Wil Wheaton’s Reviews > Hyperion > Status Update

I loved this the first time I read it. I picked it up again to reread, as I planned to go through the whole Hyperion canon this year.

But after about 175 pages and a little over two hours, it has not grabbed me, or held me, the way it did when I was a different person 15 years or so ago.

I still respect it, I'm still so glad I read it once before, but I'm abandoning the reread.

So I may end up abandoning this re-read, because I'm not enjoying Hyperion NEARLY as much this time as I recall. It feels really slow and ponderous, and I just slogged through an entire chapter that was essentially military science fiction that in 2019 feels like a parody of men writing war fantasies.

I'll give it another 50 pages or 1 hour, and make a decision then.

Reading this for the second time, because I don't remember much about it other than the broad strokes.

I don't know how he's going to wrap this up with under 100 pages left.

Made the mistake of reading Sol Weintraub's story in public. As a husband and father, it wrecked me. Love this book so much.

Officially can't put it down, now.

Starting to know the characters, getting invested in their story and journey. Second story just began.

This starts so slowly, it's a real challenge to stick with it. I hear it's worth it, though, so I'm plodding along, a few pages a day.