Justin Cronin - The Passage.nfo
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Title: The Passage
Author: Justin Cronin
Read By: Scott Brick, Abbey Craydon & Adendrole Ojo
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Genre: Fiction
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Run Time: 36:45 h:m
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"Cronin's massive novel transcends its cliches and delivers a feverishly readable post-apocalyptic-cum-vampire chiller. It's not only a brilliantly told story, with thrilling plot twists and graphic action sequences, but a moving psychological portrait of survivors facing up to the poignant fact of a lost past and a horrifically uncertain future." (THE GUARDIAN )
"Interweaving the stories of a six-year-old girl abandoned by her mother, a death row murderer and a Harvard professor on a dangerous trip into the South American jungle, this immense brick of a retelling of the vampire myth more than satisfied." (Alison Flood THE BOOKSELLER )
"This epic tale is truly exhilarating stuff but what makes The Passage work so well is not its massive canvas, but the concentration on it's human characters, notably six-year-old redhead Amy Harper Bellafonte." (Barry Forshaw THE DAILY EXPRESS )
"Epic, apocalyptic, heart-wrenching, catastrophic, mesmerisizing..." (Henry Sutton THE DAILY MIRROR )
'Every so often a novel-reader's novel comes along: an enthralling, entertaining story wedded to simple, supple prose, both informed by tremendous imagination. Read 15 pages, and you will find yourself captivated; read 30 and you will find yourself taken prisoner and reading late into the night. It had the vividness that only epic works of fantasy and imagination can achieve. What else can I say? This: read this book and the ordinary world disappears.' (Stephen King )
'Do not be put off by its size. This apocalyptic thriller is epic in scale, terrifying and totally absorbing. Stephen King loves it and the film rights have already gone to Ridley Scott. The hype around this book is extraordinary, but it absolutely lives up to every word. You will not be disappointed.' (W H Smith Fiction Buyer Sue Scholes )
"The Passage is a superbly-written, well-paced and convincingly-characterised novel where the situation and characters remain in the imagination long after it is finished. This could be the start of something major indeed." (WERTZONE blog )
"A truly epic masterpiece that will have you hanging on for dear life for both its conclusion and the next volume." (Maxim Jakubowski LOVEREADING.COM )
"You can't label it a thriller, horror, science fiction, supernatural or literary fiction because actually it's all of those and more. Cronin has a vision and imagination that has no bounds. It's a fantastic read that will grip you, entertain you, horrify you all in one go." (SAVIDGE READS )
Review
Justin Cronin: How I Wrote The Passage
You write the book that asks to be written, and The Passage asked me to write it on a series of long jogs in the fall of 2005, taken in the company of my daughter, Iris, age eight, who rode beside me on her bicycle.
For many years, running has been part of my writing ritual. I do my best creative thinking while running, which I have come to understand as a form of self-hypnosis. It's where I get my ideas, but not just my ideas; on the best days, whole paragraphs seem to drop into my head. I like to say that I write while running; at the computer, I'm just typing.
That fall, four years ago, my daughter asked if she could come along. We had done this from time to time, back when she was first leaning to ride a two-wheeler, and I'd always enjoyed it, even if her presence was a bit of a distraction from the mental work I was actually doing. But it was September, blazingly hot, and the novel I was working on was in a bit of a stall. Sure, I said. Get your stuff.
"Well what do you want me to write about?" I asked.
She took a moment to think. We were running and riding, side by side, moving down the flat, wide sidewalk of our neighborhood in the autumn heat.
"A girl who saves the world," she said.
I had to laugh. Of course that's what she'd want me to write about. Not just a town, say, or a small city, but the entire world!
This was before every teenage girl in America had gone crazy for vampires. I knew absolutely nothing about them, beyond the common lore.
"The redhead I get. Why vampires?"
It was a classic dare, and I knew it. Writer Rule #1 is Never Let Anyone Else Tell You What to Write. But I also knew we had five hot miles ahead of us.
"Like a game, you mean," Iris said.
"Sure. We can toss ideas around, see if we can work it into a story. Who knows? Maybe it will be good and I can write it."
And then a funny thing happened. As the weeks went by, I began to think this story actually could be a book, and that it was actually a better book, a much better book, than the one I was actually supposed to be writing. And not just one book: saving the world seemed like the kind of undertaking that would take three books to accomplish. The story that became The Passage had begun to fill my head, to breathe and walk and talk--to be populated, as someone once said, by "warm new beings" I actually believed in. Amy and Wolgast. Peter and Alicia (the redhead Iris had requested). Lacey and Richards and Grey and Sara and Michael-the-Circuit--a character who is a kind of boy-Iris, actually, and very much her creation. I had been a literary novelist all my professional life, with a literary novelist's habits and interests; but I had cut my reader's teeth on plenty of genre fiction--adventure novels, science fiction, westerns, espionage. Enough to know that in the end it's how you write the thing that matters, and if you love it. Be interesting, Iris had told me. There's no harm in it, and your reader will thank you. It seemed like good advice. For three months, Iris and I traded ideas back and forth like a ball we were moving downfield; by December, when the cold weather came and her bicycle went into the garage, we had the plot worked out, right down to the final scene. I felt sad, as if something wonderful was ending, and I decided not to let it end; I sat at my computer and began to write an outline, so I wouldn't forget it.
And when that was done, I decided I would write the first chapter. Just to see how it felt.
And so on.
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