Reddit reviews Passage: A Novel

Omg Passage. 800 pages of miscommunication and blocked-off passageways. I still have nightmares about that. I'm a slow reader, but I stuck with the whole book -- for a payoff that never happened!

The Sparrow: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Doria-Russell/e/B000APW42W/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1373741779&sr=1-2-ent
Brilliantly written, powerful ending. So powerful I was afraid to read the sequel for years. I'm glad I did, but wow. This book hit me hard.
It has a lot of different themes, music, the place of humanity in the universe, how different intelligent races view the world and how their culture can be very different from ours and not be "wrong" how entire ecologies work and what can happen when humans meddle. Also,
Religion, Jesuits, God, faith.

Passage by Connie Willis
Is there an afterlife? Can we use science to measure it look into it?
Where do "you" go after death, no where? Somewhere? What is a good metaphor for dying?
Willis' Domesday Book aslo is great but Passages have me, the emotionless Vulcan crying. But just reading a book for a good cry isn't what makes it a good book. I really cared about the Characters.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0553580515

You should read Passage by Connie Willis. It's about a psychologist researching near-death experiences. It's not great literature or anything, but it's super super interesting.