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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
Hi slayda!
Surely you've heard of Dan Simmons! His "Hyperion" series?
You've got to read that!
He's been discussed here, punch it up in the search bar.
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Based on you comment, I went to Amazon to get an idea of what I might be missing. This was the first review & it convinced me not to go any further.
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0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Got about 6 pages into it. That was more than enough., October 23, 2007
By halda (World Wide Interweb Network Machine System) - See all my reviews
Thankfully, I wasted only a very brief part of my life with this horribly pretentious book. I should have known right on the first page -- any sci-fi novel that starts off with a reference to an obscure piece of classical music is a deal breaker right there.
From the get-go, there was too much of Simmons's overwrought style and self-indulgent jargon. I got about as far as this bit of prose-fapping:
"If the fleet did construct a farcaster in time and the Hegemony committed the total resources of FORCE to defending a single, distant, colonial world of Hyperion, the Worldweb ran the terrible risk of suffering an Ouster attack on the elsewhere...
Before I said "WHAT?! The hell with this!" And resisted the urge to farcast the book into the trash.
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