I’m not surprised at all that you enjoyed this one. I would be shocked if you didn’t. Right up your alley. Mine too. One of absolute favorites! You should give Carrion Comfort a go.
@@ShawnDStandfast With Carrion Comfort, except a hearty dose of cheese. The good kind. It’s one of the most blatantly 80’s books I’ve ever read but damn is it awesome. I’ll never look at a chess board the same way again.
I have only read Hyperion by Dan Simmons so far but you sold me on The Terror! My free library audio app has it. After I listen I will come back and let you know my thoughts.
I just finished it last week and it was tremendous. I have always been fascinated by the Franklin Expedition so that added an extra dimension to the book for me. And can we say with 100% certainty it didn't happen that way?😉 If Dan Simmons shows similar writing skill in his other novels, I want to read them!
Three of the sailors were buried on Beechy Island, and they have been exhumed and autopsied. All others in the Franklin Expedition are buried in the sands of history.
They have surveyed and found bones and fragments of bones most likely belonging to the expedition. There were also a number of skeletons found during the rescue attempts.
@shawndstandfast, there is also an Inuit tale that sounds like Franklin himself being entombed in concrete somewhere on King William Island. The alleged tomb never being found. My favorite books on the Franklin Expedition are Ice Blink, Island of the Lost by Paul Fenimore Cooper and Pierre Berton's history of Arctic exploration, which is substantially the history of the Franklin Rescue.
Such an amazing book. It is one of my favorites. You did a wonderful job expressing all the reasons it is great.
It is amazing. I will be re-reading it. Thanks Mindy.
I’m not surprised at all that you enjoyed this one. I would be shocked if you didn’t. Right up your alley. Mine too. One of absolute favorites! You should give Carrion Comfort a go.
I do want to read everything Simmons has done. Carrion Comfort is near the top along with Drood, Illum & Olympus.
@@ShawnDStandfast With Carrion Comfort, except a hearty dose of cheese. The good kind. It’s one of the most blatantly 80’s books I’ve ever read but damn is it awesome. I’ll never look at a chess board the same way again.
I have only read Hyperion by Dan Simmons so far but you sold me on The Terror! My free library audio app has it. After I listen I will come back and let you know my thoughts.
Cool. I think you will be pleased. It took me almost 35 years to read something else other than the Hyperion Cantos and he has delivered fully.
I just finished it last week and it was tremendous. I have always been fascinated by the Franklin Expedition so that added an extra dimension to the book for me. And can we say with 100% certainty it didn't happen that way?😉 If Dan Simmons shows similar writing skill in his other novels, I want to read them!
I have only read the Hyperion Cantos and I can say he does. Even more in the Cantos as it's like an onion with many layers.
Terror was fittingly enough found sunk in Terror Bay on King William Island.
It was. Still being slowly excavated, mapped and studied
Three of the sailors were buried on Beechy Island, and they have been exhumed and autopsied. All others in the Franklin Expedition are buried in the sands of history.
They have surveyed and found bones and fragments of bones most likely belonging to the expedition. There were also a number of skeletons found during the rescue attempts.
@shawndstandfast, there is also an Inuit tale that sounds like Franklin himself being entombed in concrete somewhere on King William Island. The alleged tomb never being found. My favorite books on the Franklin Expedition are Ice Blink, Island of the Lost by Paul Fenimore Cooper and Pierre Berton's history of Arctic exploration, which is substantially the history of the Franklin Rescue.
@@vilstef6988 I've not read Ice Brink but I have read Artic Grail and it's fabulous. Also is Frozen in Time.
@shawndstandfast, Ice Blink is by an author named Scott Cookman and frozen in time is by or co-written by John Geiger.
@@vilstef6988 I will keep a note of Ice Blink. Yes Frozen is by Owen Beattie and Geiger