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Originally Posted by Crusader
Finally finished The Terror by Dan Simmons. I have mixed feelings about it. To some degree it was very good, but the length just made it feel as if it was going on forever (and I like long novels!). It almost felt as if the length was meant make you suffer the same attrition that the crew members suffered. 
The ending was also a bit weird. Completely falls in the "What the heck?" category. |
I agree - the ending seemed to be a fantasy tacked onto what had been (up to then) an adventure/mystery/horror novel. I wished Simmons had been content to stick with "natural" causes, and not invented some supernatural spirit.