[June] What Are You Reading?

[Nellisir]

Just started Hyperion by Dan Simmons. I've heard good things and I like how it's started.

You're mocking me, aren't you? You are. You are mocking me. Darn you all to heck.

Make sure you can get Fall of Hyperion.

 

[Agamon]

You're mocking me, aren't you? You are. You are mocking me. Darn you all to heck.

Make sure you can get Fall of Hyperion.

Lol, I was all, "Wha...?" Then I scrolled upthread a bit. Not intentionally mocking you, sir.

I understand the end of the first book is very cliffhanger-y. Fall of Hyperion is in the queue.

 

[Nellisir]

Lol, I was all, "Wha...?" Then I scrolled upthread a bit. Not intentionally mocking you, sir.

I understand the end of the first book is very cliffhanger-y. Fall of Hyperion is in the queue.

Cliffhanger is somewhat of an understatement. Hyperion is Act One, wherein Our Players Are Introduced. Fall of Hyperion, which I have just started, is hopefully Act Two, wherein Stuff Gets Resolved. Someone over on Circvs Maximvs actually prefers the ending of Hyperion, since it leaves stuff open to the imagination, so to speak, but I say there's open to the imagination, and there's just plain unfinished.

All that said, I quite liked Hyperion, and my primary complaint is that the book is not clearly set out as Part One of Two. If it had been, I would have gotten both at the same time.

 

[Jhaelen]

Someone over on Circvs Maximvs actually prefers the ending of Hyperion, since it leaves stuff open to the imagination, so to speak, but I say there's open to the imagination, and there's just plain unfinished.

Well, I guess, it depends on how much you care about the frame narrative. The backstories of the 'Players' stand well on their own.

I'd be interested what you think about it after reading both books.

Oh, and it's quite likely you'll want to read the two Endymion books afterwards since they kind of continue the Hyperion books' story

 

[Starman]

The Hyperion Cantos are some of my favorite sci-fi books. Hyperion is definitely the strongest, but the rest are very good as well. Simmons has become one of my favorite authors.

 

[coyote6]

Right now, reading Death's Heretic, by James Sutter.

I finished Tales of the Far West a couple of days ago, and now I'm really looking forward to checking out the RPG when it comes out. Seems like a fun setting.

Hmm, I seem to be on an RPG-tie-in fiction binge.

 

[Stumblewyk]

I've decided I can't put up with Wizard's First Rule any longer. Richard just leashed [-]Gollum[/-] Samuel, and I'm sick of it. Just can't do it any more.

Decided to start reading Feed by Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire.

 

[Ebon Shar]

I've decided I can't put up with Wizard's First Rule any longer. Richard just leashed [-]Gollum[/-] Samuel, and I'm sick of it. Just can't do it any more.

Decided to start reading Feed by Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire.

I would give you XP for coming to your senses, but it seems I've already done so recently.

 

[Ebon Shar]

I'm still struggling to finish The Sound and the Fury. When I sit down to read it, my attention inevitably wanders to the stack of comics next to my chair! So, I've decided to take a break and read Red Shirts by John Scalzi. Looks like a lot of fun.

 

[ComradeGnull]

Currently about halfway through China Mieville's Railsea.

How are you liking it? I read the first chapter or so (possibly as an Kindle excerpt, I think) and it didn't really grab me like some of his other stuff has (read most, if not all, his other books at this point).

Intermittently reading Dostoevsky's The Idiot these days. Knocked out Starship Troopers and A Fire Upon the Deep while on vacation at the start of the month.