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.