The Terror, and also Monday night TV
Nov. 13th, 2007 07:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardGuys, I am currently reading The Terror by Dan Simmons and it is freaking me the fuck out. As well as freezing me to death.
It takes place in the Arctic, you see. During the voyage of the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus, which disappeared into the Arctic on a futile, futile search for the Northwest Passage.
Probably none of you have been to the Royal Wax Museum in Victoria B.C., but I go every time I'm in Victoria, and the very last display is about this very thing -- all those futile missions, all those lost men who disappeared searching for a dream -- and so the entire time I'm reading this book (and I can't stop!) I keep thinking about that display, which you can see a bit of here (scroll down). That part of the museum freaks me out more than the torture chamber, because I don't think they actually drop the temperature, but it feels like it. And it creeps me out.
This book is doing the same damn thing.
In other news, K-Ville continues to make me the happiest little duckling ever. Oh my God, so much love. I just...yeah. Yeah, that. Hi, it's like Season X, only not so long and drawn out! And I love Cobb; he's awesome and fucking kick-ass.
and I may hate the show, but I have to admit that I really loved the beginning and the end. I mean, really loved the end. On the other hand, what the hell was up with Delko, and also, Horatio Caine oh my God I never understand the man.
It takes place in the Arctic, you see. During the voyage of the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus, which disappeared into the Arctic on a futile, futile search for the Northwest Passage.
Probably none of you have been to the Royal Wax Museum in Victoria B.C., but I go every time I'm in Victoria, and the very last display is about this very thing -- all those futile missions, all those lost men who disappeared searching for a dream -- and so the entire time I'm reading this book (and I can't stop!) I keep thinking about that display, which you can see a bit of here (scroll down). That part of the museum freaks me out more than the torture chamber, because I don't think they actually drop the temperature, but it feels like it. And it creeps me out.
This book is doing the same damn thing.
In other news, K-Ville continues to make me the happiest little duckling ever. Oh my God, so much love. I just...yeah. Yeah, that. Hi, it's like Season X, only not so long and drawn out! And I love Cobb; he's awesome and fucking kick-ass.
and I may hate the show, but I have to admit that I really loved the beginning and the end. I mean, really loved the end. On the other hand, what the hell was up with Delko, and also, Horatio Caine oh my God I never understand the man.