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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
Intelligent, well-written, and delightfully anti-theist. In the end it's pretty boring, however.
adventurous
challenging
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Having read "2001" earlier this year and having been not totally impressed, I wanted to try something else by Clarke. I told my husband, who has also recently finished the book, that it felt like Clarke wanted to write an essay about a space elevator and tacked on a narrative to give the book some suspsense. While that sounds like a harsh critique, I still did like the book. It was an easy, breezy read. I'm glad I kept giving Clarke a try because I ended up reading "Childhood's End" a few years later and really enjoyed it.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Not nearly as good as the first Rama book or Childhood's End, but enjoyable and thought-provoking.
Nice technical details, but I found this story quite boring. I bought the audiobook (since I got the book on a big sale), and I found my mind constantly wandering while the story unfolded. Maybe my attention would have been held better if I read it myself, but I don't remember having this much trouble with any other audiobooks.
There’s a ridiculous amount going on in this book. And yet, not a a whole lot happens, from a different point of view. I quite enjoyed it!
I tried. I really did. The writing was fine, but the story wasn't going anywhere. I got something like 100 pages in and had to just give up and move onto greener pastures. It hurt, a bit, since I do like Arthur C. Clarke well enough. But there's only so much time, and so many books. If you give it a shot I hope you have better luck with it!
because politics is the art of the possible, it appeals only to second-rate minds. For the first-raters, he claimed, are only interested in the impossible.