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This book was complicated. Will have to think about a review.
4 of 5 stars Read in Feb/Mar 2012 I read The Terror as part of a group read at the Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club at GoodReads during the month of February. I participated in the discussion, as did many others. To review those threads, please follow this link. I started reading this the e...
Dan Simmons again shows he's one of the best with this book. Science fiction, crime or mainstream I have yet to read a novel by him that wasn't a real page turner. This was extremely good
I picked this book up for the cover and fell in love with it. This is classic man v. nature, man v. God, man v. himself.
Mostly -- I loved the first 500 pages or so, but then Simmons started getting freaky with the supernatural and it fell apart for me. It wasn't the supernatural element that I disliked; it was that the tone of the novel changed and read, to me, like an entirely different book. The ending really drai...