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The Abominable

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On a lonely desert road, a woman hears the voice of her dead child calling out to her, but no one is near. The Deacon-Clairoux-Perry expedition is one funded by Lord Percival’s mother, Lady Elizabeth Marion Bromley, and not sanctioned by any Mountaineering Society, which is why details of it (according to Simmons) to this day remain less known, if known at all. The rest of the book is then spent attempting to climb Everest, with consequences for all involved.

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Words with Wine is a perfect box for you if you are a wine drinker and like enjoying a good book. Every month you will receive a book, a full-size bottle of wine as well as information about the book, author and tasting notes for your wine. You can also become a part of an online book club where you can enjoy your wine along with the book of the month and share pictures with the online community. Dan Simmons has done a lot of research for this book and he wants to make sure that you know it. And believe me you, you will. Still nothing has happened, though our heroes have at least made it as far as India. I don't know whether it was Mr Simmons' intention to fully simulate the tedium of long-distance travel in the early part of the 20th century, but he has certainly succeeded. If you want to know why, you can unhide the spoilers. Choose wisely. The spoilers below include major plot points that will either ruin the novel, or save you a deal of time and money, depending on your point of view (and on how fast you read, or whether you got this book from the library). Much time is devoted to descriptive narrative on climbing techniques, a very slow trek into the alpine world of 1925. Simmons shows he's researched the topic extensively.

And this is the first time you are introduced to Mt. Everest and other major characters (including the two who-shall-not-be-named) - North Col, First Step, Second Step, interchangeable Sherpas, etc. etc. Simmons never once blinks in the face of the improbable, and he serves up a lively, eminently entertaining adventure that would do Edgar Allan Poe—and even Rudyard Kipling—proud.

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With Deacon’s experience and several new climbing innovations, the three men hope to become the first to climb Everest, but the addition of a new member to their party is just one of many surprises they’ll get as they try overcome all the obstacles that come with a high altitude climb. Thus it was not so surprising that most of this book read like a memoir. What did surprise me, however, was how little action there was in a book supposedly touted as a "thrilling tale of supernatural adventure". A good chunk of it felt more like a guide to mountain climbing, complete with descriptions of climbing techniques and equipment which Simmons goes into with exhaustive detail. urn:lcp:isbn_9780316198837:epub:fc1de400-f780-4cd2-ad3e-5722040b9bdb Foldoutcount 0 Identifier isbn_9780316198837 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t16m7947p Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780316198837 Concurrently, a British poet, aristocrat and WWI veteran Lord Percival Brombley has also disappeared on Everest's treacherous slopes. And Fourth: On the other hand, what stops Hitler from saying, “It’s not me in the photographs. It’s my double.”?The Abominable is rather like the mountainous landscapes it portrays, a novel that is in turns, brilliant, all-enveloping, treacherous and chilling. I appreciate the effort and research which must have gone into this book, but the exorbitant amount of detail simply washed the plot away like an avalanche of unimportant facts (Yep. I did it again) The descriptions of Everest were awe inspiring. And chilling - literally. I had to put a sweater on to read most of the book. Thirty-seven years in the force, and if I was allowed to choose just one thing to erase from my mind, what’s inside that room would be it.’

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Being a fan of supernatural fiction, my only tiny peeve was the misleading advertising of this tale as supernatural. I haven't read any Simmons' novels before but I understand he has the imagination and the creativity to successfully explore a mythical theme; he instead chose to use the abominable metaphor for a different kind of monster- that to me was a little patronizing. If you manage to look past this sometimes silly feeling 'twist' though, the rest is pretty great. Good characters (even if the narrator is perhaps my least favorite): "The Deacon" - incredibly strong, interesting, often unreadable. "J C" - so French that not even a Frenchman can complain of him being a stereotype and Lady Katherine Christina Regina Bromley-Montfort "Reggie", well, who's not a bit smitten by Reggie? Are you obsessed with pretty books and fantasy? Fairy Loot might be the subscription for you. Fairy Loot is a monthly subscription service for book lovers who love young adult fantasy and science fiction. I wouldn’t recommend this book because it was a bit slow and boring but if people like that kind of stuff then yes I think they would like it.This book is about a team of climbers who are hired to go to Everest to find someone who was thought to have been lost on an expedition. On paper, I should have really liked this book, but it had quite a few shortcomings I could not overlook. The Everest story is 89 year old Jacob's account of events of that fateful expedition, memories written in journals left boxed up since his death in 1991; journals which twenty years later came in the possession of Dan Simmons, who would eventually write the foreword to Jacob's manuscript, creating the illusion of a chilling non-fictional adventure. It turns out that the secret that Bromley died for, the one that the Nazis wish to recover, is a trove of sexually explicit photographs featuring the pedophiliac behavior of a certain well-known Nazi leader. This book is fiction. It is about some yetis, a funny yak called Hubert, some kind children who help them and some bad hunters who want to kill them. My favourite yeti was Ambrose the Abominable. I would recommend this book.. It made me laugh sometimes and cry sometimes. So kids, that’s how Operation Sea Lion (invasion of England by Germany in World War-II) is cancelled.

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