Well, I finished despite the slowdown that occurred due to school starting up again. 3 cheers for me.
Some thoughts -
- Off the bat, it’s a solid read. The book is basically just the history of the pilgrims making the voyage to Hyperion (as it’s part 1 of a 4 book series). The characters’ stories are compelling, emotionally charged and exciting. And even though it ended on a cliffhanger, the book could really stand as its own entity of a story.
- I’m a science fiction novice (in the book world), and on a scale of reading easiness I would rank this is in the intermediary level. I personally never understood the mentality of authors to drop a reader into a futuristic world without at least a tiny bit of orientation. The pace automatically slows down as you try to get a handle on a world that was written as if it was common knowledge to the reader. Once you can get past that, it’s clear sailing. Or just read the background information wikipedia as I wished I did beforehand.
- A movie is in the works for the book, combining the first 2 in the series. It will be interesting to see how they cram that much content in, and I’m very skeptical it will be even remotely good. But hey, prove me wrong. I’ll be happy to eat crow on this.
Andrea’s book rating out of 10 with 1 being suckage and 10 being brilliance: *6.75*
