While Simmons's Terror is finely researched and has a brilliant premise, I'm afraid the book fails as a story due to a preoccupation with detail and repetition. In fact, I wouldn't put the blame solely on Simmons himself. I hold the editor responsible for not catching the faults of the story in th...
I have the distinct impression that I may have read Dan Simmons before, years and years and years ago in my high school days when all I read were horror novels. Looking through his novels on the shelf, I came upon a few early pocket paperbacks whose covers seemed to strike faint chords in ye olde me...
The Terror is heavily researched historical fiction, and after reading it, I wanted to know more about Franklin and his quest for the Northwest Passage. The book does move slowly, but this seems to be Simmons trying to conveay to the reader how it must have felt to have been trapped in the ice for ...
This was really good up until the end. I recommend this for anyone interested in Artic Expeditions. As long as you don't mind the cold, this book is for you.
Amazing. No supernatural horror can compare to real 19th century arctic exploration and/or the British Navy. Simmons evokes cold like nobodies business.
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