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    <body><![CDATA['The Terror' is the name of a ship. We join the ship in 1847 as it plows through chilly waters looking to chart new territory in the extreme North. It is rare that I go in for period pieces and I really can't abide the whole Master &amp; Commander/we're-at-sea-in-days-gone-by literary movement that seem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6948528">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very haunting and well written book. I finished this book in just a few days. Dan Simmons digs into the unanswered questions and writes what he thinks might have happened and does it brilliantly. <br/><br/>Don’t let the length of this book (almost 800 pages) intimidate you, otherwise y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23631026">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel takes a historical event I am already very interested in—the doomed Franklin Expedition to find the Northwest Passage—and turns it into a horror story. A lot of what Simmons does is interesting: the character arcs of two of the main players, Captain Francis Crozier and Dr. Goodsir, ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1639859">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Three weeks in to this 700+ page book and I'm only at page 336.  Much like the icebound ships and crew, I am far from comfort and stuck for the duration.  Dan Simmons is a genius and has written many wonderful books.  But Dan Simmons writes what Dan Simmons wants to write and all else be damned!  Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3497249">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Dan Simmons writes with the salty grace and precision of Patrick O'Brian. But in piling supernatural nightmare upon historical nightmare, layering mystery upon mystery, he has produced a turbocharged vision of popular doom.&quot; -Men's JournalGreeted with excited critical praise, this extraordinary novel-inspired by the true story of two ice ships that disappeared in the Arctic Circle during an 1845 expedition-swells with the heart-stopping suspense and heroic adventure that have won Dan Simmons praise as &quot;a writer who not only makes big promises but keeps them&quot; (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). THE TERROR chills readers to the core.&quot;Brutal, relentless, yet oddly uplifting, THE TERROR is a masterfully chilling work.&quot; -Entertainment Weekly&quot;In the hands of a lesser writer than Dan Simmons, THE TERROR might well have dissolved into a series of frigid days and three-dog nights. But Simmons is too good a writer to ignore the real gold in his story-its beleaguered cast.&quot; -Bookpage&quot;Guaranteed to have readers pulling their covers up to their noses, THE TERROR will make for a blood-freezing, bedtime read this winter-and any season thereafter.&quot; -Pages]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Terror&quot; really came close to that 5-star rating.  However the last 75 pages or so were so out of character with the rest of the book, they really seemed like they didn't belong.  &quot;The Terror&quot; is 90% historical fiction and 10% horror.  The historical part is much more terrify...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37818279">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I could <em>not</em> put the book down.  It's about Sir John Franklin's lost expedition to find the Northwest passage in 1855.  <em>The Erebus</em> and <em>The Terror</em> were the two ships sent.  They got trapped in the ice in the winter of 1856-1857, and apparently never got out again.  A cold summer prevented the thaw tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7044273">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a big Dan Simmons fan, but at several points during this book, I found myself thinking, &quot;will someone get this man an editor?&quot; <br/><br/>There's a great horror tale in here. Unfortunately it's buried under layers of fat. Ironic, since lengthy descriptions of starvation and scurvy tak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20663085">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Dan Simmons writes with the salty grace and precision of Patrick O'Brian. But in piling supernatural nightmare upon historical nightmare, layering mystery upon mystery, he has produced a turbocharged vision of popular doom.&quot; -Men's JournalGreeted with excited critical praise, this extraordinary novel-inspired by the true story of two ice ships that disappeared in the Arctic Circle during an 1845 expedition-swells with the heart-stopping suspense and heroic adventure that have won Dan Simmons praise as &quot;a writer who not only makes big promises but keeps them&quot; (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). THE TERROR chills readers to the core.&quot;Brutal, relentless, yet oddly uplifting, THE TERROR is a masterfully chilling work.&quot; -Entertainment Weekly&quot;In the hands of a lesser writer than Dan Simmons, THE TERROR might well have dissolved into a series of frigid days and three-dog nights. But Simmons is too good a writer to ignore the real gold in his story-its beleaguered cast.&quot; -Bookpage&quot;Guaranteed to have readers pulling their covers up to their noses, THE TERROR will make for a blood-freezing, bedtime read this winter-and any season thereafter.&quot; -Pages]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know anything about sailing, the Arctic, 19th century England or Dan Simmons, but I liked this book anyway.  Well, 'liked' may be too strong a word.  This book got inside my head and I'm fairly sure it has given me nightmares for the past week.  Simmons did an excellent job with his descript...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30615701">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Bleak is how I'd best describe this fictional account of what happened to the crew of the USS Terror...a ship which attempted to discover the Northwest Passage in real life, and went missing. (there are many non-fiction books out there on the same subject)<p><br/>Don't interpret &quot;bleak&quot; as n...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3589559">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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