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Starting Endymion (there will be spoliers!!!!)
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Author:  danlo60 [ Sat Jul 15, 2006 7:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Starting Endymion (there will be spoliers!!!!)
I'm 29 pages into Endymion and I'm wondering if anyone else had a hard start to this book. Raul is engaging and it's great to be back on Hyperion again, but my old paperback version seems to switch his age back and forth: first he's 27 then he's 28 then he's 27 again. Is this an editing boo-boo? And, also, does anyone have the feeling that the book starts out a bit rough? The writting just feels a bit odd, as if Simmons, once the Hegemony is wiped out, knows he has a great new story to tell, but he's just a little bit unsure how to get it going. *****
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.
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Author:  Duchess of Malfi [ Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:52 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Starting Endymion
Hang with it. It all starts to make sense once an important second character makes her entrance.

Endymion is an important man - but not because of being brighter or stronger or braver or more educated than anyone else. His voice reflects that lack of higher education. In many ways he is an average Joe from the Outback, and a lot of the time he doesn't quite "get" what is going on around him until he has time to reflect on things.

I came to adore him by the end of the story.
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Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Author:  danlo60 [ Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Starting Endymion
Don't tell me it's an allusion to Time Tomb stuff! *****
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.
Fravashi saying (from the formularies of Osho the Fool) <i></i>
Author:  Duchess of Malfi [ Sun Jul 16, 2006 5:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Starting Endymion
Oh, the Time Tombs will have an important part in the story. You will see. ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Author:  danlo60 [ Tue Jul 18, 2006 3:38 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Starting Endymion
Holy crap! I don't like the ideal of having my molecules flattened in an archangel courier only to be ressurrected on two planets within a week! Eeek! , I don't know maybe that's just me... *****
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.
Fravashi saying (from the formularies of Osho the Fool) <i>Edited by: danlo60 at: 7/17/06 8:40 pm
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Author:  Duchess of Malfi [ Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Starting Endymion
The Archangel ships gave me the serious creeps, too. ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Author:  danlo60 [ Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:29 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Starting Endymion
Well it's not like the curciforms, the Shrike or the blood-gutted labyrinths don't I was right up to the rescue attempt when I left my book out in a thunderstorm! *****
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.
Fravashi saying (from the formularies of Osho the Fool) <i></i>
Author:  Duchess of Malfi [ Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:29 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Starting Endymion
Are you talking about the rescue at the Time Tombs?

To me, that is one of the greatest scenes in all of science fiction!!! ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Author:  danlo60 [ Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Starting Endymion
Yea! bought a brand new copy--the thunderstorm really fried the old one--been Endymion less for 4 days after I had to throw it away... *****
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.
Fravashi saying (from the formularies of Osho the Fool) <i></i>
Author:  Duchess of Malfi [ Wed Jul 26, 2006 5:43 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Starting Endymion
And right before some wonderful things happen in the book, too. ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Author:  danlo60 [ Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Starting Endymion
Holy crap the story really grabbed me by the cojones after page 400! Nemes is INSANE! With the Chitchatuk we have another Simmons/Zindell parallell (is Father Gaucus the Shanidar comparision? )!!! On chapter 56 almost done and searching frantically for a used copy of "Rise"! *****
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.
Fravashi saying (from the formularies of Osho the Fool) <i></i>
Author:  Duchess of Malfi [ Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:54 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Starting Endymion
It grabbed me with the rescue at the Time Tombs...and then the various adventures as they journey...

In Rise you will start getting it all explained...from the Shrike to what the Teacher of Man teaches. ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Author:  danlo60 [ Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Starting Endymion
Bad Pax! Bad TechnoCore!!! *****
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.
Fravashi saying (from the formularies of Osho the Fool) <i></i>
Author:  Duchess of Malfi [ Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:09 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Starting Endymion
Some of the Pax members become some of my favorite characters of all four Hyperion books.

But Nemes will always make my skin crawl. ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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