The Abominable

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It turns out that the secret that Bromley died for, the one that the Nazis wish to recover, is a trove of sexually explicit photographs featuring the pedophiliac behavior of a certain well-known Nazi leader. If you manage to look past this sometimes silly feeling 'twist' though, the rest is pretty great. Good characters (even if the narrator is perhaps my least favorite): "The Deacon" - incredibly strong, interesting, often unreadable. "J C" - so French that not even a Frenchman can complain of him being a stereotype and Lady Katherine Christina Regina Bromley-Montfort "Reggie", well, who's not a bit smitten by Reggie? So, if you are looking for a subscription service that will help you to collect special edition book series, this might be what you are looking for.

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Retracing Percival Brombley's last steps, the recovery team stops at Rongbuk monastery for a blessing to ascend Chomolungma(Goddess Mother of the World), a ritual that many climbers attempting the mountain follow, if only to appease their superstitious sherpas. The team is forewarned of a doomed expedition, of the presence of mythical demons:Dan Simmons enjoys writing about failure. In The Terror he writes about the doomed Franklin Expedition which was lost in the Arctic while searching for the North-West passage. Similarly, in The Abominable, he creates a story of “search-and-rescue” of a mountaineer who disappears at the same time on Mt. Everest when Mallory and Irvine vanish during their unsuccessful Mt. Everest summit effort (in June 1924). And while this book is not about Mallory and Irvine, their failure to summit Mt. Everest plays an important role in setting up the plot of the book. In summary, The Abominable is a book that works brilliantly well most of the time. There is no doubt that it is well written, engrossing and exciting, although like The Terror before it, it may be too slow, too involved and complex for some. It makes an interesting counterpart to The Terror. and it's fun - there are enough real-world people populating the book to give the conceit veracity, but i do think one needs to tread carefully - the whole reveal at the end has, to my knowledge and my "really?" googling skills, no factual basis. which i guess in the world of this book means that it worked, but it also seems like overkill. Simmons' prose is as excellent as ever, and the narrator, Jake, feels fully formed and alive. It's a tale of derring-do on the world's highest peak of course but it's also about friendship, and adversity, and conquering obstacles. There's also much in the latter part of the book that reminds me of some of Alistair Maclean's adventures, with skullduggery in snowy landscapes.

The abominable : a novel : Simmons, Dan, 1948- : Free

The incomplete manuscript of this charming story was found amongst Eva Ibbotson's papers at her death in 2010. Although it has been finished by her son, this has all the familiar ingredients of a trademark Ibbotson tale: it is warm-hearted, funny and full of magical imagination. But as well as humour, there is also a powerful message here about the importance of nature and the environment, protecting endangered species, and opposing cruelty and injustice. Illustrated by Sharon Rentta, who also provided the illustrations for Ibbotson's One Dog and His Boy, this touching and engaging story is irresistible. A classic in the making. June 1924, distinguished mountaineer George Mallory with climbing recruit Andrew Irvine perished on their attempt to be the first to conquer Mount Everest, the tallest and fiercest unclimbed ( at that time )mountain in the world.Thirty-seven years in the force, and if I was allowed to choose just one thing to erase from my mind, what’s inside that room would be it.’

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Dan received his Masters in Education from Washington University in St. Louis in 1971. He then worked in elementary education for 18 years—2 years in Missouri, 2 years in Buffalo, New York—one year as a specially trained BOCES "resource teacher" and another as a sixth-grade teacher—and 14 years in Colorado. If you are searching for a more bookish box complete with candles, and other bookish goodies. Bookishly has you covered. They have a wide variety of book subscription boxes that will fit your tastes. Whether that is Classics, Thrillers, Poetry, Coffee Subscriptions, Tea Subscriptions as well as Vintage books. Bookishly also offers a Book Blind Date option perfect if you want a surprise with your books. The title of the book is misleading. There is no Abominable Snowman in “The Abominable”. There is no yeti. Instead, there are Nazi climbers, who are trying to retrieve photographs of a pedophile Adolf Hitler, which somehow ends up on Mt. Everest (which Simmons tries to explain unconvincingly which I am not bothering to write about since it would take around 500 more words to explain all the sub-plots). Dan's first published story appeared on Feb. 15, 1982, the day his daughter, Jane Kathryn, was born. He's always attributed that coincidence to "helping in keeping things in perspective when it comes to the relative importance of writing and life." The Abominable is presented as a “memoir” of a fictional mountaineer named Jacob Perry, whose manuscript Simmons receives after Perry’s death (as promised earlier by Perry, but Simmons receives it 11 years later than it was meant to; due to Perry’s stupid relatives).As it turns out, Percival Bromley was an English spy, and he had something the Nazis wanted. For reasons I can’t begin to explain, Bromley decided to hide from Hitler’s minions atop the highest mountain on earth – a mountain no one has ever climbed.

THE ABOMINABLE | Kirkus Reviews

I held the book in my hands, my wrists aching from its terrifying weight. It seemed to me that Mr. Simmons enjoyed challenging himself to make each book weightier than the last. If this world should run out of trees, the angry remnants of humanity should beat a path to Simmons' door and ask him why he couldn't have engaged the services of an editor. Are they really so expensive? This part opens with the three friends (Jake, J.C. and Deacon) summiting Matterhorn, but if you think that this indicates that in the next couple of chapters they would be at the foot of Mt. Everest, you are wrong. They’ll have two more “practice” climbs before they sail for India and eventually trek to Tibet from Darjeeling. Moreover, you’ll know the benefits of using 12 point crampons over 10 point crampons (if you're a slow learner, don't worry. Simmons will remind you every now and then); you’ll read about dozens of modifications done by half a dozen people on oxygen tanks, same with warm clothes made out of parachutes and whatnot, etcetera etcetera, while travelling with our three friends through half of Europe. For an entire year, Brombley's questionable presence on Everest in 1924 has been buried in mystery and prompted a recovery expedition, funded by Brombley's aggrieved mother, to search for and return her son's remains to her. The recovery team is headed by Mallory's British contemporary Richard Deacon, whose motives for joining the expedition seem unclear, guide expert Jean-Claude Clairoux, Brombley's cousin - Lady Reggie Brombley-Montfort, and Jacob Perry - a self-described "unskilled and anxious impoverished Yank." urn:oclc:876350318 Republisher_date 20170808100710 Republisher_operator [email protected] Republisher_time 398 Scandate 20170806203210 Scanner ttscribe24.hongkong.archive.org Scanningcenter hongkong Source What I like most about Simmons is that he creates an appropriate atmosphere in his longish books with slowly simmering plots. The dread in his books builds-up extremely slowly and erratically, and then reaches a crescendo by the end. He takes a lot of time to do this, but eventually he does get there. That’s what he did in The Terror. And Part-II of The Abominable does give you the feel that that’s what going to happen in Part-III.

The notion that Adolf Hitler was a sexual pervert is a tired one (further reading: Rosenbaum’s Explaining Hitler). Simmons’s attempts to tie this risible fiction into Rudolf Hess’s real-life flight to England is patently stupid (speculation of the Hess flight was done much better by Greg Iles in Spandau Phoenix).