When it got to the point where I was laughing out loud at every ridiculous breast fest, I felt that it was time to quit.

The book leaves you feeling impressed that any woman, anywhere in the world in the 1840s, managed to keep her kit on for more than 30 seconds at a time in the presence of a man. I wondered if the author got a bonus for every time he used the word 'breasts'. A woman in New Zealand removes all of her clothing and we are told about her breasts. A woman in the polar region goes to bed naked and we are told about her breasts. A woman in India removes all of her clothing and we are told about her breasts. Not once anywhere in the novel were we told what a woman was thinking - well I got more than half way through and there was no description of what a woman thought at any point, though there were many descriptions of what men were thinking. This was combined with what felt like endless dull descriptions of women's secondary sexual characteristics and a total absence of any description of the interior life for any of the women involved. There was a bit of both, but really, what I noticed was the author repeatedly and predictably arranging situations where women were naked while for the most part, the men around them were not. I downloaded this, hoping for a combination of horror and history. If you enjoy books where the female characters' clothing keeps coming off in the most improbable circumstances, this is the book for you. At once nowhere and everywhere, this terror has become the expedition’s nemesis. There is something out there in the frigid darkness. No, the real threat is far more terrifying. And yet the real threat isn’t from the constantly shifting, alien landscape, the flesh-numbing temperatures or being crushed by the unyielding, frozen ocean. Scurvy, starvation and even madness are beginning to take their toll. Supplies of fuel and food are running low. The most advanced scientific enterprise ever mounted, Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition in search of the fabled Northwest Passage had every expectation of triumph.īut for almost two years his ships, HMS Terror and Erebus, have been trapped in the Arctic ice. Stephen King hailed Dan Simmons' best-selling novel as 'a brilliant, massive combination of history and supernatural horror', and it's now a chilling 10 part AMC Original TV series from Ridley Scott. Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Terror by Dan Simmons, read by Tom Sellwood.

The terror by dan simmons