Month 35 of 260 (13.46 percent)
Size of list: 88,224 pages (13.43 percent above start)
Pages read: 18,562 (21.04 percent)
H-list: 5,415/23,530 (23.01 percent)
N-list: 6,842/36,694 (18.65 percent)
O-list: 6,305/28,000 (22.52 percent)
Finished: Hyperion
Reading: Ancillary Sword, Lord of Chaos
Added: The Stone Sky (2018 Hugo winner), The Fall of Hyperion
I pretty much knew nothing about Hyperion, the 1990 Hugo winner. I knew I had seen it on many bookshelves, but nobody really talked about. We should talk about it, because it's a wonderful book (as one would expect from a Hugo winner). There is some...thing on the planet Hyperion, something called the Shrike, and the legend is that pilgrims can go there in a group, and it will grant the wish of one of the pilgrims and kill the rest. The bulk of the book is six stories of what compels pilgrims to make this trip. The stories are a variety, as befits a variety of motives — salvation, a child, a poem — but all wonderful. As soon as I finished it, I put the sequel on the list to read next year.
I'm also reading Lord of Chaos, book six of the Wheel of Time. Ugh ugh ugh WOW ugh ugh WOW. An abridged version, a good parts version, would be a great gift to humanity.
Reading: Ancillary Sword, Lord of Chaos
Added: The Stone Sky (2018 Hugo winner), The Fall of Hyperion
I pretty much knew nothing about Hyperion, the 1990 Hugo winner. I knew I had seen it on many bookshelves, but nobody really talked about. We should talk about it, because it's a wonderful book (as one would expect from a Hugo winner). There is some...thing on the planet Hyperion, something called the Shrike, and the legend is that pilgrims can go there in a group, and it will grant the wish of one of the pilgrims and kill the rest. The bulk of the book is six stories of what compels pilgrims to make this trip. The stories are a variety, as befits a variety of motives — salvation, a child, a poem — but all wonderful. As soon as I finished it, I put the sequel on the list to read next year.
I'm also reading Lord of Chaos, book six of the Wheel of Time. Ugh ugh ugh WOW ugh ugh WOW. An abridged version, a good parts version, would be a great gift to humanity.
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