2010-09-04
Though it contains shades of other works (notably "The Stand"), it somehow manages to put itself in a class all its own, setting a new standard for genre fiction, and is a book that writers
old and new will seek to imitate in the hopes of surpassing it.
.... The author needs to create both a deep intimacy with the characters, and an expansive, strange-but-familiar universe that we can be immersed in. The Passage is one of those
rare books that has both these elements. ...