Category Archives: Audiobooks

While on my 1 hour and 15 minute commute, I squeeze in some “reading”

Book Review: The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons 0

The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
The Rise of Endymion
The fourth and final book of the Hyperion Cantos was more epic and more information latent than any of the first three books. It does bring many story lines to a close and the scale and scope of [...]

Book Review: Endymion by Dan Simmons 0

Endymion by Dan Simmons
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Dan Simmons returns to the universe that Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion occupy with Endymion. Not so much a third book in a series, but more a first book in a second set in the same universe.
The story or Raul Endymion [...]

Book Review: Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons 0

The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The continuing story of the Pilgrims and the tale of their venture to the time tomes comes to a conclusion in the Fall of Hyperion.
This book picks up where the first, Hyperion, leaves off. What changes is the narrative structure. The [...]

Book Review: Hyperion by Dan Simmons 0

Hyperion by Dan Simmons
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I have been working through audiobooks on my trek to and from work and after the success of Drood as an auidobook, I decided to stay with Dan Simmons and revisit Hyperion. My initial reasoning was that I wanted to read The Fall of Hyperion [...]

Book Review: Desperation by Stephen King 0

Desperation by Stephen King
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Another audiobook, another Stephen King – read again by Stephen King.
This story is more typically Stephen King, in the classic monster, blood, guts, scary impossible situation.
Desperation is a small mining town in the middle of Nevada. 4 groups of people get swept up [...]