The Abominable

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sometimes the yeti raided the village of Chobuk, but never the Rongbuk Monastary itself, drinking the blood of yaks, killing men with one swipe of their clawed paw-hands, and…carrying off the Chobuk women." 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. this book taught me what the tibetan "sky burial" ritual was all about, in a much more gruesome way than what wikipedia describes. but don't read the article - it's probably better to be surprised in the book. and by "surprised," i mean "horrified." which is culturally insensitive, i know, but i can own that. (it is way worse than the wiki)

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This book is about a team of climbers who are hired to go to Everest to find someone who was thought to have been lost on an expedition. On paper, I should have really liked this book, but it had quite a few shortcomings I could not overlook. When he does get around to the action though, it can be very suspenseful. If I'd ever entertained thoughts of becoming a mountain climber, this book pretty much killed them dead. Mountain climbers are insane; I'll settle for living their adventures vicariously though books like this one, thanks. That being said, readers with a fear of heights might have a rough time with this, and of course Simmons is also the master of pushing his characters to extremes by placing them in these horrible, godforsaken situations. And it doesn't get any scarier and more extreme than on Mount Everest. Jake Perry, who is telling the story, is telling the story.... Umm... apparently the monotony of the story wore off on me. Let's try that again. Jake Perry tells us the story of the fictional 1924 attempt to climb Mount Everest under the guise of retrieving the body of Lord Percival Bromley, who died on the mountain the prior year. Crampons. Oxygen tanks. Balloon pants filled with goose down. Super Special Rope. Dying bodies (because of altitude). Dying bodies (because of bad guy/yetis). And Jake, who is always the voice of reason. Which basically means that he spends the entire book whining because what they're trying to do is so totally insane.Third: Why waste so much lives and time on securing photographs of a nobody? (Remember in 1924-25, Hitler was a nobody).

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but it also had humor. for someone with my personal reading experiments, this is very funny, indeed: Simmons is in his top form in Part-II where our climbers finally start to confront Mt. Everest, but unfortunately, it goes all downhill from here. 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.

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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).Some people would probably be bored to tears by this, but most who have read any of those other books by Simmons probably had a pretty good idea that there would be long explanations of the terrain, food, clothing, equipment, etc. etc. The question for many readers will be is if the detail helps sell the experience of the book or if they think that it just turns into Simmons showing off his research skills. Smith – who, coincidentally enough, writes a lot like Dan Simmons – begins his lengthy story in 1924. He is climbing with his two buddies on the Matterhorn when he learns of the disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine on Mount Everest. Smith’s climbing buddies are the Englishman Richard Davis Deacon (character attributes: stiff upper lip; pipe) and the Frenchman Jean-Claude Clairoux (character attributes: emotional volatility; says merde!). Date Night With A Book is a UK-based book subscription service, that offers monthly subscriptions. Their subscription service covers the UK and the EU. Unfortunately, they don’t offer subscriptions to the rest of the world. If that is what you are thinking – you are correct. It is nonsensical. Of course, one of the huge problems with this entire novel is that it is written with perfect hindsight. All the contemporary characters are blessed with impossible foresight, as though they were fashioned by a 21st century author. They use a new type of rope, wear new-style crampons on their feet, have modern ice axes in their hands. They know that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis are a threat to the whole world, long before they actually become a threat to the whole world. As an avid reader, reading books has become a big part of life. However, most of us have busy lives and can’t always search for brand-new releases. That’s where book subscriptions come in! These services deliver a carefully curated selection of books straight to your doorstep, so you never have to worry about searching through new releases to find your next best read: