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Rhondak101
Posted 2014-03-17 12:04 PM (#6726 - in reply to #6198)
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Location: SC, USA		Thanks, Dusty. Much of the "summarizing" of Solarian scholarship was very slow. I read a newer translation that is supposed to be better than the one that was only available until last year (or maybe a bit earlier). I just finished Hyperion, and the jury is still out for me. I liked the stories better than the overall plot, and I've read that the second book is told from a different POV. i don't think I'm going to run out to buy Fall of Hyperion right away, but I'll probably get to it eventually. As for Red Mars, I wrote in my review that it could be 100 pages shorter and no one would miss them. I got so tired of reading about people driving/flying around Mars and describing what they saw. I'm still looking for the book that will make me say "Wow!" so far nothing I've read this year has been that astounding. However, I might have thought that about The Handmaid's Tale, if I didn't know so much about it when I started. I'm about to start KSR's Years of Rice and Salt, so that might take me to the end of the month, as it is 800 pages and I have a stack of student essays coming in soon. Cheers! Rhonda.

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