http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 30524.html

Far be it from me to prejudge someone's eligibility for things, but this guy? OK.

Great that they are going to be filmed - hard to see how. I'd have thought the first novel, particularly, to be more suited to a TV series.

I can't even follow this - one film? Two? One film of the first two books? three? Bueller?

The fourth one was boring to me. I liked the first three.

It seems like it will be like Watchmen -- each of them tell their story, it will be a deep flashback.

Hyperion was the book that had the girl aging backwards, right? I couldn't understand how that could work.

I think the first is far and away the best of them, but was interested to see what he did in the second book with the earlier characters and of course da poet. And I couldn't get my head around the time tombs, and the aging backwards girl, at all but I thought he dealt with it - at least the emotional effects of it in the father - quite well. I loved the cruciform things and the whole development of the religion together with the fatline connections, but it was a little bit TOO ambitious eventually. Still a great read for at least two books, though...

Shows how out of touch with science fiction I've gotten over the last couple of decades. I've never even HEARD of these books. Sounds like a manga/anime title to me. Or just maybe a Robert Ludlum title.

This is kind of how I felt about everything.

The third one was much appreciated because I was starved for another installment, and I liked the way that they had introduced interstellar travel using the cruciforms to regrow splattered humans. The story was a little different, and it had that female that could fight the Shrike.

You know, Ilium was even better in my book, but it was also too ambitious, and unraveled in the sequel. And I think it was based on the same concept as Hyperion (with regard to literature affecting the Universe).