Book Thread 2022

[Rock8man]

This was my favorite anecdote about reading Hyperion and its sequel so I’ll link to my post in the other thread.

@Rock8man

When I first found Hyperion in a book store in 1991, I read it, and immediately went to the store and bought the sequel. Meanwhile, I went home the next weekend, and gave the first book to my brother and said, here, you have to read this.

He read the book, and was calling me, when was I going to get the sequel to him? It was agony!

By the time I met him a month or two later, I gave him the sequel, and he didn’t take it. He said nope, I don’t need it. The first book is perfect the way it is. When it ends so abruptly, I didn’t realize this, but the story of these 6 pilgrims is over. The story was about their journey here, not what happens when they finally get there, so I don’t need to read the sequel.