Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | The Abominable |
| author | Dan Simmons |
| ISBN-10 | 0-751-54870-7 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-751-54870-9 |
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| date | 2016-Sep-28 |
The story of Jake Perry and his friends, all three of them avid and experienced climbers, how it happens they attempt to summit Mt. Everest in 1925 and what happens on that mountain, this story is not bad. Towards the end it also has some unexpected turn. But the explanations, the details, the descriptions, all that is quite long. I was dragging through the first half of this more than 700 pages long tome considering more than once to just toss it away. Then the second half was more interesting, though still dragging on enough, and I did finish reading it.
If you are a climber yourself, I can imagine you might enjoy the lengthy details, but otherwise there definitely are more interesting books.
