Wil Wheaton’s Reviews > Hyperion > Status Update

I loved this the first time I read it. I picked it up again to reread, as I planned to go through the whole Hyperion canon this year.

But after about 175 pages and a little over two hours, it has not grabbed me, or held me, the way it did when I was a different person 15 years or so ago.

I still respect it, I'm still so glad I read it once before, but I'm abandoning the reread.

So I may end up abandoning this re-read, because I'm not enjoying Hyperion NEARLY as much this time as I recall. It feels really slow and ponderous, and I just slogged through an entire chapter that was essentially military science fiction that in 2019 feels like a parody of men writing war fantasies.

I'll give it another 50 pages or 1 hour, and make a decision then.

Reading this for the second time, because I don't remember much about it other than the broad strokes.

I don't know how he's going to wrap this up with under 100 pages left.

Made the mistake of reading Sol Weintraub's story in public. As a husband and father, it wrecked me. Love this book so much.

Officially can't put it down, now.

Oh, I see what he's going for. This got compelling over the last 40 pages. Glad I stuck with it, even though it started out really slow.

This starts so slowly, it's a real challenge to stick with it. I hear it's worth it, though, so I'm plodding along, a few pages a day.