Comments on: What Am I?

By: Young Bill Young

Young Bill Young — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:01:21 +0000

Thanks, Christine. Yep, lots of unanswered questions. And that whole ending with Sara’s Diary was pretty spooky, too!

It hadn’t occurred to me that something truly strange might be going on with Peter since he didn’t have the dreams. Interesting.

Luckily, more will be revealed. (But not until 2012. Waaa!)

By: Young Bill Young

Young Bill Young — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:15:33 +0000

Thanks for the link, Reg!

Meanwhile, on the social networks…

Facebook Friend Richard is also a fan of The Passage. Here’s our conversation, wherein we fault the author’s knowledge of Oklahoma History:

FB Richard: I agree. I finished it last week. I have read many, many post-apocalyptic novels through the years, and seldom find a new one that interesting. I even thought The Road, though well-written, was not very original The Passage is definitely an exception. It kept my interest from beginning to end. Of course the author needed to do a little more background work on Oklahoma history, but I can forgive him one slight anachronism.

YBY: Yeah, those Okies calling their state troopers “staties.” What was *that* all about? LOL. But, Richard, I too forgave him his Sooner ignorance.

FB Richard: My problem was with the date the courthouse was built. I don’t have the book to look it up, but I believe he had it somewhere in the 1850s. I can pretty well guarantee there were no court houses built in Western Oklahoma in the 1850s.

YBY: Oh absolutely! I caught that, too. It really would have been stretching it to have any courthouse standing anywhere in Oklahoma in the 1850s, but placing it in the Western part of the state was especially problematic.

By: Christine D.

Christine D. — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:05:59 +0000

Excellent, so glad there’s going to be a sequel or two. Lots of unanswered questions, like what Peter is (he doesn’t have the dream of Babcock like everyone else) and what happened to the people of the Colony (and those of Homer, OK). All the time I was reading it, I was thinking what a great movie it would make.

By: Reggie Jet

Reggie Jet — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:35:40 +0000

There’s a review of this book in a recent issue of Locus. Cronin said the book is a response to his daughter who asked him to write a book where a little girl saves the world. I thought that was pretty cool.

And about King and Cronin:

http://www.suite101.com/content/the-king-praises-the-passage-by-justin-cronin-a259906