Next on my list of books to listen to is “The Passage” by Justin Cronin. “The Passage” is already being dubbed by washingtonpost.com as a novel
“for adults who’ve been bitten but can’t swallow the teenybopper misogyny of Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series.”
I’m willing to admit that I did enjoy listening to the Twilight series. The audiobooks were very well done by Listening Library and Ilyana Kadushin’s narration sucked me in. However I did feel a little awkward listening to what was basically a vampire romance novel.
Anyway, the review by washingtonpost.com isn’t what convinced me to purchase this audiobook. It was Stephen King.
Every time I hear a book recommendation from Stephen King it gets me moving. Either straight to the library, bookstore or to my audible.com account. When he says it’s good I can usually take it for granted that I’m going to love it. When I saw a tweet come through @audible_com saying that Stephen King said when you read The Passage “the ordinary world disappears” I was immediately hooked and I was downloading it to my ipod about 10 minutes later.
So as soon as I finish the last 35 minutes of the book I’m listening to now (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo which has been excellent by the way) I will be happily immersing myself into the world of “The Passage”. I’ll let you know if it lives up to the hype.
I’m about halfway through “The Passage” and so far it is awesome!
“That was when he heard the sound coming beneath the underpass.. a soft, wet ripping like sheets of damp paper being torn in half or the skin being torn off an orange fat with juice…” from “The Passage”
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