There have been two recent threads/posts on Hyperion at tor.com, both by Jo Walton,
Is the right book winning the Hugo? and
Better to travel hopefully: Dan Simmons’s Hyperion. Hyperion won the Hugo in 1990, and Jo concludes that it was the best novel of that year. She also concludes that
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The reading order for the Hyperion series is “Read Hyperion and then stop.” But Hyperion itself is well worth reading and re-reading. It’s undoubtedly a masterpiece.
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Others agree with tompe that Fall of Hyperion rounds out the storyline.