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. Launched in 2007, The Abominable Charles Christopher is the critically-acclaimed webcomic from renowned comic artist Karl Kerschl. It follows the adventures of a childlike sasquatch through a forest full of colourful animal characters and has won several awards, including the Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic in 2011. So far, so good. However, now we get to my biggest issue with the book, which I think may be a breaking-point for some readers. Having gone through all of the preparation, the travelling and the physical stresses of climbing up Mount Everest, there is a point when the reader (and the characters discover what ‘the abominable’ is. Without giving details, most readers will find the item a surprise. I will say that although personally I found it horrible, but I must admit that when ‘the great reveal’ happens, it is something I found rather unconvincing. Horrible though it is, personally I wasn’t convinced that it was worth all the effort, horror, pain and death it has taken through the book to uncover it. Dan uses it to claim that it may have altered history, a point I wasn’t persuaded by. It turns out that the secret that Bromley died for, the one that the Nazis wish to recover, is a trove of sexually explicit photographs featuring the pedophiliac behavior of a certain well-known Nazi leader.

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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.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)

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First: Why ask Hitler to cancel only the invasion of England? Why not threaten Hitler to make the photographs public if he doesn’t stop the whole goddamn war?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. Words with Wine is a perfect box for you if you are a wine drinker and like enjoying a good book. Every month you will receive a book, a full-size bottle of wine as well as information about the book, author and tasting notes for your wine. You can also become a part of an online book club where you can enjoy your wine along with the book of the month and share pictures with the online community. Currently, Abominable Book Club is offering a coupon for 20% off. Out of 13 active coupons, this is the best Abominable Book Club coupons available today. I’d…seen him before…In a photograph on a poster in a Munich beer hall. The face had been somewhat older, a little fuller…but the intensity of the dark gaze was the same, as was the ridiculous Charlie Chaplin mustache. At that moment, I couldn’t remember his name.

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The Abominable Book Club: A new UK based Horror/Thriller Subscription Service. (Box Opening SPOILERS!) Third: Why waste so much lives and time on securing photographs of a nobody? (Remember in 1924-25, Hitler was a nobody). I loved the mountain sequences, the mountaineering, the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s history. I thought the characters were well developed and I wish I could know any of the Jake Perry group, all of them in fact. In a book this lengthy, you really get to KNOW the characters. 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.Charles Christopher comes face to face with the scourge of the Cedar Forest–the terrible King Gilgamesh! Concurrently, a British poet, aristocrat and WWI veteran Lord Percival Brombley has also disappeared on Everest's treacherous slopes. Dan Simmons enjoys writing about failure. In The Terror he writes about the doomed Franklin Expedition which was lost in the Arctic while searching for the North-West passage. Similarly, in The Abominable, he creates a story of “search-and-rescue” of a mountaineer who disappears at the same time on Mt. Everest when Mallory and Irvine vanish during their unsuccessful Mt. Everest summit effort (in June 1924). And while this book is not about Mallory and Irvine, their failure to summit Mt. Everest plays an important role in setting up the plot of the book. This book was fiction and my favourite characters were the yetis. I would recommend this book to people who are interested in animals and mountains.