The Terror: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (636 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1600240763 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 102 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-11 |
| 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. 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 trie. I hated to have it end 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.
But thereal threat to their survival isn't the ever-shifting landscape of white,the provisions that have turned to poison before they open them, or theship slowly buckling in the grip of the frozen ocean. The bestselling author of Ilium and Olympos transforms thetrue story of a legendary Arctic expedition into a thriller worthy ofStephen King or Patrick O'Brian. Drawing equally on his own strengths asa seaman and the mystical beliefs of the Eskimo woman he's rescued, Croziersets a course on foot out of the Arctic and away from the insatiable beast.But every day the dwindling crew becomes more deranged and mutinous, untilCrozier begins to fear there is no escape from an ever-more-inconceivablenightmare.. Captain Crozier takes over the expedition after the creature kills itsoriginal leader, Sir John Franklin. The real threat iswhatever is out in the frigid darkness, stalking their ship, snatching oneseaman at a time or whole crews, leaving bodies mangled horribly or missingforever. Their captain's insane vision of a Northwest Passage has kept the crewmenof The Terror trapped in Arctic ice for two years without a thaw
Vance derives special pleasure from the opportunity to dive into the book's mixture of King's English, Cockney, Scottish and Irish accents, delivering each with brio and panache. 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. Working with characters who express themselves lustily, Vance avails himself of the opportunity to chew the scenery and makes the most of it. 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