Ascension features some excellent character creations and these are brought to life by Harry's descriptions and impressions regarding personalities and motives. Llena de suspense pero también profundamente contemplativa, nos hace pensar y nos invita a adentrarnos en lo sobrenatural.

Cuando lees Dagón de adolescente su desarrollo y final te estremecen, cuando vuelves años después el cuento te produce ternura: qué hace ese narrador psicótico, acechado, según el, por criaturas anfibias que desafían nuestra comprensión, escribiendo cómo está siendo acosado por dichas abominaciones en vez de salir por patas. The main character does struggle with this at times as he is a former doctor turned physicist but was also raised in a household where religion was an everyday part of life. The records of the expedition are in the form of letters, a device which didn't add to the story in any meaningful way. Also side note, as an anthropology major I was happy to see an anthropologist character but why does media always gotta make the anthropologist creepy lol. Como todos los personajes que son lumbreras absolutas, tienen que tener un ligero componente autista (porque Una mente maravillosa ha hecho mucho daño), componente que, como ocurre con su inteligencia, explicita constantemente el narrador y el resto de personajes, pero que nunca detectas en sus interacciones con el resto de personajes, ni en sus cadenas de razonamientos, ni en sus reflexiones ni en su forma de redactar.These past events are normally revealed to coincide with an update that occurs on the mountain and feature knowledge-nuggets that enhanced the main story timeline. If that alone wasn't engrossing enough, there is a heart wrenching side story of love and loss told via the reflections of the main character as he goes over the events of his life leading up to that point. Entre todo el género de carnaza destacaré al escalador australiano, veterano de guerra retirado, escalador avezado y gilipollas profesional, que ves comportándose desde el minuto uno como un ídem pero no como una persona arrogante, pese a que todo el mundo solo señala este rasgo secundario de su carácter como el más llamativo del mismo (quizá la novela intenta comunicarse sutilmente con nosotros, quién sabe. Okay, this rant has gone on for too long considering I DNF’d at 17%, but I’ll leave you with this bonus dumb: main character meets an old colleague of his who has mysteriously turned into a clairvoyant robot.

Some sections of Ascension are science-heavy, relating to and referencing many theories that are far too advanced for my understanding. There were certainly some really tense, creepy moments and more than a few that sent a shiver down my spine. An expedition-team, made up of mostly scientists from different fields, is gathered for a daring mission to scale the mountain and uncover its secrets.

The man at the desk reached forward to open his briefcase, and I noted his long, spindly fingers, like the legs of a spider. Aún así, a medida que aumentan los peligros, el misterio de la montaña los obliga a llegar a su cima, donde están seguros de que encontrarán sus respuestas. Binge has written a profound and elegiac story that examines science, faith and the concept of humanity itself - what it means to live and die, to yearn and strive, and all the spaces in between. Nicholas Binge is a bestselling author of speculative thrillers, literary science-fiction, and horror. At times the book felt videogame like, and many characters seem a bit cardboard like, but still this was an enjoyable book which raises interesting questions and themes.

Why I should’ve abandoned ship by the second chapter: I know some people explicitly like it, but in my opinion the epistolary format simply does not work in 90% of cases. De más esta decir que el componente lovecraftiano esta enteramente limitado a los acontecimientos en la montaña, pero no quiero dar muchos detalles al respecto ya que les arruinaría el libro. Years later, his brother finds a collection of journals and unsent letters he composed, chronicling the events on the mountain as they unfolded. So, you've got a phenomenon that you can't talk about, in a place you can't tell me, working for people I'm not even allowed to know the names of. None of this ever happened, of course—I never really strayed far from the rules—but I knew enough to know my lines.No voy a entrar en ella, pero digamos que esa "conmovedora" historia de amor la has visto mil veces si tus padres duermen la siesta con la película alemana del domingo por la tarde de fondo. Harold is coaxed along by the scientific enigma and a personal one: Waiting on the giant rock is his ex-wife, Dr. I already mentioned the "campy twist" above, but I really feel the need to emphasise how much this made me cringe. Ben finds him in a psychiatric hospital where he has been since he disappeared but, he is changed and is not making sense.

Ascension was one of my most anticipated speculative/sci-fi releases of 2023, because of its intriguing concept, as well as comparisons to books like Annihilation and Thin Air: A Ghost Story. The prose is utterly captivating and descriptive, making events ride in on an atmospheric fog that turns into a full blown blizzard towards the ending. It's never seemed appropriate—for all our trips together, my faith has always been a very personal thing, just as your father's pragmatic atheism has always been for him. Some of these scenes are so powerfully moving that they impacted me just as much as the mystery of the mountain did, but in a more personal and emotional way.I was in two minds about their storyline, their circumstances and their past are poignant enough but sometimes over-egged in ways that strained my credibility. Second, just like in its titular twin In Ascension, the main character is a complete and total bore. High-intensity adventurer Bettan and military affiliate The Warden are great supporting characters, as is the scientist Naoko, whose path with Harry has crossed prior to them being reacquainted on the mountain.