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Been reading the Hyperion Cantos. On Endymion now. The books don't have the best writing but the story and world building are fantastic. It feels like the golden age of scifi with the constant silly technobabble and weird mixture of archaic culture, but it's a hard R rating. The first one is definitely the best so far. Basically a scifi version of Canterbury Tales, and the diversity of genres the different stories tell is fun. And the way it weaves questions an answers together keeps you hooked. Once the second book gets into timey wimey stuff my eyes kind of glazed over, but still great all around.

Only just started Endymion but I like that the heroes call to adventure is the Gandalf character randomly showing up and saying "You wanna be a hero? Here's my list of impossible tasks for you to save the universe. Now hit the road fuckstick."