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This is like reading the Cliffs Notes for Stanley Kubrick's confusing film, a film which probably has received such acclaim precisely for being so darn enigmatic. The book starts off fairly mundane with workman-like prose. The farther our hero travels out into the mysterious uncharted universe, the denser becomes the writing. It's well-crafted to gradually draw the reader into the unknown. Quite an enjoyable journey!
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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
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