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Summary: Great story
Review: The best read this year. The story and the characters have amazing depth. The underlying love story is sweet/bitter and reminded me of Knut Hamsun's Victoria. The ending is painful, inventive and surprising, it made me weep and feel happy at the same time.
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Summary: The Best SCI FI ever written
Review: The Hyperion series kicks ass! Few writers can combine the socio-political, theological, scientific and philosophical as well as Dan Simmons. He uses age old archetypes in a vast and complex universe. He shows us the rise and fall of civilizations, the inner workings of societal relations, the human desire to find meaning and purpose, the psychology of martyrdom, villany and heroism.
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Summary: Send me to the Hyperion Universe and let me there die.
Review: Well, I've read so many novels but never something of this sort like the Hyperion saga; strong characters, impressive, very good structured, not to mention that the author made use of almost all future technology principles and guess what ?? Everything just fall great in place from hyper jumps using the Void That Binds to time manipulation. The end was very sad to me although it's not a reason to pull off a star (or even a piece of a star) from the rating. All in all: I'm afraid I will never read something that good like Hyperion (all parts !!) and will never be impressed by any other universe like that I've seen in Hyperion. I loved Aenea and Raul Endymion, Rachel and Fedmahn Kassad, and all other characters.
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Summary: Disturbing but excellent
Review: This was a great read. The ending was disturbing but I'm still glad I got all four books. "The Fall of Hyperion" was the weakest of the series. This one might have been the strongest.
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Summary: puzzled
Review: I am puzzled why so many people only rate this book 1 star! It's better than Endymion , nearly on par with Hyperion and (I have to admit) a bit short of Fall. But all in all this is a classic, it has everything ... a tragic lovestory, intruiging complicated plotline, everything that made the first two books so good ... Buy it and you won't be disappointed
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Summary: Too confusing!
Review: I saw a review by another dear reader who said they couldn't get past page 450, well I stopped at 235. Too much time spent describing creatures Raul encountered after being chased by Nemes. As a matter of fact Mr. Simmons spent a page and a half on these creatures. Also there were too many characters and different sub plots that made it hard to keep up. As the other reader states, they only got to page 450 based on the previous books written by Mr. Simmons, and that is the reason I continued reading long after I lost interest. In all honesty part of the problem is most likely due to the long time in between the last novel and this one. So now I'm back to John Grishman's The Street Lawyer.
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Summary: A frustrating conclusion
Review: As has probably been said many times already, the first two books were great, the third good, and this one...disappointing. It kept me reading (despite the messed up pages mentioned by another reader) but it also kept me annoyed. I read it last summer so can't remember all the specific reasons, but I do remember that by the end of Endymion I was incredibly tired of hearing Raul mutter, about Aenea, "I couldn't know what she would come to mean to me," and then all through RoE I had to put up with,"I couldn't know how this would affect me/us in the future." Enough! Just let us figure it out once in awhile! Any element of suspense was ruined by Simmon's incessant and obvious "hinting" at things to come. Other than that, I found the love scenes ridiculous and the ending cheesy. Everyone was more interesting than the main characters, who sent Simmons into downward spirals of contrived prose. I think I need to re-read the first two fanstastic, terrifying, and original books to cleanse my mental palate of this one.
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Summary: A conclusion worthy of the name
Review: I find it amazing that certain reviewers have criticised this book as being off-putting, and not worthy of being in the Hyperion cantos. Amazing. The book finally explains what has been happening to the Church, and while we'd guessed what the cruciforms were for, it was nice to have it confirmed. This book is necessary to understand what happened at the end of the Fall of Hyperion. After the events at the Time Tombs the universe had to move forward into the events described in the books to work. Great, interesting, and heart wrenching in similar ways to the original two books.
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Summary: Missing Pages
Review: I loved the first three and was eagar to get to the fourth - but beware - in my paperback edition page 150 leads directly to page 215. Later, page 246 is followed by page 183. Maybe pages 150-183 farcasted somewhere, or were devoured by the Ultimate Intelligence. Check your paperback carefully before purchasing! Emails to Bantam Books will go unanswered, I assure you. It must be the work of the evil Pope Julius the whatever. Please help!
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Summary: Amazing..
Review: I am not going to write three paragraphs on what I thought of the books. Simply put, one of the best books I have ever read. Characters are amazing and real, the world building is great. Simply one of the best books ever written in the genre.
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