The Hollow Man

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Summary: Sometimes more is not better...
Review: This and Summer of Night are my two favorite Dan Simmons books. However, I enjoyed the short story version of Hollow Man more than the novel version. It was also the first book to ever instill any sort of appreciation for math in me. This is one of those books however, that I fear that if you do not understand or are unable to empathasize with the loss of a loved one, it won't reach you. If you can however, it will tear your heart out and you'll totally understand our Hero's loss and drive to try anything to be with his wife again.

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Summary: reinforces what a creative genius Simmons is
Review: This book grabbed me by the eyeballs - like the best of S.King/R. Bachman - and didn't let go until the very end. A wild ride - thought provoking and well-conceptualized throughout. An on-the-road type book, the protaganist travels from Philly to Disneyworld to the deserts to Las Vegas to... and deals with lots of intense violence and good sickening horror. And reminisces about l-o-v-e on the way to stir the reader in a different way. I liked the Hyperion series a lot - Hollow Man was easier to read (maybe because it is earthbound?) and I liked it just as much (if not better). Only disappointment (which some may like a lot), too much math and physics. Otherwise great stuff.

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Summary: The first book I've read in two days flat...
Review: This book has just about everything: Fine character developement, plenty of action, great plot arcs and (most importantly) it makes you think. Here's a writer with great clarity and humanity who can also surprise the reader with the most amazing, not to mention gruesome plot twists (beware offers of work from tall, wealthy female homesteaders). I look forward to reading the rest of his work with great anticipation, and unreservedly recommend this novel to readers who like something to get their teeth into (pardon the pun).

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Summary: Don't confuse it with the movie
Review: This is the book that got me hooked on Dan Simmons. Using an old-fashioned, pulp-fictitious narrative as a guide-rail, Simmons uses quantum physics and chaos theory to demonstrate how such phenomenon as telepathy could be explained, if they exist at all. Perhaps not his best book (see Hyperion for that), this is still a worthwhile science-thriller in the ilk of Michael Chrichton and Dean Koontz.

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Summary: Truly excellent!!!
Review: This novel stands out from the common classification of "Science Fiction", it is truly an excellently written novel that grabs your attention, and wont let go!

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Summary: Eye - opening...
Review: Who among us hasn't wished we could read others' minds? Jeremy Bremen proves it's not a blessing but a curse. If you're in a crowded area and can't shut the noise out of your head, I could see why it would be maddening. He drifts through the world, passive and at an edge (learning to fly the plane by reading the pilot's mind) to the regular joe, winning the house in Vegas, even making terminally ill children feel happy. And I sure wasn't expecting Miz Morgan to turn out the way she did. The second time I read this novel I skipped over the quantum stuff and just concentrated on the present. Who cares WHY it happens...

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Summary: Eye - opening...
Review: Who among us hasn't wished we could read others' minds? Jeremy Bremen proves it's not a blessing but a curse. If you're in a crowded area and can't shut the noise out of your head, I could see why it would be maddening. He drifts through the world, passive and at an edge (learning to fly the plane by reading the pilot's mind) to the regular joe, winning the house in Vegas, even making terminally ill children feel happy. And I sure wasn't expecting Miz Morgan to turn out the way she did. The second time I read this novel I skipped over the quantum stuff and just concentrated on the present. Who cares WHY it happens...