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The Terror, and also Monday night TV
Nov. 13th, 2007 07:18 pmGuys, 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 ) and ( CSI:Miami )
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 ) and ( CSI:Miami )
