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May252010
What the hell is Project Noah?
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 6:13AM
OK, I'll play along; I don't mind being a tool of a corporate PR machine, at least when what they're PR'ing actually seems to be pretty cool.
The blog at FindSubjectZero.com purports to describe a mysterious viral outbreak spreading across the country, closely followed by reports of literally monstrous attacks on survivors. Evidence pours in in the form of comments on the blog, emails, videos and even newspaper clippings outlining the spreading contagion.
What's the point? It's a viral site set up to promote an upcoming novel called The Passage by Justin Cronin. Early reviews are skewing toward "awesome" with the most common comparison being to The Stand.
You might have heard me mention that The Stand is my favorite book of all time, so I'm going to be all over The Passage when it comes out on June 8th.
Here's one of the items of "evidence" sent in to the site.
The blog at FindSubjectZero.com purports to describe a mysterious viral outbreak spreading across the country, closely followed by reports of literally monstrous attacks on survivors. Evidence pours in in the form of comments on the blog, emails, videos and even newspaper clippings outlining the spreading contagion.
What's the point? It's a viral site set up to promote an upcoming novel called The Passage by Justin Cronin. Early reviews are skewing toward "awesome" with the most common comparison being to The Stand.
You might have heard me mention that The Stand is my favorite book of all time, so I'm going to be all over The Passage when it comes out on June 8th.
Here's one of the items of "evidence" sent in to the site.
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I'm so in
Oh god not another blood sucker epic, anybody ever heard of The Strain? This sounds like the world after The Strain. Is originally dead? I am so tired of vampires misunderstood or not and Zombies I could puke. Some of this stuff especially movie wise is really bad!!!! I guess I wouldn’t be so annoyed if anybody did something really original and not a rebuilding of something somebody else has done, come at it from a whole different direction. What’s the name of the vampire wipes out the world book they did in the 1950’s a couple of movies and Will Smith did a movie on something similar. Anyway WTF?
Oh god not another blood sucker epic, anybody ever heard of The Strain? This sounds like the world after The Strain. Is originally dead? I am so tired of vampires misunderstood or not and Zombies I could puke. Some of this stuff especially movie wise is really bad!!!! I guess I wouldn’t be so annoyed if anybody did something really original and not a rebuilding of something somebody else has done, come at it from a whole different direction. What’s the name of the vampire wipes out the world book they did in the 1950’s a couple of movies and Will Smith did a movie on something similar. Anyway WTF?