3.5. I breathed this book for the month it took to read it and it should have been a perfect 5 star classic. It was brilliant. It was also much too long, meandering and tentatively edited. Very glad I read it, though.
This is entirely subjective, but I just couldn't get into Drood. It wasn't the writing, Simmons is an excellent writer and I've enjoyed some of his earlier works. I think this time it was the story. If I had a greater interest in Dickens, the story might have resonated with me.Simmons' research is i...
I really cannot believe I haven't done a review for this book yet. I love Dan Simmon's "thriller" writing and this book and another one he did called A Winter Haunting is why. He ability to maintain creepiness in this book is unbelievable..the reader has to understand that this book is over 700 page...
I sincerely wanted to like this novel more than I did. The Wife and I were at a bookstore perusing the new releases when I picked up this thick volume with its delightfully evocative cover and read the jacket copy. Get a gander at the kind of teasing this copy gave me:>>>Drood . . ... . . is the nam...
Yes, as is many Simmons novel, Drood tends to be overlong and the author seems to be in love with his ability to research. Yet it is again a fine novel by the always interesting Simmons. The narrator is this book is Wilkie Collins, the 19th century author of The Woman In White and The Moonstone. He ...
mp3 Unabridged and superbly read by John Lee.Dan Simmons is one cheapskate, tacky guy. I am verily outraged (hee, I do so love to be outraged from time to time) that so much time in Drood is given over to the premise of The Terror under the guise of The Frozen Deep. Flying under the literary radar l...
This is an ambitious book, even by Simmons' standard - indeed, probably by anyone's standard. Like most books that try to acheive so much, it is flawed, but by setting the sights to such a long range Simmons fires his book so far ahead of the majority of perfectly realised but narrowly circumscribe...
An amazingly deep and dark book that will drag you in and keep you up at night long after its finished and you've put it away. Dan Simmons has created a haunting, disturbing masterpiece here.
as an author that writes well, i believe simmons fails in this novel because he was too in love with his research and couldn't resist cramming it in at all occasions. the characters are well-drawn but they are based on real-life people, like dickens and wilkie collins but i don't buy the characteriz...
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