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In a Fitzgerald-ish touch, Simmons dedicates the novel to his fictional creation. I don’t know if this is meant to be clever, coy, or funny, but by the end of the book, the only joke is that anyone could mistake Jake Smith for a human being.

Our creed is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There is that little difference. We adhere to ours in practice, you don't.” Lccn 2013017754 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary_edition Nevertheless, this book fell short of my expectations. Its dragging pace played into this, certainly. By the time things really started to heat up it was already three-quarters of the way through the book and a little too late. Still, it was the climax and big reveal that disappointed me the most. Without going into spoilers, let's just say that one of the reasons I loved The Terror so much was its touch of the supernatural. From its description, The Abominable looks like it teases the same, but things didn't actually turn out that way. The big twist was ultimately a let down, and I'll just leave it at that. This book certainly isn’t abominable, but it doesn’t exactly soar to the height of the peak of Mount Everest either.

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My favourite character was Lady Agatha because she took the Yeti's in just like her own children and was a kind and gentle woman from a baby to elderly.The Deacon-Clairoux-Perry expedition is one funded by Lord Percival’s mother, Lady Elizabeth Marion Bromley, and not sanctioned by any Mountaineering Society, which is why details of it (according to Simmons) to this day remain less known, if known at all. The rest of the book is then spent attempting to climb Everest, with consequences for all involved. It takes twists and turns I wasn't expecting, and the title of the book might seem like a misnomer to some, as expectations of snowmen are a bit of a red herring. That doesn't detract from the story. It's a hefty book, but it doesn't seem like it, and I thoroughly enjoyed Simmons' return to the cold landscapes he evoked so wonderfully in THE TERROR.

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The book was about Ellen, perry and Grandma all trying to save the yetis from being hunted down. But to do that they had to protest in front of the queen. The characters hope the queen will tell the people to stop hunting the yetis. That said, for those who don’t like hot drinks, or who can’t eat chocolate/wheat/etc, then you might consider it too much money or too much risk to pay for items you can’t use. It’s nice, then, that the Bare Bones option exists for those who just want to be surprised every month with some new items for the library.

Something strange has happened. While my attention was elsewhere, someone has apparently stolen the last quarter of the book and replaced it with a sub-Indiana Jones pulp-fiction novel from the 1950s. I am confused how this could have happened, and, more to the point, WHY this has happened. Based on the book’s title, and on Simmons’s earlier novel, The Terror, a careless reader might have been led to believe that our industrious little climbing team would be stalked by a yeti. That does not happen. There are no mythical-yet-deadly creatures in The Abominable. That’s actually kind of a shame.

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I appreciate the effort and research which must have gone into this book, but the exorbitant amount of detail simply washed the plot away like an avalanche of unimportant facts (Yep. I did it again) I now know more about 1920s mountain-climbing equipment than I ever thought possible. I cannot argue that Mr Simmons has done his research, but I would suggest that he didn't need to include it in its entirety. Still, if someone were to ask me now if I know the benefits of equipping 12-point rather than 10-point crampons, or the composition of 1920s climbing ropes, I would be able to answer them. Sadly I fear that this situation may never arise, and that this information may be taking up space in my brain that might better be used for other purposes. As far as the story goes, my companions have spoken to a few people about matters Everest and gathered their equipment but little else has happened. As you might expect, much of the feel of the book is created by a lot of technical talk, which gives the impression that it is really a climber talking of his passion. There’s enough belaying and traversing for any climber, I think. I’d be interested to hear what M John Harrison (SF writer and experienced climber himself) would make of this novel. I think he’d like that aspect of the novel. Where The Abominable works so well is in its continuous blurring of reality and fiction. Real people and events are mixed up with fictional. To my mind, that may create a broad appeal, straddling various genres with ease. Some may just read it as a mystery novel, others by turns an adventure novel, a fictional biography, a tale that in its own way reflects the decadent decline and upheaval of the world in that interwar period between World War 1 and World War 2. For most, but not all of the time, Dan creates a definite world that works. And Fourth: On the other hand, what stops Hitler from saying, “It’s not me in the photographs. It’s my double.”?Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared suggest the white summit of Everest appeared...” 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. 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." After a slow beginning, the much anticipated action was welcomed, heart poundingly intense and fast paced. Up in thin air, as the mountaineers experienced some gruesome unexpected discoveries and suspenseful thrills, the reader would be left momentarily breathless. The perplexing question surrounding Percival's disappearance was an intriguing twist (albeit not entirely surprising given the era that all this occurred). I don't get thrilled about climbing novels. Yep, even one of those Tibetan hills. Sure, bits are pretty cool but I always had a bit of a hang-up about all the locals being treated like disposable rags. Oops, we lost another porter. Oh, well, good chap, let's sally forth.