Hyperion

This story is well written, but it has the following drawbacks:1. A high pain level throughout. I was able to get through it once, but it was such an unpleasant experience that I don't want to do it ever again.2. This book and [b:The Fall of Hyperion 77565 The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2) Dan Simmons https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1541174620l/77565.SY75.jpg 1882596] are one long story in two parts. If you want to find out what's going on, you have to read both.3. After I dragged myself through both books and got some kind of explanation of it all, it turned to be not very plausible either in outline or in detail. So I went through all that for nothing, basically.4. The story is set in the 29th century. Although the society it describes is indeed different from ours, it seemed to me no more than one or two centuries' worth of difference.