Mystery/Thriller Reading Friends discussion

so on one of the bouchercon threads, we were talking about reading the twelve as a group read- first book of the year for 2013. who's in?

me.

What is The Twelve?

it's the sequel to The Passage by justin cronin. some of us read it together last year.

I am in!

I'll do it if I can get a nook copy from someone in time. drat if I only did a grab and run at the bookstore during the winner's party. I already had my bag of books I won. but then I knew I would never be able to go back to the store or be in next year's contest and "Win"

Sherry wrote: "so on one of the bouchercon threads, we were talking about reading the twelve as a group read- first book of the year for 2013. who's in?"

I didn't read The Passage. Should I read it first?

Cathy wrote: "Sherry wrote: "so on one of the bouchercon threads, we were talking about reading the twelve as a group read- first book of the year for 2013. who's in?"

I didn't read The Passage. Should I rea..."

yes! the twelve is the sequel to the passage.

Cathy wrote: "
I didn't read The Passage. Should I read it first?
..."

Definitely, Cathy. It's a BFB and I'm sure The Twelve will reference some of that backstory. There's also a large thread where we discussed The Passage when a bunch of us read it last year I think. In fact, now that I think of it, I'll probably go back over that thread before I start The Twelve to remind myself of the characters/story. From the little I've read so far, though, it sounds like The Twelve picks up the story at a different point.

Cathy: it would be fun if you read it with us, The Passage was a good group discussion book.

I'm in on the grp read when the time comes don't know if I said that already or not.

So for those of you interested in the group read of The Twelve, sequel to The Passage by Justin Cronin, I have put a series of discussion threads, by Part, up in the Spoiler topic. I think we said we'd start in January.

I'm planning on starting it when I finish the boy in the suitcase.

i'll start it probably next weekend- i hope to finish the panther this week.

For those that are wondering about how much they remember of The Passage, the prologue of The Twelve gives a succinct but effective summary.
I should have the audio to start by the end of the week on the first Library Saturday of 2013!

Ann wrote: "For those that are wondering about how much they remember of The Passage, the prologue of The Twelve gives a succinct but effective summary.
I should have the audio to start by the end of the week ..."

I saw that as I was logging the chapter titles. Since I have an ARC at first I thought it was some kind of summary of chapters for The Twelve, which bugged me (you know how I hate spoilers). Then I peeked a little more closely and saw it was a summary of The Passage.