Advantages: Gripping, spine- tingling book Disadvantages: A little slow at the beginning and some violence.
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The Terror
Dan Simmons
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 Dan Simmons. This novel is a fictional account of Sir John Frankl ...
The Terror is a novel by American author Dan Simmons and is set in and around the famous search for the North West passage by Sir John Franklin in 1846-1849. The real Franklin mission became legendary because the full facts of the mission are still unknow ...
Advantages: Fascinating, brilliant book in all aspects Disadvantages: None, absolutly none!
I have to start off by telling you that this is my absolutely fab book of all times. I love it, admire it, have been inspired by it and recommended it to all my friends and relatives. But I also need to tell you that none of them have understood what my f ...
Advantages: Well written and researched, with a fast moving and involving story. Disadvantages: The two sections of the book create a disjointed feel and it is slightly cliched in places.
...'Sunbird', written in 1974, is based around an the discovery of an ancient city in Africa, so badly ruined as to be almost invisible, and depicts the journey to uncover the secret of the city's destruction by a hunchbacked archaeologist and his beautiful, ...
Advantages: ONe of the best by Wilbur Smith Disadvantages: Could spoil the rest of his books , as some might not measure up
...This is probably his best book and contains all the usual ingredients of war, love, friendship, betrayal and ultimate revenge.
Written in two parts, the book draws parallels between the central characters in an age gap spanning thousands of years. The lo ...
