The Passage by Justin Cronin

[Neon Maniac]

I'm about 2/3 through this book, and I'd highly recommend it. I've put a copy in the library.

[shiki-jitsu]

Awesome.

I need to make some donations to the library.

[Neon Maniac]

For the most part, I've just been reading from it still, unless I go out and seek something in particular. If it's good, I'll donate it, if it's meh, I'll just toss it.

[Elijah_106670]

I think I was kind of backwards on that one, because I really, really enjoyed the first half of The Passage.

SPOILERS

When it's all current-day, still, I was having a great time. But then there's that huge time-skip and it's all post-apocalyptic, and I completely lost interest. I still need to pick it up and finish it, at some point, but it just did not hold my attention...

[Neon Maniac]

You missed out on a fantastic book then.

I agree, the first modern day part was really good. And it was kind of hard to be in the future all of a sudden, but it really picks up and he slowly feeds you everything that's making you say WTF? What's that about? slowly. So you do learn how the world went from the first part to the second part, and what that second part is really all about now. He actually does that really well. At the same time you're learning the small pieces of what happened to the world, you're also learning in small pieces what it means and what it takes to live in the current world. Those slow, small pieces of both worlds are very well thought out, and by the time you're up to speed you realize how fucked everything truly is.