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    <body><![CDATA[2001: A Book Review<br/>By, Kirk Brown<br/><br/>	I did not think that the ending was effective. It was weird and had nothing to do with the next book. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clark ended after Dave, the last survivor of the Discovery, was transformed into a mass of energy by alien tech...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48697566">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ช่วงนี้บ้า Sci-fi อ่านซีรี่ย์ Space Odyssey จบแล้วก็เศร้า ปู่ Clarke ไม่น่ารีบตายเลย<br/>อีกไม่รู้กี่ปีถึงจะมีนักเขียนที่เก่...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80532450">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[	My older brother introduced me to the movie 2010 when I was a kid, and 2001: A Space Odyssey was a boring joke between my friends. I read 2010: Odyssey Two in High School, learned to appreciate and enjoy 20001 in my early twenties, and shortly afterward read the book. I enjoyed it, and after readin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74482548">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[***Minor spoilers in Paragraph 3***<br/><br/>This is the kind of book that, if I had read it when I was younger, would have inspired my wholehearted awe; would have made me love science fiction.  Reading it now is still impressive, for though I will always be more of a fantasy fan, I can appreciat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69740700">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this as a break from a much weightier read I'm in the middle of (Winston Churchill's six-volume <em>The Second World War</em>).  It is a very interesting read and one of the better sci-fi books I've read.<br/><br/>I didn't realize until I read this book that it was written with the express purpose o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65213140">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an odd case of one needing to read the book to understand the movie, because it is far from self-explanatory. In the movie you don't understand what the obelisk is, and Stanley Kubrick is no <br/>help whatsoever! The first obelisk is a teacher that helps ape-like ancient man make the leap t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59898042">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[2001: A Space Odyssey is a beautifully crafted novel. Clarke ventures billions of miles into the Solar System and describes every moment of the adventure with such brilliant detail, which makes the reader completely escape into parts of the universe never traveled. A very optimistic future of lunar ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64613635">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I started reading this, it held my attention yet didn't provide any OMG moments. The end, however, was quite different.<br/><br/>There were definite crests of interest in the beginning, the first being when an alien being? ship? lands on prehistoric Earth and directs the-ape men to evolve int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42832440">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Good: This book is beautiful. It's a funny way to describe a book, and usually I get a little bored if an author tries to get too descriptive, but I found this book beautiful and the scenes it painted in my mind were powerful and uplifting. <br/><br/>Most Sci-Fi is just fantasy set in outer sp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57824351">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not usually a fan of science-fiction, but this was a really good read, really exciting, engaging and interesting.  In fact, it's probably the only sic-fi book I've read and not really had any hang-ups about.<br/><br/>The story begins with prehistoric, prehuman man-apes and how they are affected ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79787275">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've never watched the movie -shame on me- so maybe that colors some of my appreciations on the book. I imagine a lot of the scenes in the book where written with the movie in mind, given that script and book where written at the same time, and thus seem more like descriptions of beautiful ambiance ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77105427">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I don't know why this novel is on the 1001 Books To Read Before You Die list. Maybe because it has had some impact on SciFi literature. There was a lot of detail and description throughout the novel. Then suddenly, it rushes down towards the end faster and faster with less description and ends...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80051860">more...</a>]]></body>
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