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2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
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New School Classics- 1915-2005
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Andrea
Dec 04, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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This one surprised me. Sci-fi and I are still in the early stages of getting to know each other. Some books in the genre leave me a little underwhelmed, and some just bore me. But then comes along 2001: A Space Odyssey and blows all my previous bad experiences to cosmic smithereens. I read somewhere that the novel has a lot of technical detail: movement in weightlessness, sensory reaction to hibernation, psychological impacts of being stuck in a tin can floating through the vast nothingness... I ...more
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Andreea
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It's more like a 4.5, but whatever! READ IT! ...more
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