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Triumf Endymiona by Dan Simmons

6 reviews

matteo_of_eld's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

If you like Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, I cannot impress upon you enough how much you should not read this book or Endymion. Stupid retcons that ruin thematic content in Hyperion, weird character arcs, borderline pedophilia, long boring philosophical tracts. One of the worst books I've read in a long time, with a dumb, unearned conclusion.
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mmmbecs's review against another edition

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adventurous dark slow-paced

2.0

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sanjica's review against another edition

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challenging slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.25

A poor ending to a great series, making the previous books, and particularly the very unique Hyperion, worse by unnecessarily retconing plot elements. 

Three things I particularly disliked:

  1. Our protagonist is a crybaby, and too many pages are spent on him being aggressively jealous of other people in his beloved child-bride's life (trigger warning:
    who he still calls kiddo while having sex with her?!?
    ), which bring me to...
  2. Aenea - the prophet, the teacher, and the plot-device. There is nothing to be said about her character as, in the end, none of her "teachings" matter at all. She could've been a magical blood bucket and the whole plot would remain the same (but with less whining from Raul).
  3. Speaking of, the plot of the book meanders and could've been edited down significantly without losing anything of importance. Example: author often wastes pages on naming every single elaborately-named character in a scene, even when 30+ characters are present.
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wemilyebb's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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zerobot's review against another edition

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adventurous slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.25

The most insufferable science fiction book I have read since “Stranger in a Strange Land.” So long and so full of characters and names that are impossible to keep straight or at least who are not described well enough to stick in the brain. It’s possible that “Hyperion” was so good that Simmons just couldn’t possible end the story and those of us that read the series this far have to suffer for it.

Also, if the relationship between Raul and Aenea (couldn’t have a normal name for the ethereally perfect messiah pixie dream girl, could you?) wasn’t semi-pedophiliac enough, his calling her “kiddo” all the time really hits the nail on the head. 
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babudarabu's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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