by Dan Simmons
** spoiler alert ** Paha Sapa was just a young boy when the battle of the Little Big Horn took place. When he placed his hands on the lifeless body of General Custer, the spirit of the man flowed into the boy. As his life moves on and the times begin to change, he becomes a powderman on the Mount Ru...
If there’s one thing you have to give Simmons credit for, it’s his originality. He has a history of telling interesting, engaging, thoughtful stories under the guise of genre fiction, but he also has a knack of coming up with stories that you’ve never read before, and likely will never read again. Y...
If I was given this book without knowing who wrote it, I would never think it was written by Dan Simmons. Hyperion is fabulous and I would strongly recommend The Terror but this novel pales by comparison. I still would never say one of his books was dull but this one comes perilously close.The t...
Three and a half stars.Black Hills is another intelligent marathon of a book by Dan Simmons. It's actually a bit shorter than his last two, The Terror and Drood, at 500+ pages. It is also not quite as good at his last two novels but still an entertaining and impressive read. In Black Hills, Ten year...
Having demonstrated that he can write successfully in any genre he chooses, Simmons plainly wanted a greater challenge, so he decided to create his own: the historical horror/supernatural genre. The Terror and Drood showed just how ambitious an idea this is and neither is perfect. For this, his thir...
I really enjoyed this one a lot, it was beautifully written and the story compelling. The only things holding me back from granting it 5 stardom, where the overly horny General Custer passages (I'm no prude, but dude, get a room)and the ending was a bit of a let down. Overall though a fantastic hist...
A wonderful book. It suffers from only one shortcoming -- occasionally it reads not like a novel, but like non-fiction. From time to time you get the feeling that Simmons inserted certain paragraphs only to display some curious fact he had unearthed during his research, to show you that he had done ...
Grumble, grumble. :( :( :( I gave this one an honest try because there *are* a very few authors who are actually talented enough to write well in the present tense---Richard Russo, Suzanne Collins, and Wally Stegner, for example. Unfortunately, Simmons is NOT one of them. Grumble grumble...
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