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Much to my surprise, this book is very different stylistically to its two predecessors. Rather than their almost lyrical, literary style, it’s written entirely committed from a character’s perspective, in first-person, giving the tone a very different touch, more popular sounding. It’s also much more relaxed in pace, instead of the break-neck speed of revelations I was used to.

After months of finding myself unable to pick up any fiction book, meandering about with dozens of half-read non-fiction books, 3 chapters in and onto the next one, I had to admit to myself that nothing else was going to satisfy the yearning for those grande universe-bending head-scratching ideas and concepts, as the Hyperion Cantos can, so I finally picked up a copy of its third installment at Strand Books in NYC.

Started reading this to get back into this world, since I’ve long been meaning to read through the Foundation and the Robot novels.
The first short story really grabbed me and I couldn’t put it down until the end. Surprisingly moving, can’t wait to read the rest.

Read a good bit of this in a bookstore while waiting for a friend. Started out quite interesting, with a lot of ideas that seemed to be applicable to modern society everyday life.
I was surprised to realize the author’s very conservative views - she seemed to view societies move away from beating children as a bad thing, and any kind of exposure of sexual contents to children as terrible.

This book’s proving to be quite difficult to get through - been at it on-and-off for what must be about a year now. I love it to pieces every time I get back into it, but it’s incredibly complex and demanding in the concepts it tackles.