facing the possibility of being invaded by the zombie-vamps. It kind of lost me here, with too much focus on side-interactions and not enough focus on the main narrative. Cronin has that Stephen King-like tendency to go off on a tangent into the characters' lives, and I think that the plot suffers because of it. This is what I meant by "hard slog".
I don't agree that it's a "well written movie script that's pretending to be a serious thought provoking book [sic]". I would describe it more as a literary foray into the horror genre, one which perhaps mixes too many concepts, and which tries to head down too many paths at once, and ends up fulfilling none. That being said, this is apparently the first book of a trilogy, so maybe these loose ends will be more fulfilled later in the trilogy. I can't imagine the scope it'll incorporate by its end, but Cronin's definitely got something big planned.
So there you go, my thoughts. What do you reckon, will you give it a try?
