I read recently that you should NEVER score a book low, because in fact in the future, that may come back to bite you. Well then what’s the crap point of having an opinion???!! One thing I will always do, except, I really hate any kind of confrontation so as long as I am invisible I as safe, is have a very unfortunately usually unpopular opinion.
Okay! Dan Simmons is an amazing author, and I’m at a loss to describe how he became a mountaineer expert, but that’s exactly what he did. Unfortunately for us, the eager audience, we are also meant to be mountaineer experts. At first, yes, we want to understand the terms. Woo. Then later, HALF the book has gone by. One might wonder…
Well wonder no more!! It is PURE 1920’s mountain-climbing at it’s purest, and, I happen to have been previously interested in the real-life disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, whose fictional spectres make a huge part of this book, and again due to the author’s own skill, keeps you reading…
But. When the book is 3/4 through and you realize you’ve been taken for a loooooong mountaineering ride, you start to be a little irritated. What happens in the last 3/4? I am NOT in the business of revealing plot, BUT. Let’s just say we blame it all on the Nazi’s, and one page on Hitler’s assumed crimes (we can really blame the man for anything no?) is so disgusting and vile, I would have rather not read any of it at all. So. Unless you are the MOST
Mountaineering expert EVER! And you are SO interested in what it might have been like to climb Everest in 1924, this book is simply a waste of every human’s time. HAVE YOU SEEN HOW LONG IT IS??? I read all of it. You are welcome, if you really need a spoiler of the nasty vile Hitler-esq crux only revealed in the last 20 pages, to ask me via message and I will save you some time. Let’s just say I was REALLY holding out for Bigfoot.
The author is mad-talented, this was a horrid waste of paper.
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