Well tonight I'm done with book two of the Hyperion series. So pretty much I'm picking up where the last one left off, in a way.
In the second book of this series, on the planet Hyperion the strange TIme Tomb have begun to open. And now the secrets that are contained within them could mean that nothing in the entire universe will never be the same again.
Some people tell me that this is either the better of the four in this series or is just an ok book. It is an ok book by all means. This, to me, still has that sense of experimentation that is still present. Character perspectives still change, but with a lot more frequency. And I'm also getting this sense of the surreal that's just surrounds the whole story.
There's this one thing I've notice in both the first and seconds, which is Simmon's really huge fondness for the 19th poet John Keats. Now I don't read a whole lot of poetry, except maybe the poems of Edgar Allan Poe, so I don't know really much about him other than what is referenced in both of the first two novels. Maybe other than the authors intense love for the poets and his work.
There still two other books in this series that I still haven't read yet right now, those being "Endymion" and "Rise of Endymion". I was told that they were either not very good or kind of meh or even good. But first I have to get them, and I do have them on my wish list, read them and then make up my own mind about them.
by i-the-muso-1968
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Finished Hyperion and started Fall of Hyperion but I lost steam and most likely abandoning it. I kind of got tired of the short stories after the first 3. Really only interesting ones were the priest, soldier and consul imo. A lot just had too much shit that I didn’t care about and went on for too long. Maybe I’ll pick it up at some point later.
The first book was by far the strongest of the three. Book two was okay. Three was random and kind of weird/confusing. I don’t regret reading them but it was a strange, uneven series.
The first was amazing and then the following books got worse and worse. The fourth book might just be one of the worst books I’ve ever read. Pretty sure Dan Simmons took the advance and just mailed that shit in.