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The Abominable (2013)

by Dan Simmons(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0316198838 (ISBN13: 9780316198837)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Little, Brown and Company

review 1: Similar in theme to "The Terror", his recent foray into pseudo-historical fiction, "Abominable" is the tale of a forgotten conquest of Mt. Everest in the 1920's. The monster of the story may be more man than beast, and the dangers of the mountain loom just as large as those of the enemy, but the title becomes very fitting as you go along. Like "The Terror", Simmons manages to bring the reader into the dark and incredibly harsh world of a place colder than cold. I've never felt closer to the pains and freezing temperatures that the protagonists suffer than I have with these books. The ice just seeps into you as you read. Simmons continues to be one of my favorite authors, and though he's stumbled a little with his last two novels, this one puts him back on my hit ... morelist.
review 2: A good and satisfying read, as with every Dan Simmons book. However, probably not his best one, since it is in some ways lacking the originality of his masterpiece The Terror, and his astounding SF novels about Hyperion. The plotline is in many ways predictable, and the descriptions of 1920s politics too shallow. Nevertheless, filled with lots of memorable scenes about mountaineering and the madness of trying to compete with nature at 8000 m altitude. less

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