false 3974 19 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. <P>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. <P> 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. 3025639 book 8 1 2007 The Terror total:1975|5:614|4:810|3:389|2:119|1:43| 1975 7758 3316 591 4 13 false false Thu Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 07 13:34:29 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 26 23:07:02 -0700 2008 The Terror may be one of the few novels I've read that makes me grateful to live in Texas. This imaginative re-telling of the doomed Franklin expedition of 1845 to find the Northwest Passage is overwhelming in its details of life and death in the Arctic north. The cold is constant, the ...more...]]> 5 6 false true Sat Jul 26 17:16:26 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 17:25:44 -0700 2008
A few friends of mine and I read this last month. I've not had the time to back through all the traffic this has generated but there seem to be questions, particularly about the end of the novel...more...]]> 1 10 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 28 10:12:29 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 28 10:12:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 5 false false Tue Jun 03 15:29:16 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 15:29:25 -0700 2008
Don’t let the length of this book (almost 800 pages) intimidate you, otherwise y...more...]]> 0 4 false false Fri Aug 24 15:09:44 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 06:38:18 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 06:22:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 3 false false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 15 15:05:16 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 23 22:10:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 16 18:41:11 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 06 08:27:08 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 5 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 13:56:45 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 14:16:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 18:43:27 -0800 2008 Tue Jun 03 01:16:00 -0700 2008 Simmons take on this historic mystery is slow in parts and sometimes the nautical details and ice jargon were tedious. But I think the lengt...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 30 14:44:19 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 05:17:05 -0700 2007 not put the book down. It's about Sir John Franklin's lost expedition to find the Northwest passage in 1855. The Erebus and The Terror 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...more...]]> 2 5 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 21:27:21 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 21:29:37 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 5 false false Mon Apr 21 13:29:09 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 16:23:07 -0700 2008
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...more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Aug 19 20:52:03 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 27 23:03:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sat Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 19:16:14 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 19:28:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Mar 11 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 19 16:32:06 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 16:45:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Sep 11 11:48:46 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 11:50:58 -0700 2007 realistic detail spiced up with a soupchon of "What
the hell?", take a look at Dan Simmons' newest, The
Terror.

It is the age of sail and two ships set out on
an expedtion to find the Northwest Passage through the
...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 04 18:42:27 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 23:05:55 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 5 1 true false Thu Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 14:23:41 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 00:23:36 -0700 2009 1 The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle years and years ago. I just find ship life very interesting. And I had encountered this particular book many tim...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 27 00:46:58 -0800 2008 Tue Sep 08 22:33:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jan 03 11:44:13 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 07:06:27 -0800 2008 The Terror details a failed 19th century English expidition to find the Northwest Passage in as amazingly detailed a portrait as I could ever imagine. I defy you to not shiver every time you finish a chapter in this book.

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