Sure glad I didn't have to wait for the second book to become available.
That was one hell of a cliffhanger at the end of Book 1.
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Posted by Kerry Burgess at 4:50 AM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Thursday, November 01, 2018
Homestead Day 1861
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Dragnet (1951–1959)
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Sgt. Joe Friday: All we know are the facts, ma'am.
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 7:46 AM Thursday, September 15, 2011
Hyperspace
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful test of my hyperspace portal ) is 9265 days
The Twelve: A Novel (Book Two of the Passage Trilogy)
Justin Cronin
(Amazon Kindle Version)
"The Twelve" is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) To 10/16/2012 is 7885 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/5/1987 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Computer Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia ) is 7885 days
From 11/4/1954 ( premiere US film "You Know What Sailors Are" ) To 10/16/2012 is 21166 days
21166 = 10583 + 10583
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/24/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) is 10583 days
Future updates by me personally guaranteed
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The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy): A Novel (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy) Kindle Edition
by Justin Cronin (Author)
Publication Date: October 16, 2012
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Justin Cronin's vampire apocalypse 'The Twelve' improves on first book
Updated Oct 16, 2012; Posted Oct 16, 2012
By John R. Alden
Ballantine 568 pp., $28, on sale Oct.16.
The hardest part of a trilogy is the middle volume. The first book draws us in, and the third wraps thing up, but volume two can feel as tedious as a twelve-mile detour.
So although I loved "The Passage," the first book in Justin Cronin's vampire apocalypse trilogy, I opened the "The Twelve" hesitantly. Would he sustain our fascination or would the tale founder in a swamp of digressions and gore?
"The Twelve" is even better than "The Passage."
The first volume required a lot of back story. The jungle expedition, a secret government lab, the dozen death row inmates infected with a genetically modified virus -- it was exciting stuff, but not as viscerally engaging as the tribulations of the very human characters in the before-and-after halves of the larger plot.
When the "virals" escaped, Cronin's story exploded. The monsters killed remorselessly and multiplied with every nonfatal bite. In a matter of months, civilization was destroyed.
Ninety-some years later, all that's left are a few fortified refuges, a human population counted in thousands, and 40 million virals.
Not far into that first book, Cronin reveals that humankind ultimately recovers. But whenever we thought we'd glimpsed a passage to that future, he dashed our hopes.
In hindsight, there are a series of foretellings scattered through "The Passage." The most important is when Amy, a quasi-mute child-woman who's barely aged for 90 years, blurts out an unlikely claim. There aren't 40 million virals, she says -- "There are twelve."
With minor variations, "The Twelve" replicates the structure of "The Passage." There is a "Year Zero" adventure and a "Year 97" story that builds on events in the initial volume.
The Year Zero story is a splendid prologue to the surprises -- and they are big ones -- awaiting readers. It introduces new characters, including several who are crucial to subsequent developments, and the writing flows as smoothly as a politician's promises.
Cronin's descriptions skitter between the everyday and the unimaginable. Here a busload of refugees cross rural Ohio: "At a mini-mart where they stopped for supplies, the cashier, glancing out the window at the bus, asked, Can I go with you? On the wall behind her head, a television screen showed a city in flames. She spoke in a hushed tone so as not to be overheard. She didn't ask where they were going; their destination was simply away. A quick phone call and minutes later her husband and two teenage sons were standing by the bus, holding suitcases."
The Year 97 story unspools amid the ruin. Figures we met in "The Passage" face more complex, and sometimes more gruesome, challenges. And while much is resolved, there's plenty of drama left for the concluding volume.
At its heart, Cronin is writing a parable of damnation and redemption -- a message emphasized by the story's host of Christian symbols. The weapon of choice against the virals, the crossbow, is called a "cross." And it is hardly coincidental that there are 12 tribes of vamps led by 12 hellish apostles, or that humanity's hope rests in a child.
Cronin's apocalypse novels prove that good writers needn't stay mired in realism. And make no mistake. Cronin is a very good writer indeed.
John R. Alden is a critic in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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ON THIS DAY 26 February
1991: Iraqi troops flee Kuwait City
The Kuwaiti capital has been liberated by the Gulf War Allies after 208 days of Iraqi occupation.
Thousands of Iraqi troops began leaving the city after an order from President Saddam Hussein, broadcast this morning, to withdraw immediately.
He said he was ordering the retreat because of "the aggression of 30 countries against Iraq" and the economic blockade led by the US.
The first group of Allies into the city centre was a reconnaissance team of 12 US marines
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Jaws (1975)
Quotes
[Hooper is examining the remains of the first victim - describes the post-mortem into his tape recorder]
Hooper: The height and weight of the victim can only be estimated from the partial remains. The torso has been severed in mid-thorax; there are no major organs remaining...
Hooper: Right arm has been severed above the elbow with massive tissue loss in the upper musculature... partially denuded bone remaining...
Hooper: [to the m.e. and Brody] This was no boat accident!
Hooper: [to Brody] Did you notify the Coast Guard about this?
Brody: No. It was only local jurisdiction.
Hooper: [continues post-mortem] The left arm, head, shoulders, sternum and portions of the rib cage are intact...
Hooper: [to Brody] Do not smoke in here, thank you very much.
Hooper: [lifts up the severed arm] This is what happens. It indicates the non-frenzied feeding of a large squalus - possibly Longimanus or Isurus glauca. Now... the enormous amount of tissue loss prevents any detailed analysis; however the attacking squalus must be considerably larger than any normal squalus found in these waters. Didn't you get on a boat and check out these waters?
Brody: No.
Hooper: Well, this is not a boat accident!
- posted by Kerry Burgess 2:09 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 01 November 2018
