 Reviewing an old book today. I don't even know what I'm going to say about it. Pretty much remember everything about it. Dusty. Good God. Hello everybody. E here. Welcome to a retro review. I am going to do with this series. I'm going to review books that I read ages ago. I went back and I checked my reviews. Also, I'm going to try and keep this to books that I recall a lot about so I'm not sitting here going. I think this happened and I think that happened. Oh, today we are talking about The Terror by Dan Simmons. A lot of you requested this one. I don't know if that picked it up or not. It's pretty bright in here. But yeah. It really irks me. This is one of my favorite books of all time. It's in my top 20. I'm not sure exactly where it is. But it irks me that I only have a paperback copy of this. I have a hardcover edition of The Abominable which really upsets me because I hated that one and loved this one. I'm a big fan of anything in a cold climate. Whether that just be you know just cold weather like even out in the desert. But when you add in the snow and the ice and all that stuff especially in this location. Is it the polar ice caps? That part I can't remember. I know it's the Franklin Expedition. Yeah, it just says the land of ice and desolation. But I think it's the polar ice caps. I'm probably wrong. I did a lot of reading up on the Franklin Expedition really close to reading this book. Not because I wanted to read this book, just because I was fascinated with it. I even watched the documentary on the Discovery Channel about it. It's an ill-fated expedition. The expedition actually happened. But this is a fictionalized version of events. Kind of like Omokatsu's The Hunger which tackles the Donner party. Or you know just about any of the numerous Jack the Ripper stories like From Hell. It takes a real life occurrence and twists it and adds a supernatural aspect. The supernatural aspect was probably my favorite part of the book. I love the well-rounded characters especially some of the gay characters. Which he showed the two sides of that. He showed a there was a bad gay person. There was a good gay person. I like the way that he included those characters to where it didn't seem forced. It seemed natural. And especially from the book where the happenings are in the 1800s. 1845. It says it on here. 1845 Franklin Expedition. But the characters were very well drawn. Especially the main character, the captain whatever his name was. I had a little bit of an issue toward the end with some anti-climactic stuff. But when you settle in for a book this long. I think my paperback copy is almost a thousand pages. It's 953 pages. When you settle into something like that. Especially like with Stephen King's It or even The Stand. You get so far into it and you have a big climactic ending. And then you're just kind of wrapping things up. Unfortunately with a longer novel you have a lot of wrap up. I didn't tick off any stars for that wrap up there at the end. But it is something that I will say that had the only part of the story that gets a little monotonous. Gets a little long-winded is the section after they leave the ship. So it's pretty much that whole that whole bit right there. I think it actually goes on for two to three hundred pages. If I remember correctly. I'm doing exactly what I said I wasn't going to do. Like I normally say one thing and then do another. But these reviews are pretty natural. They're exactly natural. I don't think about it too much before I sit down and do them. It's like you know we're sitting around talking about books. I dig that. I know a lot of you requested me do this review in particular. So I hope this is good enough. If you guys liked the idea of the retro reviews or if you would prefer that I reread the book to be more specific about like character names. I'm terrible with character names. Be more specific with the specific. Did I say specific? I hope not. More specific with character names and details like that. If you would prefer that in future videos let me know down there in the comments below. But until next time I have been E. You have been U. This has been a retro review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye. There's some doodoo or something. It's not doodoo. There's some but it's sketchy material on the on the spy in this book. The men on board the HMS terror part of the ill-fated 1845 Franklin expedition are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle. Arctic Circle. I said polar ice caps. That was so wrong. I said I said it didn't tell me and it tell. I'm an idiot. You guys know that.