Drood - Dan Simmons

Summer of Night - Dan Simmons

Summer Of Night is one of Dan Simmon s earlier novels that I was inspired to pick up after being impressed by his latest novel, The Terror and having enjoyed re-reading Carrion Comfort recently; an old favourite of mine which I revisited and found just as impressive second time around. Unfortunately this novel is nowhere near on the same par as either of those two books and feels hackneyed and far too similiar to other material we have seen written by bigger and better writers. There is nothing new in the plot and nothing we have not seen before here and the executiuon just feels sloppy and lazy. If all this sounds as though I am being a bit harsh then that is because I ...

Summer of Night - Dan Simmons

Summer Of Night is one of Dan Simmon s earlier novels that I was inspired to pick up after being impressed by his latest novel, The Terror and having enjoyed re-reading Carrion Comfort recently; an old favourite of mine which I revisited and found just as impressive second time around. Unfortunately this novel is nowhere near on the same par as either of those two books and feels hackneyed and far too similiar to other material we have seen written by bigger and better writers. There is nothing new in the plot and nothing we have not seen before here and the executiuon just feels sloppy and lazy. If all this sounds as though I am being a bit harsh then that is because I ...

The Terror - Dan Simmons

going to thaw anytime soon and before long, the Ships will be unrepairable....a time is coming when hard decisions indeed are going to need to be made! So begins Dan Simmons latest chiller, The Terror based on the true life lost expedition by Sir John Franklin of which little trace was ever found. Based as much on fact as is humanely possible, the book is a detailed account of just what such an expedition must have entailed and the majority of the characters are real crew members who were lost never to return. Of course, the creation of a monster hunting them across the ice is entirely fictional, but it only adds to the heightened sense of imagined horror and builds ...

The Terror - Dan Simmons

going to thaw anytime soon and before long, the Ships will be unrepairable....a time is coming when hard decisions indeed are going to need to be made! So begins Dan Simmons latest chiller, The Terror based on the true life lost expedition by Sir John Franklin of which little trace was ever found. Based as much on fact as is humanely possible, the book is a detailed account of just what such an expedition must have entailed and the majority of the characters are real crew members who were lost never to return. Of course, the creation of a monster hunting them across the ice is entirely fictional, but it only adds to the heightened sense of imagined horror and builds ...

Ilium - Dan Simmons

On the dark plain of Ilium Greeks and Trojans are locked in combat for the ninth year of their brutal war. On each side the great heroes wreak havoc. Arms and legs are lopped off, heads go spinning away as blood gouts out in crimson fans, arrows plunge into men's guts and end up protruding from their anuses... While the heroes battle it out, the Gods cavort on Mount Olympos. Zeus, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Ares, and Apollo, scheme, aid and abet their favourites, playing cruel and brutal games of manipulation. Scuttling here and there to assist them are the lesser deities, such as Melete, the Muse, who musters a small band of Scholics to monitor the fighting around ...

Ilium - Dan Simmons

On the dark plain of Ilium Greeks and Trojans are locked in combat for the ninth year of their brutal war. On each side the great heroes wreak havoc. Arms and legs are lopped off, heads go spinning away as blood gouts out in crimson fans, arrows plunge into men's guts and end up protruding from their anuses... While the heroes battle it out, the Gods cavort on Mount Olympos. Zeus, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Ares, and Apollo, scheme, aid and abet their favourites, playing cruel and brutal games of manipulation. Scuttling here and there to assist them are the lesser deities, such as Melete, the Muse, who musters a small band of Scholics to monitor the fighting around ...