I first stumbled across Dan Simmons’ writing around 1990. The book was a science fiction delight called “Hyperion”. It was a science fiction epic, a Canterbury Tales for space and time travel. Since then I have frequently indulged myself in his novels. As an author he leans towards the fantastic, whether it be in science fiction or horror.
Book review: “The Abominable” by Dan Simmons
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You should probably pay your local library a visit and borrow Moby Dick whenever you have enough time and health. Whaling manual or not, it’s simply brilliant prose. Damn, it’s poetry.
It’s 19th century, so naturally there is a lot of detail everywhere that would be considered “going off on a tangent” today (it would hardly be a “successful” book in 2016 LOL). But it’s like that saying about singers who could sell a phonebook through their voice alone. Melville had that voice.
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Will do 🙂 I’ll let you know once I have 🙂