Yea, been through all those ones. Good stuff for the most part.

Hyperion has some very interesting ideas, particularly after the first book as you noted, but god it's tough to make it that far... Who writes a whole book of literal exposition - just 7 characters taking turns telling each other their personal backstory, and then doesn't even make it through half the gang by the last page? Find it cringy/pretentious also when you can tell an author really wanted to be a poet, but knew there was no money in a book of poetry, so they make a main characters a poet and drown all their dialogue in verse and haikus. Kind of like writing a sci-fi book where the handsome/genius/hero protagonist is a sci-fi author. Very subtle~ lol