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The Terror
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bookshelves: horror-gothic-etc, own, unhauled
Jul 02, 2016
bookshelves: horror-gothic-etc, own, unhauled
UPDATE: $2.99 on kindle US 7-27-17
People, just turn around and go home!
I probably shouldn't have went and read some facts about the history of this book because I might mess this review up. It's just so freaking interesting and I want to read about it. The author left a lot of resources for books at the end and there is one I'm going to try to get for sure.
The fact that Dan Simmons added an horror element to a historic novel is pretty awesome. And there are so many characters that I liked in the book and well. . . you know what happens if you read anything about the real story.
Some parts of the book had me confused because it would go back and forth at different times but I pretty much know what's going on. Captain Sir John Franklin and Captain Crozier take the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus out to try to go through the Northwest Passage, which was called the 1845 Franklin Expedition. And it's doomed!!!! Not only do they get stuck out there for a couple of years, they have some monster thing <---(I know what the monster thing is) killing them, along with scurvy, starvation, random stuff, etc.
I LOVE the cold weather and WINTER is my favorite, but not this kind of stuff. Not being stuck in the ice in the middle of no where land with minus a million degrees with food running out, disease running all around, oh and lets not forget the monster!
I liked Dr. Harry D. S. Goodsir, he is one of the surgeons on the ships and after awhile he has an epiphany:
•One reason that Dr. Harry D. S. Goodsir had insisted on coming along on this exploration party was to prove that he was as strong and able a man as most of his crewmates. He soon realized that he wasn't.•
He's a very good man and does all he can for the crew members. He also keeps a diary which I enjoyed reading because it gave his point of view on things.
There is an Esquimaux lady that is on the Terror. They call her Silence because something chewed off her tongue. Yeah! She was brought there with her father or husband, they are not sure and I will let you read about that little mystery. I was freaked out by Silence the whole book. But there was a lot more going on there than meets the eye.
One of my favorite crew members was Irving, he was such a nice guy and he was told by Captain Crozier to watch over Silence because he didn't trust her. Boy did he see some crazy stuff going on with her.
I also liked Captain Crozier, Fitzjams who took over for Sir John, Mr. Diggle and Blanky. I loathed a man named Hickey. He was more evil than the monster I do believe and I wish he would have had some great torture befall him! Trust me, you won't like him either!
The story isn't just about the monster, this is a big tome of a book at almost 1000 pages but the monster isn't in it a whole lot. The story is about other horrible things that happen. The worries of what the crew is going to do when they are running out of food and find out that food is tainted (true story about the tainted food), running low on coal, people catching scurvy and dying a slow horrendous death, the cold, don't forget the cold. Some really nasty stuff happens that had to do with the cold.
But that monster does some crazy stuff. It's almost like he has a sick sense of humor!
•"It?" snaps Crozier. "One body? Back on the ship?" This makes no sense at all to the Terror's captain. "I thought you said both Strong and Evans were back."
Third Lieutenant Irving's entire face is frostbite white now. "They are, Captain. Or at least half of them. When we went to look at the body propped up there at the stern, it fell over and . . . well . . . came apart. As best we can tell, it's Billy Strong from the waist up. Tommy Evans from the waist down."
Crozier and Fitzjames can only look at each other.•
You never know what you will find in the never ending night!
•On a Tuesday dogwatch in the third week of November, the thing from the ice came aboard the Erebus and took the well-liked bosun, Mr. Thomas Terry, snatching him from his post near the stern, leaving only the man's head on the railing.•
I thought this was a really good book. I did think it was a bit long as a few parts dragged for me. And that's not because it's a tome, I have a few favorite tomes that are bigger than this one. Either way, I still very much enjoyed it and the ending and finding things out was so cool. Of course at one part you start to get an idea of what it's going to be about. And it took a turn I didn't see coming!
I will leave you with a picture of the Erebus they found in 2014/2015, I forget what the article said now but you can google it. They still haven't found Terror. They also found mummified corpses and stuff so be prepared when you google!
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People, just turn around and go home!
I probably shouldn't have went and read some facts about the history of this book because I might mess this review up. It's just so freaking interesting and I want to read about it. The author left a lot of resources for books at the end and there is one I'm going to try to get for sure.
The fact that Dan Simmons added an horror element to a historic novel is pretty awesome. And there are so many characters that I liked in the book and well. . . you know what happens if you read anything about the real story.
Some parts of the book had me confused because it would go back and forth at different times but I pretty much know what's going on. Captain Sir John Franklin and Captain Crozier take the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus out to try to go through the Northwest Passage, which was called the 1845 Franklin Expedition. And it's doomed!!!! Not only do they get stuck out there for a couple of years, they have some monster thing <---(I know what the monster thing is) killing them, along with scurvy, starvation, random stuff, etc.
I LOVE the cold weather and WINTER is my favorite, but not this kind of stuff. Not being stuck in the ice in the middle of no where land with minus a million degrees with food running out, disease running all around, oh and lets not forget the monster!
I liked Dr. Harry D. S. Goodsir, he is one of the surgeons on the ships and after awhile he has an epiphany:
•One reason that Dr. Harry D. S. Goodsir had insisted on coming along on this exploration party was to prove that he was as strong and able a man as most of his crewmates. He soon realized that he wasn't.•
He's a very good man and does all he can for the crew members. He also keeps a diary which I enjoyed reading because it gave his point of view on things.
There is an Esquimaux lady that is on the Terror. They call her Silence because something chewed off her tongue. Yeah! She was brought there with her father or husband, they are not sure and I will let you read about that little mystery. I was freaked out by Silence the whole book. But there was a lot more going on there than meets the eye.
One of my favorite crew members was Irving, he was such a nice guy and he was told by Captain Crozier to watch over Silence because he didn't trust her. Boy did he see some crazy stuff going on with her.
I also liked Captain Crozier, Fitzjams who took over for Sir John, Mr. Diggle and Blanky. I loathed a man named Hickey. He was more evil than the monster I do believe and I wish he would have had some great torture befall him! Trust me, you won't like him either!
The story isn't just about the monster, this is a big tome of a book at almost 1000 pages but the monster isn't in it a whole lot. The story is about other horrible things that happen. The worries of what the crew is going to do when they are running out of food and find out that food is tainted (true story about the tainted food), running low on coal, people catching scurvy and dying a slow horrendous death, the cold, don't forget the cold. Some really nasty stuff happens that had to do with the cold.
But that monster does some crazy stuff. It's almost like he has a sick sense of humor!
•"It?" snaps Crozier. "One body? Back on the ship?" This makes no sense at all to the Terror's captain. "I thought you said both Strong and Evans were back."
Third Lieutenant Irving's entire face is frostbite white now. "They are, Captain. Or at least half of them. When we went to look at the body propped up there at the stern, it fell over and . . . well . . . came apart. As best we can tell, it's Billy Strong from the waist up. Tommy Evans from the waist down."
Crozier and Fitzjames can only look at each other.•
You never know what you will find in the never ending night!
•On a Tuesday dogwatch in the third week of November, the thing from the ice came aboard the Erebus and took the well-liked bosun, Mr. Thomas Terry, snatching him from his post near the stern, leaving only the man's head on the railing.•
I thought this was a really good book. I did think it was a bit long as a few parts dragged for me. And that's not because it's a tome, I have a few favorite tomes that are bigger than this one. Either way, I still very much enjoyed it and the ending and finding things out was so cool. Of course at one part you start to get an idea of what it's going to be about. And it took a turn I didn't see coming!
I will leave you with a picture of the Erebus they found in 2014/2015, I forget what the article said now but you can google it. They still haven't found Terror. They also found mummified corpses and stuff so be prepared when you google!
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Jul 17, 2016 04:32PM
I understand what you are saying. That's why I took some other reviewers advise to read to abridged version. You are a trouper. Great review
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Yeah, I always have to do the whole thing. I mean I never know when I'm going to love it. I have three big tomes I love and so far The Count of Monte Cristo is going to be the 4th :-D
Ace review, i want to get it read before the tv adaptation is shown. Had it on my bookshelf for a while now
I had this book for the longest time (bought it years ago because the cover of the German version was intriguing) but never got to read it. However, I plan on changing that this winter (November, December or January). Glad you liked it so much!
Great review by the way. :)
Great review by the way. :)
We'll have to wait until the weather gets better (colder) for me to find out. I just can't bring myself to read something like this while I'm dying from this blasted heat. ;)
Don't mention this damn heat! I hate it with a passion :-( oh the agony. I have a blasted headache. I keep them in the summer between my sinus and arthritis in my neck *insert mad face emoji*
Oh boy. Even worse than for me then and my problems are already bad enough (if you ask me). I was so happy about out "English summer" so far but today we have over 30°C (more than 10°C difference to Friday and Satuday) and by the middle of this week we are supposed to get 37°C (felt as if it was 39 due to the humidity).
I'm guessing that is hot since I don't know it in that degree. Lol. It's hot as hell here and humid with random storms. I hate it. Of course I don't go outside and have the air blasting :-)
*lol* Right, American you are. Wait ... 30°C = 86°F, 37°C = 98,6°F, 39°C = 102,2°F ... according to google.
Of course, that's nothing compared to last year where we had 109°F for weeks on end with nighttime temperatures so high I kept the AC on almost 24/7 (highly unusual here).
Of course, that's nothing compared to last year where we had 109°F for weeks on end with nighttime temperatures so high I kept the AC on almost 24/7 (highly unusual here).
Yes! We have been in the 90's. I'm not sure if we got to 100 yet, I try not to pay attention to out there. I know when I let my dog out to pee and poop, it's like a sauna when you open the door. And we didn't get much Winter here last year. We had the air conditioning on in January!! Then it finally got kinda cold. I got to go outside comfortably twice!! I just wish we had really cold weather a lot longer than warm. Minus the cold wind :-)
Trish wrote: "Awful! Just awful! I hope this year's winter will be better again."
Me too! We can always hope :-/
Me too! We can always hope :-/
John wrote: "Trish wrote: "Awful! Just awful! I hope this year's winter will be better again."
I take it that you and Melissa don't regularly get snow in excess of 12 inches (30cm) and have 140 ft (43m) drivewa..."
We used to, but not for the past 3 years and I miss it so much!
I take it that you and Melissa don't regularly get snow in excess of 12 inches (30cm) and have 140 ft (43m) drivewa..."
We used to, but not for the past 3 years and I miss it so much!
*lol* It's nice to talk to someone who isn't outraged when I say that I can't deal with too much heat. ;)
I prefer 30 but I'm okay with 40. No wind and sunny, those are good days to be outside. And of course I panic less in that cold. :-)
Great review - I loved this book too, but also thought it could do with a bit of editing. They're making it into a TV series now, I can't wait to see it!
Steve wrote: "Great review - I loved this book too, but also thought it could do with a bit of editing. They're making it into a TV series now, I can't wait to see it!"
I didn't know that! I will have to watch out for it 😊
I didn't know that! I will have to watch out for it 😊
G.J. wrote: "did you say 1000 pages !!! ???? gosh, too much for me I fear !"
Lol, yep, it's a door stopper 😊
Lol, yep, it's a door stopper 😊
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