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ALA Reading List Award for History, Short List
A thrilling tale of high-altitude death and survival set on the snowy summits of Mount Everest, from the bestselling author of The Terror
It's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shocking disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine high on the shoulder of Mt. Everest. By the following year, three climbers -- a British poet and veteran of the Great War, a young French Chamonix guide, and an idealistic young American -- find a way to take their shot at the top. They arrange funding from the grieving Lady Bromley, whose son also disappeared on Mt. Everest in 1924. Young Bromley must be dead, but his mother refuses to believe it and pays the trio to bring him home.
Deep in Tibet and high on Everest, the three climbers -- joined by the missing boy's female cousin -- find themselves being pursued through the night by someone . . . or something. This nightmare becomes a matter of life and death at 28,000 feet - but what is pursuing them? And what is the truth behind the 1924 disappearances on Everest? As they fight their way to the top of the world, the friends uncover a secret far more abominable than any mythical creature could ever be. A pulse-pounding story of adventure and suspense, The Abominable is Dan Simmons at his spine-chilling best.
- Sales Rank: #128111 in Books
- Published on: 2014-12-02
- Released on: 2014-12-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.25" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 688 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Even Jake Perry, the fictional travelogue author Dan Simmons meets in his latest novel, jokes that his reader may not make it through this endless stack of notebooks. But lovers of Simmons&'s blend of alternate history, mystery, and myth will appreciate this three-act thriller set in the interwar years. Young American alpine climber Jake is invited on a recovery mission to find Percival Bromley, a British lord who vanished on Mt. Everest. Much of the novel is devoted to the strategies and techniques of mountain climbing as it was developing in the 1920s, and Jake, his friend Jean-Claude, and team leader Deacon spend a lot of time rubbing elbows and comparing gear with real alpinists of the era. But amid the wash of detail, Simmons plants crucial facts and conjectures about early-20th-century Europe that won&'t pay off until Jake and his party are nearing the top of the world. Can murder and carnage be fully explained by the evil of men? Is a supernatural threat looming over the expedition? As usual, Simmons doesn&'t answer all the questions he&'s raised when the mysteries surrounding the loss of Percy Bromley are resolved, but his fans, like Jake, are sure to enjoy the journey. Agent: Richard Curtis, Richard Curtis Associates. (Oct.)
From Booklist
Simmons, in this thematic cousin to The Terror (2007), once more plunges into a storm of snow and ice, this time tackling no less than Everest. It’s 1924, and a trio of rogue climbers—mysterious WWI vet Deacon; emotional Frenchman Jean-Claude; and our narrator, brash young American Jacob—are hired to find the corpse of a dignitary lost on Everest. While they’re there, they go for the legendary summit. Right away, there’s a complication: a fourth team member, the dead man’s cousin—and a woman, no less! But it’s the subsequent complications that make this required reading for anyone inspired or terrified by high-altitude acrobatics: sudden avalanches, hidden crevasses, murderous temperatures, mountainside betrayals, and maybe—just maybe—a pack of bloodthirsty yeti. Though the first 200 pages of climbing background might have readers pining for the big climb, it is nearly always interesting, and, later, Simmons excels at those small but full-throated moments of terror when, for example, a single bent screw might mean death for everyone. Exhausting in all the best ways; maybe read this while it’s still warm out? --Daniel Kraus
Review
"It has taken a great American writer to tell the most extraordinary story about Everest that I have ever read."―Nives Meroi
"I am in awe of Dan Simmons."―Stephen King
"Dan Simmons is a giant among novelists."―Lincoln Child
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82 of 92 people found the following review helpful.
What happened to this book?
By Manzikert
I came to this expecting as others clearly did - and which the artwork strongly hints at - something similar to The Terror, a truly brilliant and original historical//horror novel, weaving mysticism, mythology and horror with excellently researched facts of the ill fated 1840s Franklin expedition, in a terrifyingly atmospheric tale of doomed, stranded men being picked off at will by an unseen entity amidst the desolate, frozen wastes of the unforgiving Arctic. Instead, The Abominable turns out nothiing like it; the first 400 pages are an exhaustive and frankly very tedious detailing of mountaineering techniques and methods of the 1920s as our heroes prepare for an Everest challenge to find the lost remains of a previous expedition that went missing. It's not until around p.500 that the action gets going although we are given some early hints of what the threats might be.
Without wanting to spoil the story, you find yourself thrown into a totally implausible political thriller complete with crude, comic book national stereotypes and caricatures: an insanely brave, eccentric Frenchman with silly accent; a stiff upper lip Brit; a beautiful Anglo-Indian heroine; and of course a group of ruthless and brutal pantomime Nazi villains in hot pursuit. Last of all, our insipid narrator, who's character development never gets to Base Camp, and who seems to do very little throughout the book except get sick and become incapacitated as an excuse for the writer to give us endless details of the causes and effects of altitude sickness.
In the end, we get a horribly lazy, clichéd spy thriller that revolves around Nazis set in 1924/25 and that makes the ahistorical leap of assuming everything that would happen 20 years later was already common knowledge, at a time when the Nazis were little known outside Germany, a historical license that you'd expect in a crude Hollywood historical blockbuster like U-571 or The Patriot, but not in a serious historically researched novel. Some of the unintentionally (or not?) comic peaks such as when our heroine's 'clothes fall off' Kenny Everett-style at 27,000 feet to distract Evil Nazi No.1 holding a Lugar at our heroes, and - I kid you not - machine-gun wielding Nazis dressed up as yetis. It started to remind me of Steve Martin's hilarious spoof noir film Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid [DVD] and I almost expected one of the characters to scream out "cleaning woman!" as a cue for the much anticipated, but sadly absent yetis to swing into action.
What I found most frustrating is that the Simmons of "The Terror" appears to have gone missing, or he must have left his writer's imagination at home, because there are so many missed opportunities to create something like the Terror, but instead we get a mountaineer's training manual with a comic book good vs. evil Nazis thriller tagged onto the last two hundred pages.
If he had attempted to weave some of the Buddhist/Tibetan mysticism/mythology that is hinted at, along with the Nazis' documented interest in the origins of the Aryan race from that part of the world - for which Himmler later despatched research expeditions of the 'Ahnenerbe' to locate the origins of the mythical 'aryans' - that might have provided the perfect link between the different stories and a pretext to weave some chilling paranormal/mythologic, occult and horror elements into the narrative. Instead, we're given the crudest mechanism for the whole cloak and dagger business, involving sexual deviance in the Nazi leadership. All of which makes me think either Simmons lost interest in this book early on, or left it to one of his research interns, who simply wrote up all her research, or he wasn't involved in this book at all, but was obliged to publish something to keep his publishers happy and came up with this idea in order to hoodwink those who had read the Terror. Either way, it couldn't be worse if it had been written by his reasercher, a lazy, unimaginative and tiresome disappointment that won't do Simmons' reputation much good.
Finally warning to any German readers you may find the visceral Germanophobia in the book a little hard to stomach. I don't know if it's just a cheap narrative device to pep up a barren plot or the writer's own prejudice, but it belongs to a different era and reinforces the penny-dreadful spy-novel feel of the book.
70 of 80 people found the following review helpful.
Epic Mountain Journey with a few Roadblocks and Speedbumps
By T. Edmund
In The Abominable Simmons creates an almost believable tale of a young climber Jake Perry. A gentlemen who Simmons claims to have received a manuscript of his adventures and simply 'tidied' it up a little. Of course while the physical and photographic evidence was misplaced, the story itself is intact...
And what a story.
Certainly not for the impatient or time-strapped, Abominable is an extremely slow build. More like classic literature with lengthy descriptions and gradual attachment to the characters, this book is actually pretty charming. The action picks up in Part III and doesn't let go until the slightly rambling post-climatic epilogue.
Present are Simmons' bold, beautiful an brutal prose and imagery. While I heard more about climbing than I ever wanted to know, the author has done brilliantly bringing Everest vividly to life and making the characters fallible and lifelike to the reader
My only criticism of the book is that it is simply too ambitious, between Simmons/Perry's fawning over authorly procedure and Simmons' slightly too elaborate re-write of history it just doesn't work as and attempt to pass off as real.
In summary, this book is not a quick read, and while I enjoyed the journey immensely it is easy to see a casual reading struggling to maintain interest.
42 of 50 people found the following review helpful.
Yeti or Not...
By TopCat19
Well, this is my second Dan Simmons book, after "The Terror", and I have the same reaction, a good author, a good story, but at the same time, there is something in the story that really bugs me. In this case, it is the length of the book, waaaay too long. I'm not afraid of a long novel, heck, my favorite work of fiction is the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and I love long books like Stephen King's The Stand. But so much of this seemed unnecessary. Page after page of a side trip to do a climb to do a test? So much that really didn't add anything to the story. By the end, I was wondering if maybe he was getting paid by the word, which would explain much.
SPOILER ALERT, SORT OF: This story is almost bait and-switch. From the title, the cover art, the synopsis, you are led to believe that the Yeti will play a significant role. Nope, just a cameo appearance, and even then it's just a few paragraphs, and then uncertainty as to whether it was really Yeti or not.
Sigh....
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