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Bezig met laden... The Terror (2007)door Dan Simmons
  
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Audiobook. What an oppressive story and so strangely paced. Strong but questionable narrative choices. I thoroughly enjoyed it. John Lee read it very well, a good voice actor. (  ) invisiblecityzen | Mar 13, 2022 |  Audiobook. What an oppressive story and so strangely paced. Strong but questionable narrative choices. I thoroughly enjoyed it. John Lee read it very well, a good voice actor. ( ) invisiblecityzen | Mar 13, 2022 | I don't normally take this long to read a book. Not that I'm a rapid reader, but this book had a terrible habit of boring me after capturing my attention. On and off, mind you. I didn't hate it. I often found myself liking it. But - dear lord - there so many slumps in the narrative. (  ) ennuiprayer | Jan 14, 2022 | AMAZING! Чтобы понимать, насколько она эмейзинг - это 800-страничная книга в твердой обложке, которую я таскала за собой везде. Читать в метро, в автобусе, в обеденный перерыв на работе, читать, читать, читать! Она потрясающая с самых первых страниц и до упора. Надо признаться, что "их злобная зверюшка" произвела на меня меньше впечатления, чем хотелось бы (но я просто в целом не люблю подобные сюжеты про неведомых чудовищ), но вот сама история экспедиции, выживания, бесконечно нарастающей усталости, отчаяния, надежды и преодоления - затягивает с первых страниц и не отпускает. И какие живые, настоящие персонажи!.. И юмор, простигосподи, даже юмор был посреди всего этого ужаса. От этого, пожалуй, персонажи еще реальнее - это не просто пафосная история трагедии, а живые люди в ужасных обстоятельствах, они остаются людьми и не чужды иронии. Отдельно хочется отметить переводчицу Марию Куренную, я запомню это имя и буду обращать внимание на другие переводы ее авторства - язык волшебный, абсолютно нет ощущения картонности, как у большинства переводных книг. Хотя, признаться, сейчас я нервно моргнула, осознав, что Дево - это de Veaux в оригинальном тексте. В общем, теперь я буду всячески советовать эту книгу всем кому не лень, а также с нетерпением ждать экранизации, которая уже вот-вот!.. (  ) alissee | Dec 8, 2021 | 3.25 stars In 1845, two ships sail from England looking for the Northwest Passage. The Terror and the Erebus later become stuck in ice for three years, as the men manning the ships died not only from starvation, cold, and scurvy, but there is something stalking them. Something… they don’t know what it is but it’s white, and much bigger than the white bears they have seen. It seems to appear out of nowhere to kill, maim, or maul. This is a mix of survival, historical fiction, and (some) horror. The horror (the “thing” out there), I found was minimal. The focus was on the survival aspect. The book is very long, and I had a hard time getting interested until the last 1/3 of the book – that last 1/3 is what brought my rating up ¼ star. And it would have been nice for the book to be much shorter. The book is told from multiple points of view at different points in time, occasionally jumping back and forth in time. By that last bit of the book where I was more interested, it was chronological. There were a lot of men on the two ships and, although, I was able to keep what each of them did straight (at least those whose viewpoint we followed), I wasn’t able to keep straight who “belonged’ on which ship. The end was a bit vague in a couple of cases, I thought. Descriptions of the ships and workings of the ships were less interesting to me. A bit horrifying, but more interesting was the description of what happens as someone develops scurvy. Anyone looking for horror, though, this didn’t fit the bill for me at all, unfortunately. It was not scary, in my opinion. There was a brief author’s note at the end that really just provided citations for his research. It hinted at the fact that this – the “Franklin Expedition” really happened, but I still wasn’t sure, although “Franklin Expedition” did sound familiar to me. Other reviews tell me it did, and I’ve just read a bit on wikipedia about it. That is, the two ships set out to look for the Northwest Passage and disappeared. I guess this partly explains the vagueness of the ending. ( ) LibraryCin | Oct 10, 2021 |
 An immobilized ship can be a potent metaphor for certain states of existential unease, as it is in Conrad’s novella “The Shadow-Line” (114 pages in the Everyman’s Library edition) or Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (625 lines). And the polar regions, frigid as death itself, have always provided an exceptionally hospitable environment for horror: Mary Shelley (“Frankenstein”), Edgar Allan Poe (“The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket”), H. P. Lovecraft (“At the Mountains of Madness”) and John W. Campbell (“Who Goes There?”) have all dreamed dire happenings at one pole or the other, at much more modest length. (“The Terror” is dedicated, with “many thanks for the indelible Arctic memories,” to 12 members of the cast and crew of the classic 1951 movie based on Campbell’s story: “The Thing From Another World.”) But of the many possible approaches to making artistic sense of the Franklin fiasco, just about the least promising, I’d say, would be to turn it into an epic-length ripping yarn.  Skilfully, horribly, Simmons details the months of darkness – the temperatures of -50F and lower; the shrieking groans of the ice; the wind; the hunger – from the multiple perspectives of the men on board the ship, and with such detail that I defy readers not to grab another jumper. He adds in another, more deliberate evil: a stalking, polar bear-like monster which tracks over the icy wastelands around the ships, picking the men off one by one. "To go out on the frozen sea in the dark now with that … thing … waiting in the jumble of pressure ridges and tall sastrugi was certain death," he writes. "Messages were passed between the ships now only during those dwindling minutes of half-light around noon. In a few days, there would be no real day at all, only arctic night. Roundtheclock night. One hundred days of night." What a horrifying thought. BevatHeeft de bewerkingHeeft als een commentaar op de tekst
Their captain's insane vision of a Northwest Passage has kept the crewmen of HMS Terror trapped in Arctic ice for two years without a thaw. But the real threat to their survival isn't the ever-shifting landscape of white, the provisions that have turned to poison, or the ship slowly buckling in the grip of the frozen ocean. The real threat is whatever is out in the frigid darkness, stalking their ship, snatching and brutally killing their fellow seamen. Captain Crozier, who has taken over the expedition after the death of its original leader, Sir John Franklin, draws equally on his strengths as a mariner and on the mystical beliefs of the Eskimo woman he's rescued as he sets a course on foot out of the Arctic and away from the insatiable beast. But every day the dwindling crew becomes more deranged and mutinous, until even Crozier begins to fear there may be no escape from an ever-more-inconceivable nightmare. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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