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    <body><![CDATA[I was disappointed in this book, though I confess that part of it is my fault.  Clarke didn't tell the story that I wanted him to tell, and this is always an unfair expectation on the part of the reader.  &quot;If you want a particular story, you should write it yourself.&quot; is the rightful reply...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25102200">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[4.5 stars. Definitely one of Clarke's best novels, which is saying something given his tremendous body of work. The novel, as most of Clarke's work, was respectful of the scientific basis required for the story but never let itself get bogged down in overly long technical explanations. A superb stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30255208">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books and I come back to it yearly.  I love new technologies and when I read about one that is years in advance of it's time, I get a feeling.  I don't know when anyone is going to build a space elevator.  The best thing about this story is it is about more than just the S...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42544400">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't you just love Arthur C. Clarke? I certainly do.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Embarrassing enough, this book is what inspired me to persure engineering. It's a fun story of an engineer's attempts to &quot;elevate&quot; humanity.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my absolute favorite sci-fi books.  In it, Arthur C. Clarke tells the story of two great men, one an ancient king and the other an engineer in the not-too-distant future.<br/>In addition to the wonderful characters and story, this book features some of the earliest thinking about bui...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70460196">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a fan of Buckminster Fuller's world-changingly-big ideas for future human housing and transportation, so this book was right up my alley. Arthur C. Clarke tells the story of the construction of a &quot;space elevator&quot; and couches his suspenseful, fun narrative in a rich, invented history th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63622495">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My least favorite Clarke novel to date.  The detail about the space elevator is very, very boring.  It would be a cheap way to get up into space if it were possible (with nanotechnology it could be in the future), but it is just not interesting enough to build a whole novel around it.<br/><br/>If ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40519670">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Various concepts show up as supporting material in multiple Arthur C. Clarke novels. Two prominent ones are asteroid impact and the space elevator. For instance, the space elevator shows up in <em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63432.3001_The_Final_Odyssey" title="3001 The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke">3001</a>.</em> But <em>The Fountains of Paradise</em> is where the space elevator gets the full-length treatment. Yet, that i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59330295">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ol' Art tries to stretch a little at the end to make this book a little deeper than it can really go.  If he's honest with himself, he'd admit it was a book about building an elevator to the moon.  He tries to tack on some insight about the main character's fall being caused by the audacity of his c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48770209">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is the first arthur c clarke book that i remember reading. it's possible i've read others but i don't think so. it was a good, solid sci fi book. i wouldn't say it was spectacular but it was definitely a solid read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Clarke spent his last years on Sri Lanka, the setting of this novel which depicts the technologically possible creation of a space elevator.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the 1st Clarke novel I'd read after a long hiatus of decades.  It's got the usual dominant-male-pursues-impossible-dream type plot.  I actually like that sort of thing sometimes - esp if the &quot;impossible dream&quot; is compelling.  In this case, it's a giant 'elevator' from a sacred mou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19723893">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably one of my favorite Clarke books.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[SF in Clarke's overwhelm-them-with-technical-detail.  At the end of this book you almost feel you could build a 26,000 kilometre high tower yourself....<br/><br/> ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a good read.  The science, was, of course, excellent, as were the handful of main characters.  But the plot kind of fell apart at the end, leaving the book to kind of just fizzle out, with a bit of pro-space-elevator flag waving.  Read this one from the library, right before it's due, so you ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28105717">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Space-elevator yarn—or ribbon, to borrow the novel's idiom—is your typical visionary Arthur C. Clarke specimen hobbled by the author's typically wooden characters and dialog. Nevertheless, the ideas alone are worth the slog, and it's a quick read despite the intermittent and unnecessary forays i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12280957">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fine example of the pure mastery that was Arthur C Clarke. He left his mark on liturate with everyone of his stories and his spirit lives on through his life's work. Stimulating both scientists and dreamers he has had and will always have a profound impact on the way we view the universe around (a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32212263">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Arthur C. Clarke once wrote a rather dull short story, which just happened to suggest the idea of geostationary satellites over 20 years before there were any. This is a rather dull novel, which presents a detailed plan for building a space elevator.<br/><br/>Well, I hope history repeats itself......]]></body>
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