Reddit reviews The Terror: A Novel

If you're a reader, check out The Terror by Dan Simmons

I highly recommend The Terror.

Theres a supernatural element to it but it's a fantastic read. AMC bought the rights to it last year but they haven't haven't ordered it to series unfortunately.

It's a different ship, but I found Dan Simmons' The Terror to be a good read (though the whole Masque of the Red Death play in the middle was a tad unbelievable...)

While I have not read it myself, The Terror seems like it might be a good beach read.
Also you can try Creature which I read when it was titled White Shark. Good read if you are into amphibious Nazi-created killing machines.

Historical fiction one for you to try - Dan Simmons' The Terror -

"The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the Terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear there is no escape. A haunting, gripping story based on actual historical events, The Terror is a novel that will chill you to your core."

Well . . . if you're looking at a book simply as a collection of text, I too have never feared a line of text. What books allow, is a slow building of fear that require quite a bit of character development. I don't read horror novels waiting to be frightened, and truthfully read very little horror. The fear just happens. To be honest, it's a different type of fear - more of an uneasy feeling really. Certainly, a book can't have, what my son calls, "The scary jump out scenes". But if we exchange the term fear with edgy, here are a list of my favorite books with an "Edge":

[The Passage] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Passage-Novel-Book-Trilogy/dp/0345528174)
[The Terror] (http://www.amazon.com/Terror-Novel-Dan-Simmons/dp/0316008079/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404481514&sr=1-1&keywords=terror)
The Stand
Carrion Comfort
Desperation
I am Legend
The Sparrow
Night
Frankenstein
All Quite on the Western Front
Hunger
Blood Meridian
Watchers
The Minus Man

In no particular order - Not the usual suggestions either. Hope it helps, and happy reading!

The Terror by Dan Simmons is recommend on here a lot. Exactly what you said. People stuck on a ship with something haunting them.

http://www.amazon.com/Terror-Novel-Dan-Simmons/dp/0316008079/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370636500&sr=1-1&keywords=the+terror+dan+simmons

The Terror by Dan Simmons.

It might have a lot of white space...but I think it could turn out pretty good with the right artist.

Try The Terror by Dan Simmons.

If anyone wants to read more about the HMS Terror, I have a great book for you: The Terror by Dan Simmons, frickin fantastic novel.

Not quite a pirate ship, but check out The Terror.

>the Terror

I was not expecting this show to be as amazing as it is, and I read the book. The casting, writing, and cinematography have blown me away so far; granted we are only two episodes in so far. I'm very excited about where this is going, the tension and atmosphere alone would make Hitchcock jealous. Hope anyone reading this is enjoying it as much as I am; if you haven't heard of it yet, the book is also very much worth checking out as well!


>There's also Mute, the City and the City

Haven't heard of these, I'll check them out now. Thanks for the recommendation, kind internet stranger!

Andrew knows nothing about Star Trek. so Greg explains the most exciting and interesting parts to him - politics and economics.
-Is it weird that the government space “scientists” have torpedos and lasers and ranks like “Admiral” and “Lieutenant”?
-Is it weird that even though it’s supposed to be a multi-species, multi-cultural utopia, all the leadership positions are held by humans, and mostly white dude humans?
-What if Call of Duty culture was a planet?
-Thought Experiment of The Week: Donald Trump in a Post-Scarcity Economy. We recorded this before he was your kleptarch-elect.
-Utopia Bottlenecks
-Universal Basic Income makes things more like Star Trek. Tell your local representatives.
-The human spirit of adventure! (as an insidious government plot!)
-A really weird coincidence suggests dark forces haunting your hosts!

Trigger warnings: Rape, Abortion


Recommendations:

Dillinger Escape Plan: Dissociation

Dan Simmons: The Terror

Dan Simmons: Hyperion

Star Trek: The Next Generation S2E1 "The Child"

Star Trek: The Next Generation S2E9 "Measure of a Man"
(The entire Star Trek franchise is available on Netflix)

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