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Aromasin | 3 days ago

Wow. I picked up a copy of Hyperion this morning while taking a random stroll through town - something I rarely do during a work day anymore. I popped into a book shop on a complete whim, and picked it up as it had been on my list for a while. The coincidence feels deeply uncanny.

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Loughla|3 days ago

Do yourself a favor and get the audiobook after you read the physical book. It is, hands down, the best audiobook ever made. By far and away.

matthewsinclair|2 days ago

Totally agree with this, too! The books are great and I’ve read all four a few times over, but the audiobooks are something else. The guy who reads them manages to strike a near perfect balance between “reading” and “acting” that is just such a pleasure to listen to. I think we must have listened to it beginning to end about another three or four times as a family during long car trips!

Kaibeezy|3 days ago

I started reading it for the first time this week. It’s just a statistical anomaly… but humans are wired to notice and feel coincidence; it connects us to space and time in a way that must have helped make religion more believable.

bookofjoe|3 days ago

"Coincidence is a glimpse of the scaffolding of reality."

I read that many years ago, forgot the source.

brownsound202|3 days ago

Hope you come back to this memory when they discuss the void that binds.

occz|3 days ago

And I just finished The Rise of Endymion a few days ago. Uncanny indeed.