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 [...]
Categories: Audiobooks, Books
Tagged: audiobook, book review, Hyperion
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 [...]
Categories: Audiobooks, Books
Tagged: audiobook, first person narrator, hunt guide
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 [...]
Categories: Audiobooks, Books
Tagged: audiobook, book review, fall of hyperion, story of the pilgrims, Victor Bevine
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 [...]
Categories: Audiobooks, Books
Tagged: audiobook, book, book review, buick 8, Dan Simmons, fall of hyperion, Hyperion, Victor Bevine
Drood by Dan Simmons
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
(3.75 stars)
I always like when an author takes real historical figures and locations and fictionalizes them. Dan Simmons has written a very interesting tale as told by Wilkie Collins covering the last 5 years of Charles Dickens’s life.
The book unfold around a train accident [...]
Tagged: audiobook, book, book review, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickinson, Collins, Dan Simmons, Dickens, drood dickens, Edwin Drood, Michael York, mystery of edwin drood, Nice, Simon Prebble, Wilkie, wilkie collins, York
Duma Key by Stephen King
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
Caught Stealing (Hank Thompson Series #1) by Charlie Huston
