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Monsters on the Ice

The Terror by Dan Simmons

January 31, 2020 by Fiat.Luxury Leave a Comment

We chose this for our October 2019 book club.  I just finished it. It is a very long book. Honestly, I would not have read this but for the book club.  Nothing about it seemed all that appealing to me. “I need to read it before watching the miniseries”: nope. Scary ice monsters: nope. 900 pages: nope. A slow, cold descent into terror and death: NOPE. Dan Simmons: Honestly, neither here nor there. Old ships: OK MAYBE. So I’m as surprised as anyone that I […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Horror Tagged With: dan simmons, door-stopper, The Terror

Fiat.Luxury's CBR12 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, History, Horror · Tags: dan simmons, door-stopper, The Terror ·
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The implacable horror of isolation

June 22, 2018 by ingres77 1 Comment

There are books that speak to you. Books that reach down into the core of your inner being to play the delicate chords of your heart strings. Books that stay with you, becoming a passenger for life, indelibly connecting you to a particular place and time, like some kind of existential anchor of permanence in a sea of change. Moby Dick is one such book, for me. That book haunts me. It’s the girl I had a crush on in high school but was too afraid […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Horror Tagged With: dan simmons, Herman Melville, HP Lovecraft, Moby Dick, the Franklin Expedition, The Terror

ingres77's CBR10 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, History, Horror · Tags: dan simmons, Herman Melville, HP Lovecraft, Moby Dick, the Franklin Expedition, The Terror ·
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