The Abominable, (Paperback)

from jolerie

The dry winds of Mount Everest desiccate and mummify a corpse far more efficiently than could the high priests of ancient Egypt. Page 86 The year is 1925. A recovery team sets out on a impossibly dangerous mission to Mount Everest to locate and retrieve the body of Lord Bromley, a gentleman that ...

from jpporter

I was somewhat disappointed in this novel. At every turn this book seems to have been written for the sole purpose of being the basis for a big-budget movie with Brad Pitt as the American, Jude Law as the British mountaineer, Catherine Zeta-Jones as the British Lady tea-plantation owner, Ben King...

from noblechicken

Oh how long I have been married to reading this book. So meticulously written, long winded and some-what boring. The introduction is suspiciously engaging, hinting at a true account of an early Everest climb, and perhaps by the misleading title, turning to some creature feature, a la Simmons prev...

from ChristopherSwann

2.5 stars You can read several reviews that detail the flaws in this book, and I agree with most of them. What keeps me from giving this two stars is that Simmons can still write. I kept trying to imagine how else to describe the climbing scenes that Simmons described, and how to share informatio...

from stefferoo

Dan Simmons has always been hit or miss for me, but I have to say his historical-horror novel The Terror about Franklin's lost expedition to the arctic remains one of my all time favorite books ever. While his newest novel The Abominable may not be a follow up, it certainly can be considered a co...