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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780316008075
ISBN: 0316008079
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 992
Publication Date: January 01, 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Release Date: January 05, 2009
Sales Rank: 15103
Studio: Little, Brown and Company
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The bestselling author of Ilium and Olympos transforms the true story of a legendary Arctic expedition into a thriller worthy of Stephen King or Patrick O'Brian.
Their captain's insane vision of a Northwest Passage has kept the crewmen of The Terror trapped in Arctic ice for two years without a thaw. But the real threat to their survival isn't the ever-shifting landscape of white, the provisions that have turned to poison before they open them, or the ship slowly buckling in the grip of the frozen ocean. The real threat is whatever is out in the frigid darkness, stalking their ship, snatching one seaman at a time or whole crews, leaving bodies mangled horribly or missing forever.
Captain Crozier takes over the expedition after the creature kills its original leader, Sir John Franklin. Drawing equally on his own strengths as a seaman and the mystical beliefs of the Eskimo woman he's rescued, Crozier sets a course on foot out of the Arctic and away from the insatiable beast. But every day the dwindling crew becomes more deranged and mutinous, until Crozier begins to fear there is no escape from an ever-more-inconceivable nightmare.
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- Can't Get It Out Of My HeadNo long, rambling review here. All I have to say is that it's been over two years since I read this one, and nothing quite compares. It stands alone as one of the most uniquely haunting and amazingly written stories I've ever read. By all means, read it.
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- Like riding a roller coaster in the darkThe Terror is one of the best books I've read in a long, long time. I picked it up on a whim and, once I'd begun it, read nothing else until I had finished. Dan Simmons has crafted not only a thrilling, terrifying, suspenseful novel, he's written one of the best historical novels I've ever read.
The Terror is the story of the men of HMSs Terror and Erebus, two ships under Sir John Franklin, an ageing explorer looking for the fabled Northwest Passage. During their second winter above ... Read More
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- A captivating, awe-inspiring epic.Every now and then, a new book will come out that redefines the boundaries of its respective genre. Dan Simmons's THE TERROR is one such novel--with its clever blending of historic fact, scientific research, mythological surrealism, and adventurous bravado, THE TERROR has turned the horror genre on its head.
The whole novel revolves around a rather intriguing concept: What really happened to Sir John Franklin's 1845 voyage to the Northwest Passage? All we really know is that the two ... Read More
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- LizzieUtter waste of time. Billed as based on true history, but nothing of the kind, this book starts well and proceeds gripplingly. After reading hundreds of pages, I threw the book out in utter disgust at the shabby writing and ridiculous premise, as it turned out. Unfortunately, once it has pulled you well and truly in, it dissolves into a fantasy land of imaginary Eskimo lore and thousand year past false imagery, as well as truly gross and bizarre universal love triangulation.
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- Great Premise with Flawed ExecutionI picked up "The Terror" because I saw it on a couple of Top Ten lists for 2007 and the plot was intriguing. The author, Dan Simmons, took the true story of the 1845 Franklin expedition to the Arctic (which was never heard from again) and imagined a fate for the crew. In his fictional version, the two ships are trapped in the ice and the sailors are gradually killed off by a mysterious and terrifying creature.
I have mixed feelings about this novel. I really liked the premise, and the ... Read More
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