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The Fall of Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion | Dan Simmons
In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention.Onthe world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening.And the secrets they contain mean that nothing--nothing anywhere in the universe--will ever be the same.From the Paperback edition.
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mindduckbooks
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Mehso-so

I would recommend it to anybody who likes to talk crazy plots with their friends. So many loose ends, concepts, Keats, AIs, so many bonkers moments. Does it come together and is everything resolved nicely in a satisfactory way at the end. Exactly the opposite as a matter of fact.

The truth is that we could talk about this book for hours on end. Join us for the discussion on the Mind Duck Books podcast ep. 52: https://bit.ly/44QbdYh

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cookbranden11
Fall of Hyperion | Dan Simmons
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9/10

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Sha0102
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MaddestMax
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Man! This took me forever to finish. Busy year with the family and work coupled with it not being quite the page turner Hyperion is, and voila: destruction of my reading numbers.

I enjoyed this story. I enjoyed it a lot. It is NOT at the same pace as the first. It‘s slow and sometimes drawn out. BUT, the story is great. I was pleasantly surprised a few times, even.
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MaddestMax There‘s a change in the writing about two-thirds of the way in. It‘s almost imperceptible but I‘d swear it‘s there. It‘s like someone else started helping with the writing. Or Simmons went through some life experience that changed him a little, maybe. I don‘t know how to explain it, but I felt it. CONT (edited) 4y
MaddestMax I won‘t be tackling the last two books right away. I need to catch up on some other books. I will be getting to them eventually for sure. I look forward to seeing how the Cantos plays out. 4y
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shadowspeak17
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These are my top 10 books of 2019! 😄 There are a few close ones I might switch around depending on how I‘m feeling at the moment, but for now, these are in order 1-10 starting in the top left corner.
#bestof2019 #top10

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shadowspeak17
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Congratulations on you milestones, @Chrissyreadit ! 😄🎉🎊 Thank you for hosting the #thankyougiveaway !

My favorite book I read this year is probably The Fall of Hyperion. I have no idea what books are coming out in 2020, so just out of the already released books that I‘m hoping to get to next year, I‘m most excited about reading Infinite Jest.

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MaddestMax
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Put on Soma FM for some reading music and this is the song that was on. Imagine that.

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Minervasbutler
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Mehso-so

This sequel abandons the frame structure of the first in favour of a first-person narrator (the cybrid reconstruction of John Keats, since you asked) and to my mind the sheer complexity of the plot slightly weakens the effectiveness of the storytelling. It's hard to keep up with exactly who has betrayed whom and my eyes glazed over too often during the interminable military briefings. Slightly disappointing.

Geeklet Agreed. I loved Hyperion but I felt like the following three books were a bit of a downhill slide into mediocrity. Next time I‘m craving a reread, I‘ll probably just stick with Hyperion and ignore the sequels. 5y
Minervasbutler @Geeklet I felt I had to know what happened after the cliff edge that Hyperion ended with but I think I'll ignore the rest of the series. 5y
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Minervasbutler
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Bit like Brexit then? ;)

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rretzler
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This was probably NOT the book to listen to on audio, nor was it the sequel to wait a year to read. I enjoyed it, but I think I would have enjoyed it more had I read it immediately after Hyperion. Simmons‘ 🌎 building is amazing and he did a decent job of wrapping up from the first book but leaving some things wide open for the rest of the series. A little confusing at times but that could have been my inattention. Recommend series. 4⭐️ #2019

RichieNarvaez A great series to read! Literary and full of clever and well realized world building. 5y
rretzler @RichieNarvaez I wish I were a bigger fan of Keats. I think I‘m probably missing some of the more subtle allusions to his work in the books. The world building is superb though. My understanding is the the next books may turn things upside down a bit. I‘m thinking there might be a Terminator/Terminator 2 vibe about the Shrike that I sensed late in Fall. 5y
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shadowspeak17
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Here are my #Top6Reads of 2019 so far. The top three are solidly on my list. The bottom three could change, but they feel right for the moment.

Cinfhen I get what you‘re saying!!! I also chose 5y
Cinfhen Thanks for sharing...I think I need to try The Milkman again. I bailed the first time. 5y
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rretzler
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Way behind on my reviews, so eventually I‘ll probably post a bunch, but I was listening to this book while working on the computer and looked up to catch our 2 nearly-nightly backyard visitors! (Wow - that‘s a run on sentence if I ever saw one!) Thought I would share the nature! 🦌

Texreader Lovely!! 5y
rretzler @Texreader Thanks, we live in the suburbs of the 14th largest city in the US, but are lucky enough to see almost every day chipmunks, squirrels, rabbits, deer, many bird varieties and sometimes even a fox or coyote in our backyard! 5y
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MaddestMax
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I chose not to wait too long and dove back into it. So far, I‘m really enjoying it again.

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shadowspeak17
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Yay! I actually got six prompts read this quarter for #booked2019! 😄

#FairyTaleRetelling: The Bear and the Nightingale
#NewToYouAuthor: Fox 8
#CliFi: The End We Start From
#Genrebusting: Friday Black
#BookGiftedToYou: The Fall of Hyperion
#PoCMCParanormal: Kindred

MelissaSue81 I loved Fox 8 so much! 5y
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Bookwurmz
The Fall of Hyperion | Dan Simmons
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Liked Hyperion, but wish he had just wrapped it up. This started ok, but you know that time when you had to write a paper and you needed to write a certain number of pages so you described stuff unnecessarily ad nauseum just to get the word count? It felt like that.

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shadowspeak17
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A good start to the year! 😄

Total books read: 5
Ebooks: 2
Physical books: 3
Borrowed: 1
#booked2019: 4
#seriesread: 2

Average rating: 4.1 stars

#JanuaryStats #JanuaryWrapUp

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shadowspeak17
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
First, a shoutout to my bestie for sending me this book and recommending Hyperion for my #friendrecchallenge last year because this book was so good! 😄 This was truly an epic reading experience set up perfectly by Hyperion. I was so invested in this story that whenever I picked it up, I rarely had any desire to put it down. If the holidays and illness hadn‘t gotten in the way, no doubt I would have finished ⬇️

TheSpineView I want to read this series! 5y
Cinfhen I forgot about that upcoming prompt!!! Good memory 👍🏻😁 5y
alisiakae My husband loves this series, he just reread it recently. I‘ll get to it someday! 😃 5y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Great review. It‘s so great when someone really gets your reading preferences. ♥️📚✔️👊🏻 5y
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shadowspeak17
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Reading time with my #Phoenix boy. ❤️

#catsoflitsy

AlaMich Awww! 😻 5y
Lreads 😻💕 5y
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shadowspeak17
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Hoping I‘ll be able to get back to my two current reads soon. I‘ve been fighting a cold the past few days that‘s left me with a bad headache which hasn‘t made reading very appealing. 😩

Slajaunie Hope you feel better soon!📖📚 5y
AmyG Feel better! 5y
Lreads I hope you start feeling better! 💕 5y
shadowspeak17 @Slajaunie @AmyG @QuietlyLaura Thank you! 💕 Still a bit under the weather, but fortunately the dreaded headache was gone today. Time to get back to reading! 😄 5y
Slajaunie Good to hear! Enjoy! 5y
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Elgriffith
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It had a different narrative style, but overall I really enjoyed it. One of my first real “hard” sci-fi reads.

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Giant_book_worm
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I enjoyed the ending of the first part of the Hyperion Cantos.

You get more of the characters from the first, fleshed out with their motives intact. You also are introduced to some new characters, some playing very interesting roles and used as interesting plot devices.

I thought the first one was slightly better, but this one wraps up the first half well. I look forward to reading the next two novels.

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shadowspeak17
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Yay, book 2 is here! 📚

#bookmailisthebestmail

Geeklet Very fun books 6y
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SleepyDragon
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#MtTBRChallenge complete! I've reached my goal of reading these 18 books, with the milestone mini goals along the way, with months to spare. In addition, I have also read a couple books from my #TBRsupplemental, which is basically just books I randomly pick from my shelves and TBR piles around the house. So, I'm actually at 20/18. Now I just have to choose a cool reward to treat myself with.

wanderinglynn Congrats! 🎉👏🏻🎉👏🏻 6y
SleepyDragon @wanderinglynn Thanks! I'm excited that I'm finding more time to read than I thought I would. I've been averaging 3 month, which feels like a miracle. 6y
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SleepyDragon
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Mehso-so

⭐⭐⭐(3)
Didn't love it. Didn't hate it. Good ending.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2251393337

#MakeMeReadIt 3/3 (finished 8/31) Thanks, @TheReadingMermaid !
#MtTBRChallenge complete! 18/18

BeansPage You are very welcome. I'm so glad we all got through our Stacks a little bit 😉 6y
SleepyDragon @TheReadingMermaid Some of the ones that I didn't get to in #MakeMeReadIt I'm including in the #BookaWeekChallenge stack that I will post in a little while. Lol 6y
BeansPage That's the way to do it girl. Great job! 6y
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SleepyDragon
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The 24 in #24B4Monday refers to minutes, right? Lol 😉

There was just too much going on this weekend, between plans with friends and prepping for the oldest boy's 1st day of 6th grade today. I knew my count wouldn't be very high. But I did make a dent in the tagged, and I hope to finish it before the 1st. I just need to push myself a little this week. @TheReadingMermaid , maybe I'll do better next time. Lol

BeansPage You still did great. Thank you for participating! 🤗 6y
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SleepyDragon
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Got a little reading done Friday night for #24b4Monday, but not as much as I wanted. I'm about 60% through tagged book. It's gotten kind of gory, so I had to put it down.
@TheReadingMermaid

BeansPage Nice! Love book gore LOL 😋 6y
VeganCleopatra I'm curious what timers people are using, what one is this? 6y
SleepyDragon @VeganCleopatra Android timer on Samsung. 6y
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SleepyDragon
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I read more than I thought I would today, especially since our carefully prepared plans for the weekend have been totally ruined by my husband having to unexpectedly work all day today, and I ended up with a stress induced headache. The next few days are going to be really hard and stressful around here. #12intwo , though really #6intwo , @Samplergal #MakeMeReadIt #sometimeslifestinks

Samplergal Excellent! Keep it going! 6y
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SleepyDragon
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Okay, so even though I'll be busy almost the entire day Sunday, I'm thinking of participating. I just started the tagged book, and want to get a running start into it's 517 pages. There's quite a bit of war talk, which I tend to zone out on. Though I might give myself a lesser goal, say #6intwo ? This starts at midnight tonight, right? #12intwo @Samplergal

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SleepyDragon
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Hoping my kiddos stay on "the creature trail" long enough for me to read a few pages before I have to go pick up their brother from karate class. (Photo bomb by Moby the whale)

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SleepyDragon
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Time to move on to the third book in my #MakeMeReadIt stack, The Fall of Hyperion. This is also the final book of my #MtTBRChallenge list, 18 of 18. At over 500 pages, this may take me into September, especially since the end of August will kind of stink around here, between various appointments and back to school stuff.

I like the dedication page.

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SleepyDragon
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Finishing The Nix by Nathan Hill put me at 95% of my #MtTBRChallenge goal of the 18 books on my primary #TBR list. Whoo hoo! Time for some ice cream! 🍦

I'm so far ahead of schedule that I have also read two books off my #tbrsupplemental stack.

The tagged book is the only title left on my primary list, and third on my #MakeMeReadIt challenge August TBR list. Fourth on the list is #tbrsupplemental. The first two aren't TBR, but are #readharder.

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FaisalJ
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Continuation of the Hyperion saga, the pilgrims journey concludes with universe wide implications. The scope of the tale increases to the entire human race. War, conspiracy, spirituality and religion all come together. Starts as a space opera, then turns into sci-fi fantasy and concludes as myth. 8/10

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eclecticreading
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Lmao, is it me or did the font just get smaller in this book? 😂🔬👓 #currentlyreading

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PeterDWebb
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Great series.

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andytbarnes
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@Liberty I know the title's not referring to "Fall" as in the season, but your #springcleaning giveaway seemed like a great excuse to plug some quality sci-fi. Hyperion and this sequel are required reading for any fan of the genre who likes their Sci-fi to wrestle with some heavy concepts and a dash of theology.

DuckOfDoom I totall agree! Hyperion is a must read📚 7y
Aleida With which Hyperion does one start? 7y
andytbarnes @DuckOfDoom 🙌🏽 nice to hear from a fellow fan! 7y
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andytbarnes @Aleida You'll want to start with Hyperion. Fall of Hyperion is book 2 (both of which are excellent), and then book 3 is Endymion which has been lost in the shuffle of my ever intimidating TBR pile. 7y
Aleida @andybarnes thank you. 7y
Joshsandaker I love Dan Simmons. I've mostly only read his historical fiction (listening to 'Drood' on audio currently), but haven't checked his Hyperion series out yet. 7y
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Kryckett
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Bailedbailed

Oh, man. Hyperion was an epic, Canterbury Tales-esque science fiction thriller. Not even the burning desire to find out what the heck is going on, that I was left with when Hyperion ended, can make me power through Fall of Hyperion. Which is a shame, because I am more than halfway. It feels like it drags on for the sake of dragging on. Plot points are over-complicated. Gratuitousness abounds. I am really disappointed.

James This book was very disappointing. As you say, Hyperion was great. 7y
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