Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Amy, I read it when I came out and really loved it. Sadly, its sequel is a mess, which was mightily disappointing. It's a trilogy though, so I'm hoping Cronin will tie it all together in the end.
Jesse, yes, I see him in the role easily. As soon as I read Gone Girl, I read her first two books. Very dark and gruesome, and I loved them.
I have the same thoughts on The Passage (and the sequel) that javachik does.
My biggest issue with The Passage was that it needed more editing. It didn't need to be almost 800 pages.
It is pretty indulgent, but so far I don't mind. Sad to hear about The Twelve, though I know I'll probably read it anyway.
I also like that I didn't know it was set in a not-too-distant future. The world is pretty much the same as we know it, and then suddenly he's talking about the Mall of America Massacre or New Orleans being turned into a giant petrochemical factory or border checkpoints and it all seems chillingly plausible.
It's definitely worth reading, despite the let down, Amy.
The Passage was an interesting experiment on use of the Kindle. A friend recommended it without telling me a single thing about it. I downloaded it without reading anything about it, and obviously I didn't have the book jacket for hints or clues. So it was so much fun being completely surprised by the plot and themes. It would have been a totally different experience had someone handed me the paperback.
Agree with everything above about The Passage, especially the editing. That book so did not need to be that long. I read it without knowing it was a trilogy and was very sad when I realized after over 700 pages that it was not going to be resolved.
I found the second volume hard to get into because I had forgotten so many details of the first one. So, when I saw the hardcover of #1 at Goodwill, I bought it so I could re-read at my leisure before the third installment (which I am looking forward to despite disappointment by #2).
As soon as I read Gone Girl, I read her first two books. Very dark and gruesome, and I loved them.
Oh yeah, I was wondering about her others. Good one!
As soon as I read Gone Girl, I read her first two books. Very dark and gruesome, and I loved them.
Me too. She needs to write more books soon, or I need to find another writer whose works are that dark.
SJ, right??!
I got Dark Places and I had trouble getting into it -- the protagonist was unlikeable in a way Nick wasn't, for me. I'll pick it up again later, though.
Truly, I went into a little bit of book withdrawal after I was done with all of them.