I am planning to read the Fall of Hyperion soon, I just finished Hyperion last night. I really enjoyed this review, I like your point that this book is really about the journey. If the story ended here, I feel like the shrike is just a McGuffin. There is so much in this first book, I think there could be a college lecture series based on it alone.
the whole Hyperion Cantos is completely insane, and yet as the whole thing come full circle, you'll be left with your jaw on the floor. For their age these books present us with such incredibly deep storylines that it blows my mind.
I loved Hyperion. The story format is just incredible, the Priest's and Scholar's tales will stick with me for a long time. Great video Jimmy, I can't wait to hear what you think of Fall of Hyperion, the rest of the series, and more amazing sci-fi!
I just finished reading Hyperion and I agree, I can not stop thinking about the stories of the Priest and Scholar. I loved the world building of Hyperion that you get from the Priest's chapter.
Scholar's tale blew me away back in the early 90s - I remembered there were really personal moments in that part, and I thought, it was just theoretical/fictional , but instructive. Fast forward 12 years and I'm sitting in a hospital, about to be told my 2 year old daughter is dead in an accident. (sorry for the downer ) and one of my thoughts is "Holy shit, I'm stuck in a shitty situation like Sol Weintraub, and this is real" The courage of the character to push on when all hope was lost - that helped...A lot. Its sci fi but i don't think anybody has captured the tragedy of the death of a child better. Having read Hyperion actually made me a better, more resilient person. Almost 20 years later - perfect.
I am so so sorry you had to go through that. The literature that can speak to us in our best and worst moments is literature that will always stand the test of time. I hope you're well and, again, I'm so sorry you experienced that.
Great review. This book along with Fall of Hyperion, was the reading experience that inspired me to start a Booktube Channel. The priests tale along with the reveals in Fall of Hyperion was haunting and awesome .
Great review! I'll be interested to hear your thoughts on the series. I love the Hyperion universe, and enjoyed each book in the Cantos for different reasons.
I'm reading Hyperion now. And, while I'm only about 20% into if, I really am liking it. It's different from most SF that I've read. Different in a very good sense. And, as such, I appreciate any review of whatever book I'm reading that is without spoilers. Get back when I finish.
Very good review. I really enjoyed all four books in the series. I like books that deal with philosophical, social, and psychological topics that relate to our humanity and social structures. Since you found some of the philosophical/religious issues raised in the priest's tale the most interesting and thought provocative, I think you will really enjoy the subsequent books, particularly books 3 and 4. They go much further into the impact and consequences of these ideas and events.
When I saw that Jimmy putting up a review of one of my favorite books of all time, I had to double check today's date. This man almost had me believing that it was already Christmas :3
My favourite book. Priest's tale is the most terrifying thing I've ever read. You forgot to mention the last tale, Council's tale, it's great. Even detective's tale is really memorable for it's beautiful love story.
Although I still haven't read Hyperion (plan on doing it soon), but since you enjoyed it this much, I think you should read The Terror. It is a horror novel based on a real life arctic expedition. It's also written by Dan Simmons, and must be one of my favorite books of all time.
This past year I've been using the Hugo award winners and nominees as a jumping off point for expanding my sci fi taste and you've made me excited to get to this one! I definitely think I'll find something to appreciate about it even if it doesn't end up a favorite.
1/2 are among my favorites of al time. Significant drop off with 3/4 for me. Scholar’s tale by itself would be top 5 short story for me. Definitely curious for your take on book 2. For staples, would love to see you read Asimov’s Robots or anything by Clarke.
Finished it last night. Hoyt, Sol and Silenus are fighting it out for my favourite story but I also loved Lamia's story, it felt like I was reading Richard Morgan's Takashi Kovacs books. My least favourite was Kassed but that's cuz of the main characters he's the least fleshed out. I liked his story though, what an ending to that one! Dunno if it's my Favourite Sci-Fi book of all-time, maybe Top 5 but I definitely loved it more than Dune. Loved the framing device, which helps me a lot with getting through short stories which I generally don't gravitate towards, tho I've a much easier time with Sci-Fi Horror and Literary short stories than Fantasy for some reason.
I read this book when I was like 13 or 14 and loved the hell out of it. I've always been into darker fiction since I first learned to read, and this one has some weird stuff going on. Granted, at that age, so much went over my head. I was just in it for the Shrike on the cover. I imagine reading it as an adult would be even better
@@thefantasynuttwork its dependent on Allen and Evie, we don’t have a set month yet but I plan to pick it up once their tbrs let them. My guess is we would discuss it in January with the holidays
Great review Jimmy! The Hyperion duology is my second favorite sci-fi of all time. The detective story was my least favorite as well. Saul’s story had me racked with tears. Being a parent makes it so much more excruciating to read lol. I thought the ending was good by itself, but the story definitely isn’t complete without Fall of Hyperion.
I’ve read Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion and loved them. I haven’t spoken to anybody about the books but my guess as to why some people love prefer one over the might be the fact that Hyperion focuses on this one group of characters while Fall of Hyperion does a lot more world building and plot.
Guilty of overcome ting on this post, but wanted to throw some great scifi read recs on here too... Left Hand of Darkness (LeGuin) Martian Chronicles (Bradbury) Foundation (Asimov) Shadow of the Torturer (Wolfe) Cryptonomicon (Stephenson) Fall of Hyperion ( really is part two of the story ) Speaker for the Dead (Card -- sequel to Enders Game) Death's End (Cixin Liu...its the 3rd in the Remembrance of Earths Past trilogy...sorry ha) Spin (Wilson)
I'm a little late for the party - ok, a lot - but I finished reading Dan Simmons's Hyperion "yesterday" and my verdict in one word: BRILLIANT! I loved it! 🙏😍 I really like the seven(7) stories, but my favorite is probably the first one, Father Hoyt, which was awesome! The one with Sol Weintraub and his daughter Rachel was great. Like you, Brawne Lamia story - which is still quite good - is my least favorite story. 😏
Great review, great book(s). I became trapped in the four songs, was unable to escape for three weeks. I am barely back now. I appreciated your comments on writing style and language, which suprising to me, few reviewers do. As an illustration of Simmons' ability, I rather randomly picked a "long" sentence, I think from the fourth Canto: 93 words, perfect grammar, perfect punctuation, coherent but at the edge of one's ability to conceptualize. Build one sometime. :>) 5 Stars.
This book was slightly disappointing to me after all the hype, but the rest of the series was some of my favorite reading ever! Book two (no spoilers!) continues the 'present day' story and becomes a lot more of a classic large scale science fiction structure in the best way! As a whole series and work, I think it's up there with the greats.
I also really liked Kassads story. I get why the preusts tal and Sols story are the two I hear most praise for, but I also think, even if folks didn't love the poet, Kassad, or Lamia, the story would have a huge hole without any of them.
I look forward to reading it but I'm finishing up some other Sci-Fi series first; Dune Saga, Takashi Kovacs trilogy and the Hitchhiker's Guide. I'm trying not to repeat the same mistake I did with juggling multiple Fantasy series. I'm on the final books of Dune and Takashi Kovacs right now so Hyperion might happen sooner rather than later. Or Neuromancer. I dunno 🤣
Great titles there. I usually have two or three books going, but if I can interject and suggest that for both Hyperion and Neuromancer, is ...read them alone without other books going at the same time. Hyperion and Neuromancer are both great and unique reading experiences
Olympus/Ilium are great. I have very fond memories of those. The Terror is one of the most interesting and scary books I have read. Besides Hyperion, this is probably the one I would recommend for someone not familiar with Simmons work.
I definitely have unpopular options on this book. A lot of things not explained and glossed over. Breaks his own rules once or twice. Tries too hard with changing narratives a few times. I think i loved the idea and had potential but had a lot of misses for me. BUT think the next book will be better suited for me, which seems to be the opposite to those who loved book 1.
I'm glad that you liked it.Hyperion is one of the best books I've read this year. My favourite was The Scholar's tale,the idea of ageing backwards was awesome also the emotions I felt during this tale,flawless.Very close behind is The Priest's Tale,also very good,remembered me of Dune. The Fall of Hyperion I enjoyed it but not as much as the first book,gave it four stars.Endymion was most of the time boring (for me)-three stars and The Rise of Endymion I quite liked-four stars.
When i first read this book i got to the poets story and was not really liking it so i gave up on it. A year or so later for some reason i decided to give it another go and loved it. The detective story was my favorite.
I must agree about Dan Simmons. Hyperion is my all time favourite book. I wanted to read more of his books. I read Carrion comfort and Summer of night and they were awful.
Great review nd great book. the second one is almost as good, and I relly liked both the ending. My suggestion for your next sci-fi are "Caves of steel" and/or "Naked sun" by Asimoiv or "Farenheit 451 by Bradbury" for the classics. "The gone-away world" by Nick Harkaway for something more recent. Beside this, my compliments
Good timing, just announced that Bradley Cooper will be adapting this to a movie...I guess the studios want in on the sci fi train after the success of Dune :)
@@thefantasynuttwork Apparently he's been working on it for a long time and his a big fan. I just happened to pick the book up yesterday purely cause I loved the cover. After your review, I think I'll be reading it next :)
I've been hearing so many amazing things about hyperion but I'm a bit hesitant since my last sci-fi read was dune and despite high praise and it's legendary status i really didn't enjoy it... How would you compare these two, Jimmy?
I liked Kasad and Lamias stories the most. Honestly hoyts story was sortu depressing but everyone loves his story. And I hate how hyperion looks in my mind. The green streaks or tinge in the sky really really throws me off. The idea that things look more saturated from a distance or upclose and or outfocus or whatever. Idk why the green sky thing bothers me so much but it really really does. It really messed with my brain. Green streaks or a green tinge at night is really cool. But during day light? Also EVERY sky is Lapis Lazuli (lapis with green for Hyperion) except the one lemon yellow sky planet I HATED how he described hyperion. I hate how unclear his descriptions of things are evdn important stuff like time tombs. He is descriptive, but his descriptions never make sense and ard often confusing I hate how he seems to be using a thesaurus while writing. I hate how uninventive his names for pretty inventive concepts are. "The all thing" etc and really dumb words like "derigibles". I thought the prose was mediocre. But ultimately it had a pretty decent plot. And the second book makes it a lot more interesting so far (I'm only like 30%in)
If the reader can wrap his/her head around the fact that it isn't a novel, but really a short story collection centered around a common theme, he will embrace this book.
I’m generally not into the more classic side of sci-fi even though I love a lot of modern stuff, but the more I hear about Hyperion the more I think I might enjoy it. I’m still not sure if I will read it, but I keep hearing about it and I keep thinking 🤔
Overall I was lukewarm on Hyperion. Like others, it felt more like a short story bind up, with parts being way stronger than the whole. I respect it though. It's definitely interesting. More than a gimmick, but it does rely on it an awful lot.
These books are not at all what I expected. I was told they were great science fiction books... but someone lied. Pieces of the story are incredible, the rest is horny 80s Heavy Metal comics set to paper. I must have missed the cutoff date for this kind of fantasy to be appealing
What next big sci-fi staple should I read?
The Culture novels! Use of Weapons (#3) is one of the best books I've ever read.
@@kaizacorp going on my tbr then!
Book of the New Sun or Sun Eater.
@@Severian1 hell yes to both
Not a staple yet, but The Sun Eater
I am planning to read the Fall of Hyperion soon, I just finished Hyperion last night. I really enjoyed this review, I like your point that this book is really about the journey. If the story ended here, I feel like the shrike is just a McGuffin. There is so much in this first book, I think there could be a college lecture series based on it alone.
It’s so good!
the whole Hyperion Cantos is completely insane, and yet as the whole thing come full circle, you'll be left with your jaw on the floor. For their age these books present us with such incredibly deep storylines that it blows my mind.
I’ll be excited to check out the rest!
I loved Hyperion. The story format is just incredible, the Priest's and Scholar's tales will stick with me for a long time. Great video Jimmy, I can't wait to hear what you think of Fall of Hyperion, the rest of the series, and more amazing sci-fi!
Thanks Kai, I'm pumped for more of the Hyperion Cantos!
I just finished reading Hyperion and I agree, I can not stop thinking about the stories of the Priest and Scholar. I loved the world building of Hyperion that you get from the Priest's chapter.
The only time I've cried reading a book was during Sol Weintraub's stories.
Scholar's tale blew me away back in the early 90s - I remembered there were really personal moments in that part, and I thought, it was just theoretical/fictional , but instructive. Fast forward 12 years and I'm sitting in a hospital, about to be told my 2 year old daughter is dead in an accident. (sorry for the downer ) and one of my thoughts is "Holy shit, I'm stuck in a shitty situation like Sol Weintraub, and this is real" The courage of the character to push on when all hope was lost - that helped...A lot. Its sci fi but i don't think anybody has captured the tragedy of the death of a child better. Having read Hyperion actually made me a better, more resilient person. Almost 20 years later - perfect.
I am so so sorry you had to go through that. The literature that can speak to us in our best and worst moments is literature that will always stand the test of time. I hope you're well and, again, I'm so sorry you experienced that.
Great review. This book along with Fall of Hyperion, was the reading experience that inspired me to start a Booktube Channel. The priests tale along with the reveals in Fall of Hyperion was haunting and awesome .
Oh man that has me so psyched for book 2!
Great review! I'll be interested to hear your thoughts on the series. I love the Hyperion universe, and enjoyed each book in the Cantos for different reasons.
Thanks! I'm excited to continue
I'm reading Hyperion now. And, while I'm only about 20% into if, I really am liking it. It's different from most SF that I've read. Different in a very good sense. And, as such, I appreciate any review of whatever book I'm reading that is without spoilers. Get back when I finish.
Def check back in, some of the stories will rock you!
Happy you decided to read it. Such a special book that every SFF fan needs to try. Great review Jimmy!
Thanks for the hype Baron!
buddy reading this soon after i finish malazan book of the fallen. every video I see on hyperion gets me more and more excited
Hope you enjoy 🙂
Very good review. I really enjoyed all four books in the series. I like books that deal with philosophical, social, and psychological topics that relate to our humanity and social structures. Since you found some of the philosophical/religious issues raised in the priest's tale the most interesting and thought provocative, I think you will really enjoy the subsequent books, particularly books 3 and 4. They go much further into the impact and consequences of these ideas and events.
Thanks for the comment Lee, that does sound right up my alley. I look forward to reading the sequels
When I saw that Jimmy putting up a review of one of my favorite books of all time, I had to double check today's date. This man almost had me believing that it was already Christmas :3
Hahaha I'm glad!!
Just read Hyperion and no doubt is one of the best sci fi books of all time. Will definitely check more Simmons in the future.
My favourite book. Priest's tale is the most terrifying thing I've ever read. You forgot to mention the last tale, Council's tale, it's great. Even detective's tale is really memorable for it's beautiful love story.
Although I still haven't read Hyperion (plan on doing it soon), but since you enjoyed it this much, I think you should read The Terror. It is a horror novel based on a real life arctic expedition. It's also written by Dan Simmons, and must be one of my favorite books of all time.
I definitely will
This past year I've been using the Hugo award winners and nominees as a jumping off point for expanding my sci fi taste and you've made me excited to get to this one! I definitely think I'll find something to appreciate about it even if it doesn't end up a favorite.
I think you will too 😃
1/2 are among my favorites of al time. Significant drop off with 3/4 for me. Scholar’s tale by itself would be top 5 short story for me. Definitely curious for your take on book 2. For staples, would love to see you read Asimov’s Robots or anything by Clarke.
I love Asimov Foundation, Robots is definitely gonna happen!
Finished it last night.
Hoyt, Sol and Silenus are fighting it out for my favourite story but I also loved Lamia's story, it felt like I was reading Richard Morgan's Takashi Kovacs books.
My least favourite was Kassed but that's cuz of the main characters he's the least fleshed out. I liked his story though, what an ending to that one!
Dunno if it's my Favourite Sci-Fi book of all-time, maybe Top 5 but I definitely loved it more than Dune.
Loved the framing device, which helps me a lot with getting through short stories which I generally don't gravitate towards, tho I've a much easier time with Sci-Fi Horror and Literary short stories than Fantasy for some reason.
I wanted to stay with the first pilgrim and the bikura whole time. I was loving it to that point and it slowly unraveled for me from there.
Yeah with this type of approach mileage can vary at each stop
@@thefantasynuttwork For sure. Keep up the good work, I'm really enjoying the videos.
@@mooahhdeeb thank you, I really appreciate it!
Thank u for this book review, I hardly read SFI... but I’m trying to read more SFI books now 🍁🍂 happy reading to u!! 🍂📖🎬👻
Thank you!
I read this book when I was like 13 or 14 and loved the hell out of it. I've always been into darker fiction since I first learned to read, and this one has some weird stuff going on. Granted, at that age, so much went over my head. I was just in it for the Shrike on the cover. I imagine reading it as an adult would be even better
Shrike is so badass tbh lol
@@thefantasynuttwork absolutely 😂
@@thefantasynuttwork Wait until you find out what it is...😁
I Just finished. I loved, i realy liked all the tales. And every time a new tale was about to begin i got realy excited
Yeah it's a great book with good pacing!
The Hyperion series is the pinnacle of Sci-fi. It makes Dune look like trash and dislodged Foundation as the best scifi series imho
I love the ending of the book and I do like the sequel a lot, atleast I did 6 years ago and I am excited to re-read it in a month.
I wanna do the sequel sooner rather than later 😁
@@thefantasynuttwork I know Allen Evie and I wanted to have another live on the sequel after we read it, if you want to join let us know!
@@LiteratureScienceAlliance when would you be reading that? Next month?
@@thefantasynuttwork its dependent on Allen and Evie, we don’t have a set month yet but I plan to pick it up once their tbrs let them. My guess is we would discuss it in January with the holidays
@@LiteratureScienceAlliance hmmm keep me updated, I may jump in 👀
Great review Jimmy! The Hyperion duology is my second favorite sci-fi of all time. The detective story was my least favorite as well. Saul’s story had me racked with tears. Being a parent makes it so much more excruciating to read lol. I thought the ending was good by itself, but the story definitely isn’t complete without Fall of Hyperion.
Thanks Chas!
@@thefantasynuttwork you’re welcome.
Something of a late reply, but which is your favourite sci-fi?
@@Metafreak Dune is my favorite 🙂
@@BookishChas Good call, same here
I’ve read Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion and loved them. I haven’t spoken to anybody about the books but my guess as to why some people love prefer one over the might be the fact that Hyperion focuses on this one group of characters while Fall of Hyperion does a lot more world building and plot.
That makes sense
Hyperion is simply brilliant. I've read many books in my life. I can't remember any other book that affected me the way Hyperion did.
Guilty of overcome ting on this post, but wanted to throw some great scifi read recs on here too...
Left Hand of Darkness (LeGuin)
Martian Chronicles (Bradbury)
Foundation (Asimov)
Shadow of the Torturer (Wolfe)
Cryptonomicon (Stephenson)
Fall of Hyperion ( really is part two of the story )
Speaker for the Dead (Card -- sequel to Enders Game)
Death's End (Cixin Liu...its the 3rd in the Remembrance of Earths Past trilogy...sorry ha)
Spin (Wilson)
Book two is AWESOME. I think it's even better than the first one.
Love to hear that!
I'm a little late for the party - ok, a lot - but I finished reading Dan Simmons's Hyperion "yesterday" and my verdict in one word: BRILLIANT! I loved it! 🙏😍
I really like the seven(7) stories, but my favorite is probably the first one, Father Hoyt, which was awesome! The one with Sol Weintraub and his daughter Rachel was great.
Like you, Brawne Lamia story - which is still quite good - is my least favorite story. 😏
Great review, great book(s). I became trapped in the four songs, was unable to escape for three weeks. I am barely back now. I appreciated your comments on writing style and language, which suprising to me, few reviewers do. As an illustration of Simmons' ability, I rather randomly picked a "long" sentence, I think from the fourth Canto: 93 words, perfect grammar, perfect punctuation, coherent but at the edge of one's ability to conceptualize. Build one sometime. :>) 5 Stars.
Thanks!
This book was slightly disappointing to me after all the hype, but the rest of the series was some of my favorite reading ever! Book two (no spoilers!) continues the 'present day' story and becomes a lot more of a classic large scale science fiction structure in the best way! As a whole series and work, I think it's up there with the greats.
Love to hear good things about the sequel!
The Cantos is the best thing I have read this year so far, Rise of Endymion is my favorite of the bunch.
Good to hear!
I agree about the ending. It felt correct, in fact I don't think it demanded a sequel.
I'd like to read the rest someday
This is my favorite SciFi book
That's awesome! Did you like the sequels?
@@thefantasynuttwork I do quite a bit although they're more traditional narratively and I prefer Hyperion
I also really liked Kassads story. I get why the preusts tal and Sols story are the two I hear most praise for, but I also think, even if folks didn't love the poet, Kassad, or Lamia, the story would have a huge hole without any of them.
I agree, they all had weight for the overarching story
I think for a Song of Ice and Fire lover you will love book 2, it expands the story.
That's a good way to sell them on it tbh
I look forward to reading it but I'm finishing up some other Sci-Fi series first; Dune Saga, Takashi Kovacs trilogy and the Hitchhiker's Guide. I'm trying not to repeat the same mistake I did with juggling multiple Fantasy series.
I'm on the final books of Dune and Takashi Kovacs right now so Hyperion might happen sooner rather than later. Or Neuromancer. I dunno 🤣
Decisions, decisions haha
@@thefantasynuttwork and on top of that I've started my ASOIAF re-read. I blame you, Jimmy of the House Baratheon! 🤣
@@thatsci-firogue I take full responsibility
Great titles there. I usually have two or three books going, but if I can interject and suggest that for both Hyperion and Neuromancer, is ...read them alone without other books going at the same time. Hyperion and Neuromancer are both great and unique reading experiences
Olympus/Ilium are great. I have very fond memories of those.
The Terror is one of the most interesting and scary books I have read. Besides Hyperion, this is probably the one I would recommend for someone not familiar with Simmons work.
Awesome, thanks!
Guess I'll have to add this to my never ending TBR 😅
Throw it on the pile 😂
I definitely have unpopular options on this book. A lot of things not explained and glossed over. Breaks his own rules once or twice. Tries too hard with changing narratives a few times. I think i loved the idea and had potential but had a lot of misses for me. BUT think the next book will be better suited for me, which seems to be the opposite to those who loved book 1.
We all have our own tastes, all good!
I'm glad that you liked it.Hyperion is one of the best books I've read this year. My favourite was The Scholar's tale,the idea of ageing backwards was awesome also the emotions I felt during this tale,flawless.Very close behind is The Priest's Tale,also very good,remembered me of Dune.
The Fall of Hyperion I enjoyed it but not as much as the first book,gave it four stars.Endymion was most of the time boring (for me)-three stars and The Rise of Endymion I quite liked-four stars.
Overall sounds good though!
When i first read this book i got to the poets story and was not really liking it so i gave up on it. A year or so later for some reason i decided to give it another go and loved it. The detective story was my favorite.
Nice!
I must agree about Dan Simmons. Hyperion is my all time favourite book. I wanted to read more of his books. I read Carrion comfort and Summer of night and they were awful.
Yeah I actually don’t think I’ll read anything of his other than Hyperion cantos now tbh
Great review nd great book. the second one is almost as good, and I relly liked both the ending.
My suggestion for your next sci-fi are "Caves of steel" and/or "Naked sun" by Asimoiv or "Farenheit 451 by Bradbury" for the classics. "The gone-away world" by Nick Harkaway for something more recent. Beside this, my compliments
I appreciate thenr recommendation!
scared for my life rn watching this bec jimmy is too good at convincing me to read new book 😭
I think you would really like this series!
@@LiteratureScienceAlliance agree!!
I'm here to wreck your tbr 💅
This is def one to read! You won't be disappointed
Yeeees! This needs to be on Ridd Reads! 🙂
Looking forward to reading this one. Unscheduled so far.
It's a good one
Hey Jimmy, I'm currently reading 'Flowers Of Algeron', have you ever read this one? It's regarded as a classic so I'm assuming you maybe have.
I actually have not
@@thefantasynuttwork Ah I highly recommend it, such an emotional story and short too!
Problem with the ending is that there is no destination after the journey. It's nonsensical. Maybe that's what Simmons was after.
Hmmmm yeah could be!
Good timing, just announced that Bradley Cooper will be adapting this to a movie...I guess the studios want in on the sci fi train after the success of Dune :)
Whaaaaat!!! That's incredible
@@thefantasynuttwork Apparently he's been working on it for a long time and his a big fan. I just happened to pick the book up yesterday purely cause I loved the cover. After your review, I think I'll be reading it next :)
@@anthonychrisbradley love that! Enjoy!!
I liked the ending how they all show sympathy for each other
Very good ending
I've been hearing so many amazing things about hyperion but I'm a bit hesitant since my last sci-fi read was dune and despite high praise and it's legendary status i really didn't enjoy it... How would you compare these two, Jimmy?
Hyperion is so much different, hard to even compare imo. Much more of a personal narrative and structured with short stories
I liked Kasad and Lamias stories the most. Honestly hoyts story was sortu depressing but everyone loves his story. And I hate how hyperion looks in my mind. The green streaks or tinge in the sky really really throws me off. The idea that things look more saturated from a distance or upclose and or outfocus or whatever. Idk why the green sky thing bothers me so much but it really really does. It really messed with my brain. Green streaks or a green tinge at night is really cool. But during day light? Also EVERY sky is Lapis Lazuli (lapis with green for Hyperion) except the one lemon yellow sky planet
I HATED how he described hyperion. I hate how unclear his descriptions of things are evdn important stuff like time tombs. He is descriptive, but his descriptions never make sense and ard often confusing
I hate how he seems to be using a thesaurus while writing. I hate how uninventive his names for pretty inventive concepts are. "The all thing" etc and really dumb words like "derigibles".
I thought the prose was mediocre. But ultimately it had a pretty decent plot. And the second book makes it a lot more interesting so far (I'm only like 30%in)
If the reader can wrap his/her head around the fact that it isn't a novel, but really a short story collection centered around a common theme, he will embrace this book.
I loved that
I enjoyed this book. I read it about 10 years ago?
It's a classic
Jimmy nutts making my tbr neveeeeeeeerrrrrrrrr ending 😵.And im not even complaining👏😀
Means I'm doing something right I suppose 😂
@@thefantasynuttwork (nods happily) how dare you!!! You have no idea How stressed im about fitz and regal
7 short stories? Hate short stories. To bad. Was interested.
Yeah this wouldn’t be something you’d enjoy unfortunately
Book 2 is excellent
Good to know!
I’m generally not into the more classic side of sci-fi even though I love a lot of modern stuff, but the more I hear about Hyperion the more I think I might enjoy it. I’m still not sure if I will read it, but I keep hearing about it and I keep thinking 🤔
Hope you do and ya like it!
@@thefantasynuttwork I do love me some big spaceships and good character moments, so I think after watching this review it’ll end up happening 😅
Man, I know this is off topic but anyone ever tell you that you look and definitely sound like Wrestling with wregret?
I’m not familiar with who that is haha
Overall I was lukewarm on Hyperion. Like others, it felt more like a short story bind up, with parts being way stronger than the whole. I respect it though. It's definitely interesting. More than a gimmick, but it does rely on it an awful lot.
I hear the sequel is quite different, more classic science fiction
:D
lol don't read book 2
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These books are not at all what I expected. I was told they were great science fiction books... but someone lied. Pieces of the story are incredible, the rest is horny 80s Heavy Metal comics set to paper. I must have missed the cutoff date for this kind of fantasy to be appealing