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Originally posted by Jeorge:
I couldn't even bring myself to go see "The Dark Is Rising"

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Posted by Wonder Dog (Member # 5691) on :
 
Cannot wait to see the Shrike, or Col. Kassad's battles with the Ousters. SO Freakin' AWESOME!

(Like the rest of you, I too hope they don't screw it up.)
 

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Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :
 
I'm not sure you can fit that whole book into 1 movie. They should make it into two.

Dude, if they do this right...Yeah, I'll pay the admission fee. Shoot, I'll probably buy the DVD.

The exchanges between Brawne Lamia and Martin Silenus are teh funny. That would be awesome, if they found the right actors.
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 

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Originally posted by Jeorge:
I couldn't even bring myself to go see "The Dark Is Rising"

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Did they even end up calling it The Dark is Rising?
 

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Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
 
Most of the ads called it The Seeker: The Dark is Rising. I think the DVD is titled just The Seeker.
 

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Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
 
I guess it's good that I ordered the books from Amazon a week ago. I'll certainly read them by the time the movie comes out. I've read 'Ilium' and 'Olympos' by him, if the 'Hyperion' series is as good I look forward to reading it!
 

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Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
 
I loved Ilium but man, he loves to end with half the issues unresolved. I heard that Olympos is a big let down. True?
 

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Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
 
Depends on what you expect. There were so many things in Ilium that were so totally unexplainable that any explanation would probably step on somebody's toes. He did tie things up in 'Olympos', I guess it really will be a matter of taste if you like it or not. For me it was below 'Ilium' but a worthy conclusion nonetheless.
 

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Posted by Occasional (Member # 5860) on :
 
I read the first book and although it held some interest, in the end I just didn't understand the popularity. It seemed a sci-fi slasher monster story with a few twists to make it seem more intelligent.
 

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Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
 
Slasher as in "gory-violence"? I don't see it... :puzzled:

Edit: Or did you mean the first one from the Hyperion series?
 

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Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
 
I was pretty disappointed by Olympos. Ilium was one of the most intelligent, engaging, audacious novels I've read, but Olympos...it was just a book. It wasn't bad, but it didn't have its prececessor's brilliance.

That said, I'm still glad I read it, just to see how he resolved all of the various plotlines. I plan to reread both books, but I'd like to get more familiar with Proust before I do. I'm intimately familiar with The Iliad, and I've read The Tempest, but I know next to nothing about Proust, and I felt like there was probably some fantastic stuff that I was missing as a result of that.
 

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Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
 
I know the feeling, I'm not very familiar with either of those. Ok, I know a bit about the 'Iliad', but not enough to claim any degree of familiarity. 'Ilium' is actually the book that made me want to read all those you mentioned.
 

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Posted by Occasional (Member # 5860) on :
 
The first one Corwin. It had some good ideas that just didn't go very far. The main focus of the book and some of the character developments made me less interested in reading the others.
 

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Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
 
This from someone who thinks Star Trek: Voyager is brilliant.
 

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Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
 

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Originally posted by Occasional:
The first one Corwin. It had some good ideas that just didn't go very far. The main focus of the book and some of the character developments made me less interested in reading the others.

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There is only one more, 'Olympos'. But yeah, 'Ilium' is more of a 'first part' than a book on its own. The ideas went far enough for me in the second book though.
 

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Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
 
Olympos, to me, reads like he got halfway through it, realized he couldn't finish up it up with another 300 pages (and/or didn't want to, because he'd had too many new ideas). So he improvised his way to a sort-of ending that sort-of resolved a lot of things without completely explaining them, and without killing off most of the characters, so as to leave things open for another book or two.

The improvised feeling this gives the book is kinda interesting for a while, because it's going against Simmons' usual pacing for epics, and so I couldn't figure out what the hell was going to happen next. But ultimately it made the ending more of a let-down, because there were too many loose ends and unexplained motives.
 

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Posted by Occasional (Member # 5860) on :
 
Who are you talking about PC, me? When did I ever say it was brilliant, or even mention it in the first place? If you want my idea of brilliant I will have to go with "2001" or OSC's "Speaker for the Dead" or "Dune" or "The Mote in God's Eye" if you want to know what I read more than once or twice.

If you weren't talking about me, then fine.

P.S. I thought there was three books in the Hyperion series, but I guess I was wrong?
 

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Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
 
He was probably confusing your username with Orincoro's.
 

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Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
 

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Originally posted by Occasional:

P.S. I thought there was three books in the Hyperion series, but I guess I was wrong?

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Ok, misunderstanding there: when you said "first one" I thought you meant first option I gave you, which meant "Ilium". The "Hyperion" series has 4 novels. Which I haven't yet read.
 

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Posted by Dr Strangelove (Member # 8331) on :
 
I just ordered the whole (Hyperion) series off Amazon. I've read them before and I still hold that "Rise of Endymion" is conceivably the best sci-fi book ever written. I know, I know, OSC is amazing, but something about that book ... It was simply out of this world (pun intended).

That said, I'm not sure how they will do a satisfactory job of adapting the first two into one movie. I will definitely go see it, but it's kind of mind boggling to think of all of the stories in "Hyperion" fitting into half of a movie, and really hard for me to think which stories they'll cut.
 

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Posted by neo-dragon (Member # 7168) on :
 
This is the next best thing to the Ender's Game movie finally being released.
 

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Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
 

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Originally posted by Corwin:
He was probably confusing your username with Orincoro's.

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