Pain is the curl and foam of a wave that does not break.So, I'm writing this review around three full months after reading The Fall of Hyperion, and I'm still not really sure what to say about it. Did I enjoy it? Absolutely. Did I think it was as good as Hyperion? Absolutely not. But then, in t...
Pain is the curl and foam of a wave that does not break.So, I'm writing this review around three full months after reading The Fall of Hyperion, and I'm still not really sure what to say about it. Did I enjoy it? Absolutely. Did I think it was as good as Hyperion? Absolutely not. But then, in t...
so: at some point it may have gotten a bit too... supernatural? for my tastes. and I almost got lost (or maybe I did get lost) with some of the plot twists and who-did-what-and-when... but: Simmons has AMAZING imagination to pull this off! definitely a sci-fi masterpiece!
Nutshell: how-to manual that recommends radical luddite social restructuring in order to defeat slave uprising.Abandons chaucerian structure of first installment and instead alternates between first-person and third person bits. Opening places narration at center of setting (barf) by popping first ...
Not quite as good as its predecessor Hyperion, but still a pretty spectacular read. A little top heavy with excessive and unnecessary theo-babble. There is also still an over-reliance among the characters on what would have been long forgotten 20th century cultural references.
The trouble with reading a book like The Fall of Hyperion is that whatever book I read next will likely seem like a load of ol' crap. In fact, in a Shrike-like manner this book traveled back in time and slashed my opinion of the book I read prior to this one which now looks shabby by comparison.The ...
Like in the first book in this series, my favorite parts related to the socioeconomic and political consequences of relativity, including instant travel (or lack thereof) as well as their implications within Hegemony, TechnoCore, and Ouster societies and cultures. I never really latched onto or conn...
Where to start? This book brought the fascinating story begun in Hyperion to a close and set the pieces for the next two books. It kept me reading with suspense, intrigue and poetry. I enjoyed everything in this book and simply reading such a well-crafted prose was a pleasure for my brain.After fini...
Four stars, but still fantastic. I think you'll see that the gripes I have are pretty minor and would probably have been alleviated by some time in between reading the first and second book rather than reading them back-to-back as I did.Simmons has got a lot of really great things going for him in t...
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