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Originally Posted by keg in kc
Hyperion is one of the best novels I've ever read. You should really give it more than a single chapter and a few pages. Simmons received the Hugo award for it (same as Robinson got for Green and Blue Mars as I recall).
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I probably should, but I've got a long list of stuff I'm going after currently. Just went and checked the Amazon look inside, and it was actually only a few pages into the first chapter that I gave up. The prologue was OK, although the external balcony with a piano on a spaceship had me scanning forward and back for some sort of explanation. Page 11 just felt like a joke. Talk about "jargon", and completely unexplained jargon at that. Had me going WTF so often I just couldn't continue.
Maybe a few shots would help me get past that page. I'm told the stories are fantastic, but much like William Gibson's works I just have trouble getting past the writing.