The Hollow Man

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  I enjoyed this novel, Simmons here brings up several important points about life itself and its meaning and deals with this topics in a superb way.
  Though, I'm not sure I've fully understood the final... X-D

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  Gingillo said on May 25, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  This book suffers from two fundamental problems: its plot is at the same time insane and very dull; and the flow is interrupted far too often by complicated chapters with mathematical theories. In the end the sensation I got is one of a big WTF!?

  I really failed to understand the reason behind cert ... (continue)

  This book suffers from two fundamental problems: its plot is at the same time insane and very dull; and the flow is interrupted far too often by complicated chapters with mathematical theories. In the end the sensation I got is one of a big WTF!?

  I really failed to understand the reason behind certain episodes: the nymphomaniac with iron prosthesis who tries to cut the main character's penis with a bite??? Really? Why? What was the purpose of those 50 pages in the economy of the books? Are you freaking insane Mr. Simmons? I am not against violence in books. But violence needs to be functional to the story. Here it is just a big mess, an expose of the author's erotic violent dreams, put together with the a pathetic excuse of destiny and reality.

  I would have really liked the underlying issue of this book (what is real?), but this was a very boring, ugly and sick book in the end.

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  Demonio Pellegrino said on Jan 31, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• starts in a dramatic, very effective way, then turns into some kind of third-rate mafia story, then into horror, then into nothing at all.</p><p>dan simmons, like in Hyperion, seems unable to keep the pace of the beginning and eventually (sooner in Hollow Man than in its predecessor) los ... (continue)

  starts in a dramatic, very effective way, then turns into some kind of third-rate mafia story, then into horror, then into nothing at all.</p><p>dan simmons, like in Hyperion, seems unable to keep the pace of the beginning and eventually (sooner in Hollow Man than in its predecessor) loses control of the story, the characters and the credibility of it all. which is tantamount to saying that this book is better left untouched.

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  crus said on Oct 16, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Others 312 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0747279403
• ISBN-13: 9780747279402
• Pub date: Nov 12, 1992
• Also available as: Paperback

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