Luckily I'm a statistic of the current world economic downturn! Due to being jobless I've had plenty of time to devote to this massive tome! I recommend it highly! This this is absolutely fantastic! Hell, quit your job and/or take time off to read it... you won't be sorry!

At first I thought the trilogy would make a great movie but, now that I'm halfway done with the third book, I don't think a movie is big enough. It would be much better as a
TV/direct to DVD or download series.

As a matter of fact, reading this book has me pulling out my old Babylon 5 DVDs and imagining The Night's Dawn in a 5 year story arc like B5 was! Now THAT would be something! I'd pay for that... wouldn't you?

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SPOILERS – Don't read any further unless you want to know how the story ends – SPOILERS

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OK. I loved the books. No complaints. I just want to point out the fact that the conclusion is a classic deus ex machina. As definded by the Wikipedia:

A deus ex machina (literally "god from the machine") is a plot device in which a person or thing appears "out of the blue" to help a character to overcome a seemingly insolvable difficulty. It is generally considered to be poor storytelling technique.

In this case, of course, the machine appears out of the black rather than blue but why quibble! Now personally I don't see this as a problem. The story is littered with other non sequiturs, anachronisms, and ironic situations as well as scattered references to other science fiction stories (witness the appearance of the starship Enterprise a couple of times!) that I just took it in stride that the conclusion would be so perfectly classic and tongue-in-cheek. I was laughing and crying at the same time as, due to the god-machine, everyone (even Quinn Dexter!) lives happily ever after! YAY! I loved it so well I ran out and bought the first volume of his latest trilogy! Bring it on! ( )

Hamilton wavers only very, very slightly in pace, plot, character, inventiveness, and social and scientific speculation over three enormous volumes. The very adept mingling of genres on top of all this is pretty astounding - definitely a re-read, if I can just persuade my managers to give me that extended holiday... ( )

1st off I gave this a try because a few people recommended it on the Amazon Kindle Discussion board. I generally love Sci-Fi and the price was right, $7.99 for all three books on my Kindle. What I didn't realize was that all three books have a total page count north of 3,600 pages! Yikes. So I plunged into this trilogy.

Wow. A space trilogy on a grand stage. While this book was longer than the other two, it was well worth the read. While you can see that the Naked God was going to be part of the final solution, the solution comes out of left field. I like the way the character grew as their situations call upon them to.

This trilogy is highly recommended, but it comes with an investment in time. ( )

This was a pretty silly book. Last part of the Reality Dysfunction trilogy (preceeded by THE REALITY DYSFUNCTION and THE NEUTRONIUM ALCHEMIST), I think the concept is to try and imagine what sort of science might exist that would validate the immortal Christian soul. So, right there, this is NOT really science fiction, more like fantasy.
Hamilton's later books about the Confederation universe are not quite so preposterous. I do not recommend this, unless Dan Simmons is your favourite author. ( )

Possessed planet nicking problem means captain's alien deity quest.

With the propensity for large groups of possessed to take over planets and then piss off with them so no-one can take their bodies back from them becoming a serious problem, the alien Tyrathca may have led them to a solution.

In the past a serious space entity may have helped them out, and this is what our heroes want to try and find to see if it can do the same thing for them, while others try and deal with the crazed cult killers and other problems, and make some discoveries about the origins of the Confederation split into the bargain.

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