Rama Revealed (Bantam Spectra Book)
by Arthur C. Clarke
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Read in April, 2000
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The final chapter in the "RAMA Saga" ends with a whimper, and not the beautiful kind that Yeats spoke of. Instead, it ends with revelations that lift ideas from Clarke's short stories.
I suppose this isn't such a sin since Clarke himself lifted entire sections of some novels out of his short stories. For instance, Clarke reproduced his short story "Meeting with Medusa" almost verbatium as a chapter in 2010: Odyssey Two. So, I'll forgive it.
However, the final revel...more
I suppose this isn't such a sin since Clarke himself lifted entire sections of some novels out of his short stories. For instance, Clarke reproduced his short story "Meeting with Medusa" almost verbatium as a chapter in 2010: Odyssey Two. So, I'll forgive it.
However, the final revel...more
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Read in May, 2008
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Overall, the series was fairly enjoyable, but the conclusion was a bit of a let down after three thick installments. Many questions were left unresolved, and some of the trite relationships were overplayed at that point. It may have helped if the authors had, instead of glomming onto Nicole des Jardins/Wakefield at the end of the second installment, moved onto other characters, like Michael O'Toole, her daughter Katie, or the Watanabe twins. I would not recommend the series to anyone who is n...more
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Read in January, 2008
Read the first book in this series and don't waste your time with the rest. This fourth in the series was a slog from beginning to end, with lots of lame dialogue, pointless detail that never goes anywhere, and a disappointing ending.
I wish I'd just left it at Rendezvous with Rama, which is vintage Arthur C. Clarke. (That book is worth 20 of these sequels!) Lesson Learned: Never trust a book with more than one author.
I wish I'd just left it at Rendezvous with Rama, which is vintage Arthur C. Clarke. (That book is worth 20 of these sequels!) Lesson Learned: Never trust a book with more than one author.
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Read in July, 2007
I liked this end to this series better than the book before it. There is some interesting stuff about the structure of an alien society in here built on speculation about the future of genetic engineering. The part where Rama is revealed is pretty nifty and philosophical, too. Thankfully, there were much fewer flashbacks, but the book/series could have used stronger secondary characters.
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Read in February, 2008
This was a real let down after the other books in the series. While the book answered a lot of questions the answers weren't really satisfying. Clarke usually doesn't answer many questions in his novels but and I think I like that approach much more. The book just went on and on without really going anywhere interesting.
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YES. If you have slogged through the last 9000 or so pages of this series, I tip my hat, and hopefully you have the same fealing of joy I do. This is how a concluding novel is supposed to be written....like a 100 page fucking climax. boo ya.
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Read in January, 2000
Long time since I read this but I remember it was by far the best in the series. Must have read it three of four times now. Very detailed and intriguing storyline. It just confirmed to me how savage a race we have the propensity to be.
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The series started out with such a fascinating premise but it all ended with sex, violence, corruption and misunderstandings. I guess that's the message of the series: humans will always screw up Eden. Bummer!
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Read in January, 2007
This book is lllooooonnnnggggg ... I do not mean in pages, but is not the most exciting book in the universe. It though a nice ending to a cool series.
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Read in October, 2005
Recently reread this series for the first time since I was a kid. They hold up remarkably well. All four in the series are excellent.
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Read in January, 2001
recommends it for:
science nerds
Either the series or I lost steam by the 4th book, I'm not sure which. I don't think I ever made it to the end of this one.
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Read in August, 1998
Kind of anticlimactic.
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Read in January, 2000
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everyone speciallllyyyy teens
lovelyyy!!!
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