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Indlæser... The Passage: A Novel (udgave 2011)af Justin Cronin
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Blændende godt fortalt gys, som spænder over flere ulige genrer. Vampyrer, nybyggere, marinesoldater, road-movie, dannelsesroman - den har det hele. Først og fremmest er det dog en vampyrfortælling og i lighed med Guillermo Del Toros "Blod", ikke en særligt romantisk en af slagsen. Det er imidlertid i de andre genrer bogen glimrer. Vampyrskildringen er lige lovlig kantet og arver lidt for meget fra førnævnte "Blod" og sammen med dén, alt for meget fra Richard Mathesons "Jeg er den sidste". Til gengæld er historiens episke sider ualmindeligt velfortalte og ingen følelser lades urørte. Et monstrøst værk, der med sine 1000 sider er alt for kort, omend lidt tung at have med i seng. (  ) bogtlib | Dec 13, 2010 | 
 I turned The Passage's pages feverishly to find out what happened next. Cronin leaps back and forth in time, sprinkling his narrative with diaries, e-mail messages, maps, newspaper articles and legal documents. Sustaining such a long book is a tough endeavor, and every so often his prose slackens into inert phrases (“his mind would be tumbling like a dryer”). For the most part, though, he artfully unspools his plot’s complexities, and seemingly superfluous details come to connect in remarkable ways.  When all's said and done, The Passage is a wonderful idea for a book that – like too many American TV series – knows how good it is and therefore outstays its welcome. There are enough human themes (hope, love, survival, friendship, the power of dreams) to raise it well above the average horror, but its internal battle between the literary and the schlock will, I  T MAY already have the Stephen King stamp of approval and the Ridley Scott movie-script treatment but American author Justin Cronin's 800-page blockbuster The Passage comes from humble beginnings. "Every book starts somewhere and this came from a dare of a nine-year-old child," he says of his daughter Iris, who wanted a story where a young girl saves the world.
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