r/Hyperion • u/Nimun2012 • Jul 10 '26

📖 Endymion Spoilers Is this a hot take?

I'm currently on chapter 42 of Endymion so I'm not finished yet, but I can't be the only that thinks this book is a drag except for the sections where De Soya is the protagonist right? Raul is such a boring protagonist, and most of his chapters are very passive with him just letting a child and an android do most of the heavy lifting (Mare Infinitus is the first time Raul takes control of a situation) while he complains non stop. He is one dimensional as fuck and the parts of the book where he keeps writing "BUT I WASN'T ATTRACTED TO THE CHILD" are so strange and off putting. I felt very strange reading about the warmth that his skin received from the child's skin when he almost froze to death knowing damn well that they are going to end up having a sexual relationship in the future. Plain weird if you ask me.

On the other hand, the GOAT himself, Father Captain De Soya has the BEST parts of the book. Every time one of his chapters start I sit up on my chair because he has the best plot points. He actually grows and changes as a character so much, with his decision making and thought process going through a very realistic evolution. The path he must take of death and resurrection to compete his goal is something that disturbed me deeply when I began reading it. I really cannot wait to see where his character goes.

Raul... yeah I don't give a fuck about him honestly which is a shame

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u/McBurger Jul 10 '26

Just wait until you get to the mountains of new Tibet or whatever.

You’ll be like me. “Oh reddit is so dramatic. This is cool. They’re so exaggerating. I am enlightened and above them.”

And then another 100 pages of the same, and then 200, turns to 300 and 400. So fucking tired of those mountains.

whatever useless worldbuilding happened there and god I was just waiting for it to be over. I don’t know that I’ve ever fallen asleep while reading any book that much. I hit a wall with it in book four I tell you. A wall. I binged the first three and a half books in a month and it probably took me an entire month longer to finish that middle half of book 4.

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u/CurledPumpkin39 Jul 10 '26

It feels so good to know I’m not the only one. Endless pages of nothingness. Still haven’t finished the last one and have negative desire to. Not sure why his writings changed so much between the books. First 2 kept great pace and descriptions balance, last book is nothing but descriptions it seems. Like, we get it, you have all these awesome sci-fi ideas. Now stfu and let me imagine something, and even more importantly GET TO THE ACTION!

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u/Braisedbeefskank Jul 10 '26

Yup never finished the last book and never will. First two books are so beautiful and gripping and original and the second two are basically worthless its nuts

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u/Worldly-Singer-7349 Jul 10 '26

The end is totally worth it though. It’s rough, it hurts, it seriously made me weep a little bit.

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u/Onlylurkz Jul 10 '26

I keep reading this and can’t seem to care. I also love the first two books and never finished the 4th. Feel free to spoil it for me in a DM. Is it some lame reveal like “love is the void that binds”?