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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this novel better than the first installment, <em>Hyperion</em>, and it probably rates 3.5 stars.  After I sleep on it, I may up my rating to four stars, but for now it will sit comfortably at three stars. <br/><br/>We return to the story very nearly where we left off.  Thankfully, Dan Simmons aban...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41019332">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77565.The_Fall_of_Hyperion_Hyperion_2_" title="The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion, #2) by Dan Simmons">The Fall of Hyperion</a> is a sequel. I swear. It says so right there on the cover of my mass market paperback, right above the cheesy artist’s rendering of Sol Weintraub presenting Rachel to a rather unimpressive Shrike. <br/><br/>But I’ll tell you, it sure doesn’t feel like a sequel. It feels ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71628984">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked &quot;The Fall of Hyperion&quot;.  It is an excellent book!  Literate Science Fiction at its best.  If I could give it 4 1/2 stars, I would.  It's not as great as &quot;Hyperion&quot;, I loved the structure of that book a lot more, but it is very much a worthy successor to &quot;Hyperion&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9984481">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend gave me these books (the Hyperion/Endymion series) about six years ago. They're more 'fantasy' science fiction - other worlds, alien races, etc -  than 'hard' science fiction (by that I mean, could happen here and now) so I found them interesting, but you've got to like this style of materi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5515386">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dan Simmons is technically one of the best Sci-Fi writers I have ever had the pleasure to read. I am in awe of his narrative structure. This book, and it's first part Hyperion, are part of a story that rivals Herbert's work with Dune in scope and complexity, but if anything his writing style is a bi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5516125">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain. We are destined and designed to bear our pain with us, hugging it tight to our bellies like the young Spartan thief hiding a wolf cub so it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3233263">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In short, if you were interested in continuing on with this series but was unsure of the quality of the next book; do not worry. This is no weak sequel, and I would highly recommend it.[return][return]One thing that I like is the conclusiveness of each book, at least so far with the first two. While...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66486867">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After enjoying Hyperion more then I thought I would because it turned out to be a book you can think about a little as well as just enjoy for the story, this was a let down.  The whole Canterbury Tales deal was jettisoned, and it was mostly running around and space battles and Keats (yeah, I'm not s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49633041">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After talking with Ward I picked it back up - finding that I had left off with just 200 pages - and remembered why I like Dan Simmons. He's a non-sci fi writer masquerading as a writer of the high-brow masquerading as a sci-fi writer. Based on the path of his career and things he's said, he's contem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73073942">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thought this was a little better than the first one. The structure has changed in regard to the first one. It is now a straight-forward story without any flash-backs, which serves the story well. <br/>Still suffers one of the same problems of the first book, it is a lot longer than it needed to be....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63326126">more...</a>]]></body>
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