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2351522 No.2351522 [Reply] [Original]

Half way through this book. What does /lit/ think of it? Thoroughly enjoying it thus far.

Any similar recommendations?

>> No.2351531

I really like this book but it ended so abruptly, and i don't know if I'm going to read the next book.
I liked every-bodies individual stories.

>> No.2351552

Not literature

>> No.2351558

Hope you've already got a copy of Fall of Hyperion, bro.

>> No.2351561

>>2351552

It's on a fucking epic poem by John Keats. Go away.

>> No.2351585

>>2351522
The sequels are even better.

Fucking god-tier

>> No.2351603

I enjoyed Hyperion but I couldn't get into the sequel, hope this helps.

>> No.2351642

I loved it, but I couldn't bring myself to read the sequel(s). I loved the Canterbury Tales style of storytelling and I actually didn't mind the way it ended. I've always regretted watching the second two Matrix movies and I've always been too scared to ruin Hyperion the same way.

>> No.2351653

>>2351642
>>2351603
I swear the sequel is even better than the first book.

Man up pussies

>> No.2351662

>>2351653
Nah. I tried reading them a long, long time ago, but I remember it sort of felt like Shrike fanfiction. Anyway, I liked the framing narrative of the first one and the sequel was just too bland.

>> No.2351741

>>2351662
I second this. Absolutely loved every minute of the first, couldn't get into the next. It's on a shelf somewhere with a bookmark in it, maybe I'll get back to it eventually...

>> No.2351757

Priest's story was by far the best.

>> No.2351771

>>2351522
Get ready for MASSIVE disappointment when the "asnwers" start coming in.

future space jesus hiding in subspace or something did everything

>> No.2351805

Fall of Hyperion was thoroughly enjoyable, though not on the same caliber as Hyperion.
Loved the concepts and the cyberpunk-qualities and stuff, but missed the Canterbury structure of the first one and hoped that Fall would have had some kind of interesting plot structure as well.

>> No.2352742

>>2351757

It was pretty good. Probably the second best behind the Poet's Tale IMO. The Soldier's Tale is the worst.

>> No.2352757

it was godawful bullshit