The Terror: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (529 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1478917717 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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"though not so bad as to undercut the rest of the story" according to Yosef Negasi. Finished the book just the other day.First and foremost, kudos to Simmons for the amount of research and homework he had to perform in order to make this novel possible. The detail and historic underpinnings of this story are top-notch. Obviously the book is based on a true event, yet having had known that I wasn't prepared for its potent authenticity.The characters were all enjoyable in their own way with enough detail and depth to distinguish each from the other and all representing a single spectrum in the gamu. Amazon Customer said Nasty, Brutish, and Short. Look, I generally try to avoid hyperbole while writing a review, but I might as well just say it: as historical drama, as horror, as psychological thriller, as character study (of Captain Crozier), this book is the best experience I've had in a long, long time. I'd never read any of Simmons other work; having heard only that he has a tendency to master whatever genre he tries. I can't speak to the others, but immediately on the other side of "The Terror," I can state unequivocally he has mastered the genre of well. "I hated to have it end" according to nancy harges. Once I got into it, I couldn't put it down. It was well written and interesting. I hated to have it end. It's a big novel but It was worth every page. No one will ever really know what happened to Franklin and his ships but Simmons wrote an interesting tale of the crews of theTerror And Erebus.
When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. A haunting, gripping story based on actual historical events, The Terror is a novel that will chill you to your core.. Read by Tom SellwoodFrom bestselling author Dan Simmons comes a harrowing story of the men aboard the HMS Terror and their struggle to survive their expedition.The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. But as another winter approaches,
. Simmons's novel mingles genres, alternating between horror and maritime action, and Vance uses tone and pitch to indicate the story's joints and digressions. From Publishers Weekly Simmons's lumbering seafaring adventure-cum-ghost story is solidly manned by Vance, who invests his reading with a vinegary tang perfectly suitable for the nautical setting. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Vance enjoys declaiming Simmons's characters' speeches in booming voices, as would be appropriate for the book's setting, but those listeners residing in apartments, or with babies, would be advised to keep the sound turned firmly down to avoid any poten