Sealed for 125 years a secret manuscript by Charles Dickens' friend and some-time ... more
collaborator Wilkie Collins reveals the dark secret that obsessed both men - a secret that not only ended their long friendship but also brought each writer to the ver...
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Sealed for 125 years, a secret manuscript by Charles Dickens' friend and some-time ... more
collaborator Wilkie Collins, reveals the dark secret that obsessed both men. On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, Dickens - at the height of his powers and popularity - hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever.
Advantages: Gripping, spine- tingling book Disadvantages: A little slow at the beginning and some violence.
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The Terror
DanSimmons
I don't know about you but I do like reading fiction that combines a little bit of history in it.
So it is with this book 'The Terror' by DanSimmons.
This novel is a fictional account of Sir John Franklin's expedition of discovery to the North Pacific in search of the elusive Northwest Passage. The HMS Terror and HMS Erebus had been to both poles in arduous missions where their reinforced hulls made them resistant to being crushed when trapped in winter sea ice. More interestingly, this story is about a real disaster. Not one member of that expedition came home alive.
In the 19th century, this outcome was shocking and several attempts at rescues were attempted, and even to the present day expeditions are still being sent out to try to find the wrecks of the ships or any new clues to ...
Advantages: Masterful story-telling, very strong characters Disadvantages: None
If you think that the Web dominates communications today, get yourself put into cryogenic fugue for eight hundred years or so, and if DanSimmons? vision comes to pass, not only will they actually be able to revive you, you?ll be able to see *real* Web domination. For the Web of the twenty-ninth century draws communities together *physically* ? its gateways are Farcaster portals which can interconnect on demand to give zero travel time between two points. (Fancy a residence built on a dozen different planets? No problem. Dinner at that restaurant you found while on honeymoon? Be there in five. Office space in the crisp air of the high mountains accessed from a door in your country retreat? Very popular these days). But not all known worlds are Web-connected, and travel beyond the technological gossamer still incurs the time ...
I am in awe of Dan Simmons - Stephen King Sealed for 125 years, a secret manuscript by Charles Dickens' friend and some-time collaborator Wilkie Collins, reveals the dark secret that obsessed both men - a secret that not only ended their long friendship, but also brought each writer to the very brink of murder. On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens - at the height of his powers and popularity - hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. His train jumped the rail and plummeted into the marsh below. Dickens assisted the maimed and dying but the experience shook him to the core.His personality visibly darkened, his famous public readings began to focus on the most violent scenes he'd ever written, especially the terrible murder of Nancy by Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist. The author acted out the murder, adding dialogue and gesture, screaming, begging, strangling and cutting. By night Dickens and Collins began stalking the underbelly of London, obsessed with corpses, catacombs, murders, lime pits, opium dens, disguises and serial killers. Research - or something darker? Or perhaps Wilkie Collins - a laudanum addict with a seething, Salieri-esque jealousy of Dickens' success - had another agenda?
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