/lit/ - Literature

>Ah, I finished another short chapter with interesting conversation between the Space-Catholics.
>Another Raul chapter? Yes, my favorite protagonist everybody loves.
Proceeds to write 20 pages of meaningless description of a forgettable planet that has no impact on the story.

I hate Dan Simmons so much it's unreal.

>*ruins your day*
Nothing personnel... kid.

Wow, the sky really is blue isn't it?
>Lapis lazuli
Huh?
>It's Lapis Lazuli, the sky.
Okay, weird. Any other weird colours you may think of?
>Lapis lazuli, also Vermillion dunes
Ah, so the dune is red.
>And the sky is lapis
Say it one more time Mr. Simmons!
>Lapis lazuli
One more time, I swear, I don't know what colour the sky of Hyperion is.
>Lapis lazuli
Okay, but can you please describe the surroundings, a luke-warm, half-page paragraph will do.
>Sure thing, but I will do this for every chapter at least twice.

Don't get me wrong, I like Hyperion. It's just that some things bug me about the writing. I feel I lose nothing by skipping dreary landscape-painting-esque descriptions which repeat what we already know.