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So what are you reading? What drew you to that book?
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Right now, Hyperion by Dan Simmons. I'm reading it because a couple of friends, a cousin and I do a little bookclub podcast. We do speculative fiction. We take turns picking a book then nerd out about them. This was Will's pick. Last pick was mine, it was the first three books in the Hitch Hikers Guide trilogy.
After this, I'm pretty sure I'm going to re-read The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton. Its been dozens of years since the last time I read that.
Great book but I highly recommend you read the second book, Fall of Hyperion, afterwards as it rounds out the story nicely. I know there are more books afterwards but I was satisfied after the first two as I felt that it completed the story nicely and j never felt I wanted more tbh.
Fall of Hyperion is a good stopping point. I liked 3 and 4 as well, but they're doing their own thing. I tend to think of it as two separate pairs rather than as a single 4 book series.
I keep meaning to go back and read the other two but just never got around to it. Would you recommend them?
I liked them. The arc of the first two is over. You get more details about the Shrike, but if you've gone years without reading further, I can't imagine it's that pressing.
If you reach a point where you're looking for sci fi, and don't have another obvious choice, go for it you'll probably like them. But I wouldn't recommend shifting them above anything in your backlog. Hyperion and Fall off Hyperion really are the stars here.
yeah, the ending of the second book is great. I also like how the questions are answered