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Originally Posted by DixieGal
Hi Y'all!
Dennis, I think you are right and I'll tackle the Endymions. I started Anathem and, although I'm sure it is a masterpiece, I'm not going to finish simply because it takes too much work on my part to not try to make it relevant to western civ history and/or church history and/or current politics. I'm getting lazy!  |
The Endymions are worth it. Simmons is good at peeling back layers of the onion, and revealing that the story isn't what you think it is.
I was vastly impressed by The Hyperion Cantos, and recommended them to a friend. Bantam published them as two mass market PB editions, but did not label the first in any fashion as part one of two. My friend was so incensed at running into the cliff hanger at the end of book one that he flatly refused to read anything else Simmons had written. My protests that the publisher's packaging decisions weren't the
author's fault fell on deaf ears.
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Dennis