I read the first two, and I honestly really didn't like it. The plot was thin and needlessly drawn out. The characters were entirely flat or annoying (I genuinely hate Silenus). The writing had Honest-To-God Whedonisms. And in the end, all you get is>Jewish Princess gets fucked and sucked by Palestinian across time and space in front of her father>Jesus 2.0 is cyborg girl fathered by a manlet redditorThe main theme is>bro diversity is strength and turning into abominable space butterfly-cockroach-monkey hybrids is beautifulThe worldbuilding has some stupidly detailed out-there aspects that are so genuinely meaningless that there's no point in visualising them. He just pukes jargon and nonsensically tries to joint it all together to the point where it's just a generic visual mishmash. The core conflict is just stupid and the machines are far too generic. He tries to mash together time travel and AI and "god", then it all goes>love is the key maaaaaaaaaanBut all that said, it ends in an interesting place with the descriptions of the various planets after Flatcasters are taken out. The only bits I genuinely enjoyed were the first story with the Priest, and the few pages detailing the chaos at the end. So I'm curious to see what ends up happening. But I genuinely hated reading this. Is there any point in continuing, or should I just hit ChatGPT to give me a rundown of the plot to see how it ends?
>>25288435You should read the Endymion books so you can have an asthma attack ranting about them
>priest's tale good rest of book bad, sequels badnpc opinion
>>25288435>doesn't enjoy thing>consume it and its sequel anywayYou sound like you belong on /v/
>>25288435do I have to reread it because I don't remember a giant boobed statue
>>25288435I had the same experience. Hyperion has without a doubt one of the best beginnings to a book I've read but fails to maintain that quality throughout.
>>25288435The priest story is great, and the Jewish guy's story too, though I suspect you need to go to talmudical school to really appreciate the philosophical ramblings there. The Shrike too is a good mystery. The rest I agree with you. And to think Simmons said you basically need to be a Demigod to be a writer.
>>25288435>I genuinely hate SilenusRead the first book and thought he was Reddit-personified. The whole novel seemed like proto-reddit, like The Shrike somehow concentrated Reddit cringe in the form of a novel and sent it back to the best via the conduit of Dan Simmons.
>>25288435Hyperion is nothing more than a few disparate short stories welded together into a novel, by the insertion of tenuous connective passages. Its incoherence is all bit guaranteed by its structure.
I think the ending is hilariously bad.>NANOMACHINES, SON
>>25288435If you hated the good books then you'll absolutely have a conniption after reading Rise of Endymion which is actually one of the worst things I ever forced myself to finish. I say this having enjoyed the first 3 books.
