Oleh Sklyarenko

Nebula and Hugo awards. Seriously?

Revisado: 10-23-23

Look, it's a fine sci-fi story. But it absolutely lacks depth and doesn't provide some interesting conflict to observe. This breaks immersion. There's not much to be immersed in.

Anyway, see for yourself.

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Impossible to listen. Unfit for an audio book

Revisado: 12-22-22

Let me start with a direct quote from this book
> Still, as one of the ship Minds that had been involved at the sharp end of the Idiran war a thousand years earlier and not gone into a profound retreat, a group-mind or the wilder shores of Eccentricity, the Mind within the Caconym understood that it constituted a kind of resource for the Culture, and grudgingly accepted that it had some sort of responsibility to play along.

Now try to read it back aloud. This sentence is hard to read even in the original written form, let alone when it's spoken back to you in an audio book.

I speak English fluently though I'm sure not a native speaker. Yet my level of language comprehension is quite high. But this title is barely readable. Such long complicated sentences are just painful to digest, let alone enjoy. On top of that the novel is context heavy. The author is using myriads of acronyms, abbreviations. Dialogs between ships go in super informal manner with little or zero exposition. Ship names are interrupted sentences.

...I could go on for few more paragraphs. In my mind this is a poorly edited novel. Yes it may have an interesting and engaging plot, but it's really hard to get through all these roadblocks emerged by the author.

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How come this book doesn't feature a PDF?

Revisado: 09-10-21

It's full of numerical data read from tables. I'm sure there are some graphs as well.

That's a very sloppy edition. I'm disappointed.

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Why was the presentation of Martin Silenus changed

Revisado: 05-04-21

This has completely ruined the character for me. I mean voice acting for the character differs greatly between 'Hyperion' and 'Fall of Hyperion'.

Here it makes the character flat w/o any depth. Turns him into a caricature of himself.

Otherwise it's a great book. Very different from the original novel, but great nevertheless.

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Nice story

Revisado: 12-06-17

As a follow up to The Marian this novel is targeted at a larger audience. It has properties that made the original great.

It is fun. Has great characters. Lots of action.

It is less geeky and follows some well defined path - a smuggler who’s heart is in a right place.

Rosario Dawson is superb at presenting the novel. One of the best narrations I’ve come across.

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Amazing story and stellar narrator's performance

Revisado: 07-09-15

What made the experience of listening to A Street Cat Named Bob the most enjoyable?

This story is perfect on so many levels. Treat yourself and read it through page by page. You'll get charged with emotions in no time.

What about Kris Milnes’s performance did you like?

Stellar performance. The best I've came across so far.

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Just do it!

Revisado: 05-31-15

Great systematic coverage of tools that can help you understand and master you body of knowledge.

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