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Anonymous Sat Jul 10 11:08:35 2010 No.894902 [Reply] [Original]

What does /lit/ think of Hyperion?

It was recommended to me by a friend.

Worth buying? Or should I just take it out at the library when I get home next month?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 10 11:11:35 2010 No.894909 bump

>>	Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI Sat Jul 10 11:16:35 2010 No.894921 First is awesome but gives you a non-ending. Second is okay, no way near as great as the first. Didn't want to read any of the others in the series after that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 10 11:19:35 2010 No.894926 One of the best sci-fi books ever written. I'm not as harsh as >>894921, while the rest of the Hyperion Cantos are not as good it is still an amazing series.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 10 11:33:35 2010 No.894951 I got a copy for 10 cents at a used book sale and found that the inside cover was signed by Dan Simmons. Only problem is that it was made out to someone named Tom.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 10 11:42:35 2010 No.894966 >>894921 Really? The only book I felt was lacking was Rise of Endymion. The first I found excellent and overall the series in one of my favorite sci-fi series. The first two were pretty god tier, in my opinion.

>>	Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI Sat Jul 10 11:45:35 2010 No.894969 >>894966 FoH wasn't bad, but it didn't blow me away like the first novel did. I got really excited about the Shrike and the Time Tombs stuff and by the end of Fall I was a little like, "Oh, was that it?"

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 10 11:50:35 2010 No.894976 >>894951 I know right!? Fuck people named Tom!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 10 11:54:35 2010 No.894983 File: 29 KB, 394x600, 313548.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] like this better

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 10 11:55:35 2010 No.894985 >>894983 You're better!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 10 12:25:35 2010 No.895056 >>894983 I didn't like it, his worst work (that I've read)

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 10 13:01:35 2010 No.895111 >>894902 Good once you get past the large amount of made up words.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 10 13:10:35 2010 No.895124 >>894983 >>895056 I found it at a goodwill for 1.50 and now I'm afraid to read it!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 10 13:12:35 2010 No.895132 i wish he wouldn't talk so much shit about poetry, it was p. fucking boring because of that.

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