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>Canterbury Tales in space
That's it?

>> No.21211654

>>21211649
does it have to be anything else?

>> No.21211655

>>21211654
I guess not

>> No.21212392

I bought a copy of The Canterbury Tales today. It was only £4.99

>> No.21212433

>>21211649
You didn't read Canterbury Tales, did you? Cause these two have nothing in common aside from "travellers on the road share stories" premise.

>> No.21212664

>>21212433
Conversely, I read The Canterbury Tales and didn't read Hyperion.

>> No.21212759

>>21211649
yes

>> No.21214221
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21214221

Its also about jews and weird modern philosophy.

>> No.21214233

>>21211649
yeah and its overrated tripe.

>> No.21214250

>>21211649
A dude fucks an ancient murder demon made of swords and jizzes on a corpse what more do you dorks WANT

>> No.21214259

>>21214250
umm not that?

>> No.21214265

>>21214259
Whatever dude

>> No.21214281

Consul's Tale > Scholar's > Priest's > Soldier's > Poet's > Detective's

>> No.21214285
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>Huckleberry Finn in space
That's it?

>> No.21214329

>>21214285
do they say it

>> No.21214450

has nobody read the Decameron

>> No.21214455

>>21214281
Based. Consul's tale is kino. Don't even care that Hyperion gets really hammy.

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>>21211649
It's about NotInternet making people lazy.

>> No.21215359

>>21214329
Sorry, space is for whites only (and token Asians).

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>>21215359
Ah yes, the occasional token asian disposable manufacturing thrall

>> No.21215545

>>21215359
Funny you say it considering Hyperion barely has any whites in it

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>>21214221
>>21214496
i advise anyone in this thread to stop after reading the first book and just enjoy the ride. do NOT read Fall. you will be disappointed and by the end you will hate mr. simmons.

>>21214281
Priest > Consul = Scholar > Poet > Detective > Soldier

>> No.21216186

>>21216122
Objectively wrong.

Priest > scholar > poet ~= consul > soldier >>>>>>> detective

The consul was a cool character but his tory kind of sucked. Detective was a huge disappointment because a detective story in that setting should have been great but it was very bad.

>> No.21216210

>>21211649
this one pissed me off. cool setting but it was ruined by relentless fourth wall breaking references to 20th century media as well as way too much monkey shit(sex).

>> No.21216216

>>21216210
oh and I forgot, it also whined about the holocaust at one point. can't stand jews.

>> No.21216220

>>21216210
>relentless fourth wall breaking references to 20th century media
???
Name some, I genuinely have no idea what you're talking about

>> No.21216256

>>21216220
the book is riddled with references to historical events and quoted many historical authors. too many of these fell into the 19th and 20th centuries and some seemed unrealistic to be quotable by the time of the book's setting. this is what I remember feeling after reading this like a decade ago, I don't remember specifics other than the obvious presence of keats and the mein kampf reference.

>> No.21216260

>>21216256
Ok so no examples other than Keats and Hitler, famous 20th century media creators

>> No.21216261

>>21216220
There's a quite a few direct references to the Wizard of Oz throughout the series

>> No.21216274

>>21216260
there were dozens. this isn't a bible debate, it's a toilet paper book. I'm not opening it up.

>> No.21216278

>>21216274
Ok cool m8 I was just wondering why would someone who read the book a decade ago and remembers nothing it would voice his opinion on it
Apparently, the answer is seethe.

>> No.21216291

>>21216278
dan? sorry, I would have been more polite if I knew you wrote this.

>> No.21216444

>>21216122
>just enjoy the ride. do NOT read Fall. you will be disappointed and by the end you will hate mr. simmons.
Simmons is a jew isnt he?

- portrays jews as saviors and heros
- disgusting sex scenes
- flying furries who teach dumb humans about superior pacifist moral values and hippi culture
- church controls people with a cross shaped (mind) virus/parasite

>> No.21216857

>>21216256
>quoting literature
>fourth wall breaking
Oh… oh man. Oh no. Oh you’re stupid.

>> No.21216921

>>21216444
Filtered.

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>>21216186
i just didn't give a shit about kassad at all and found his character to be extremely uninteresting, thus his story the worst. although he had some cool fight scenes. i loved the consul's tale because of the themes and world building - expanding on time debt and consequences of farcasters

detective wasn't great but lamia had a personality so better than soldier. also the cyberhacking neuromancer rip-off stuff was cool. glad we're in agreement about based father dure though