Clemens

Abstract.
Strange.
Wonderful.
Interesting.

You could even say

Kafkaest

Note that I read that in the german version. No idea how a translation works with this.

Although it starts not really very well and the writing and conversation feels very wooden and clishe like after about half into the book the whole story picks up to a really nice finale.

A very good book, a very interesting book, but also a book that has some parts that are really really really hard to read because it is written in like “spoken slang” english. Like u hav 2 imagin tis is ritten like tis and @ ti moment u get so confused abut tis.

Yeah, hard to read, especially if you are not a native reader.

Anyway, would still recommend to read :D

Overall a very satisfactory read, but missing this slight part that would have made it outstanding. Especially when you can never really shelf off those deep mind Culture book thoughts. But overall a fantastic book absolutely worth reading. Recommended

How Vonnegut writes is just simple amazing. Every sentence a pleasure to read, every page a pure enjoyment. The whole book sounds even more important when you look at the world today. Just amazing. Highly recommended

A fantastic story in a fantastic universe with fantastic things. Miéville again has proven that he can come up with some absolutely fantastic universe with fantastic things and an amazing story.

Highly recommended

Another collection of short stories, but this time I am not very convinced by the quality. There are some slightly connected stories in the middle that are quite good, but the rest is really just mediocre. A bit of “can skip” book.

A lot of short story collections have stories that range from meh to really good, but this collection holds pretty much only really amazing stories.

I put of reading this book because, as said, short story collections are often so much hit an miss. But not this one.

All the stories are in the Relevation Space universe and here and there you find some characters coming up that are also in the normal novels.

Highly recommended

I did not enjoy this one as much as the previous two. Parts of it were fantastic, but overall it was a bit weak.

The ending was good and probably saved the book from an ever worse rating

A crowning end to this fantastic story on the remote planet. Wonderful intertwined with the backstory of earth itself.

Absolutely fantastic trilogy.

Highly recommended.

As equal amazing as the first part, the second part plays mostly in a different region on Helliconia and also circles back to the place of the first book. Again we get amazing story telling and wonder writing. Absolute perfect.

Like there are good B Movies there are good B Books. And this is one of them. But after all I can't give it more than three stars. Nice story, nice characters, but overall not much depth to it.

That was a surprising good book. Much better than the previous two books. The characters through this book were kept on a normal level and not overloaded with stereotypes, the whole story was very well written. Yeah, that was really nice.

I have no idea if I even understood what was going on in this book, but I enjoyed it. It was truly strange and abstract and sometimes hard to follow, but it was great.

There is not much more to say, just that this is a book very hard to recommend. If you enjoyed books like Catch 22 or Gravity Rainbow, then yeah, this could be worth reading, else, no.

When you catch yourself in skipping paragraphs because they are just utterly boring and don't do anything to the story and the story itself is just this very thin ribbon that is almost not there then you realize that this book is not for you.

I just didn't like it. It had some good moments and the writing itself was solid but I could not attach to any of the characters and didn't care about them not where they go.

Whenever something interesting happened that might be interesting it was just cut short.

Not recommended.

Pretty much what I expected, although I thought it was not as good as the first book, but then they are only very loosely connected and completely different story lines anyway.

Overall it was a fantastic fantasy novel as a fantasy novel should be. Fantastic fantasy.

Overall very satisfying, although on some points very philosophical novel, but at the end a very good one. Sort of a wonderful “end” to the Culture series. Another view of the whole universe, more interesting background. Just sad that there are no more and never will be any more. By far the best Sci-Fi series out there, especially in variety of the content.

Highly recommended. All of them. Even the less “good” ones.

It is good, but far from the amazing level his previous books were. It sometimes felt like a short story collection that is somehow interconnected. Still looking forward to the next book.

A very satisfactory read, an amazing closing to an amazing story. I truly enjoyed this book from the first to the last page. I am also very glad about the ending that really explains pretty much everything that needed to be explained.

All my complaints I might have had about unexplained parts at the end of the second book, they are all explained in these two books.

Highly recommended, a must read if you read the first two books. And if not, read the first two books before reading this one. Obviously.

I never read the second two books of the Hyperion Cantos because I read some reviews how horrible they are.

Those reviews lied.

This book was amazing from the first page to the last one. It felt a bit like reading the first book of the Hyperion Canots, perhaps not 100% on the same level, that is unreachable, but very close. I fully enjoyed it.

So if you read the first two books, I recommend that you read this one too.

I have read several Stephenson books, but this is by far the beast of them. Amazing story, his really good writing combined together make this an amazing read from the first page to the last page.

I read this book because I read the first two books and it irked me that I never finished it. After the last book, which was a boring disaster, I thought it couldn't get worse and so I read this one.

Well, it is still not better than the first one. Parts are interesting, other parts are utter non understandable gibberish. Stuff happens, then other stuff happens and then this and that and really nothing makes much sense.

And then it ends and I am not wiser about what actually happened at all.

Boring, and with all the characters even more utterly annoying and stereotypical. Probably the worst of all the Hole novels.

Also who thinks that a Taxi driver calls his clients “punters”. Who translates this shit. Seriously.

Only the last 10% or so are actually gripping, the rest can be almost skipped.

One of the best ones from the Culture series, the whole story worked so very well together. So many fantastic moments and places. This was a very enjoyfull ride.

What a fantastic trilogy. One of the best book series I have read in a long time.

Still, the last book, while really good, was not up to par with the previous two books.

The book lost me a bit in the last third part. While overall satisfied, I cannot say I was 100% happy.

Nonetheless I super highly recommend this series