Have any of you guys read Hyperion by Dan Simmons? Like / dislike?
Posted by TheShrike (Member # 8315) on :
Loved it, and Fall.
Posted by tern (Member # 7429) on :
Just finished all four, brilliant, brilliant. Have to get Olympos now.
Posted by Ramdac99 (Member # 7264) on :
yeah, I just finished Fall.....I have the other two but I don't know if i want to rush into it, got a lot to read.
Posted by Occasional (Member # 5860) on :
I liked it to a point. The story got my attention, but it lost my interest at the end. Too bloody, too sexy, and too pointless for me. I would not read it again, and certainly wouldn't go on reading the others.
Posted by Oliver Dale (Member # 8398) on :
I really liked it.. but it was not at all what I was expecting going into it. Haven't gotten around to the sequels.
Posted by Wonder Dog (Member # 5691) on :
Liked it, but also found some of his characters... lacking. I don't think he writes women well, except maybe for Pres. Galdstone.
Posted by Wonder Dog (Member # 5691) on :
Also: Disliked it when he changed the meanings and explinations of past events to fit new plot lines. Sloppy.
On the plus: Love everything and anything to do with the Ousters, the Pax (Endymion), the Templars and Force:space (or whatever you call it...)
Posted by Ramdac99 (Member # 7264) on :
quote:Originally posted by Occasional: I would not read it again, and certainly wouldn't go on reading the others.
If you didn't read Fall you missed a lot.
Posted by WntrMute (Member # 7556) on :
I liked Hyperion better the first time when it was called Canterbury Tales.
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
The story was fairly interesting, but the writing was so over the top that I couldn't take it seriously. I read Hyperion and most of Fall of Hyperion before it had to go back to the library. I happen to own the two Endymion books, but based on the first two I don't intend to read them.
I did like Hyperion a lot when I was thirteen, though.