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3.45 AVERAGE
3.45 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Mostly good. A little bloated in the front. This does seem a change of pace from Clarke's usual novels. Much more time is spent on characters and backstories (for better or worse). Strange characterization and lack of meaningful inclusion hurts the story some. I couldn't shake thinking a crew of this type would never be permitted to fly this mission together. When that is put aside, the mysteries of Rama make up for the abnormalities in the style. Worth reading.
I really enjoyed Rendezvous With Rama and was very excited to see what would happen when the next ship arrived in the solar system! What would the new set of explorers find especially when they had more time to prepare and somewhat knew what to expect?
I was anxious to see what new things would be discovered in the cylindrical world.
Too bad it took 100 pages to even get into space.
Too bad the characters spent more time discussing paper work and conspiracies that didn’t really go anywhere.
There were many ideas that I thought were interesting and fun!
But it was bogged down in endless discussions of what to do next.
A bit of a disappointment frankly compared to the first one.
A bit of a spoiler.
It was very strange to me that Nicole was so upset about the prospect of not seeing her daughter again (very understandable) but then she is very sanguine about being launched into interstellar travel.
I was anxious to see what new things would be discovered in the cylindrical world.
Too bad it took 100 pages to even get into space.
Too bad the characters spent more time discussing paper work and conspiracies that didn’t really go anywhere.
There were many ideas that I thought were interesting and fun!
But it was bogged down in endless discussions of what to do next.
A bit of a disappointment frankly compared to the first one.
A bit of a spoiler.
It was very strange to me that Nicole was so upset about the prospect of not seeing her daughter again (very understandable) but then she is very sanguine about being launched into interstellar travel.
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
If you were expecting this book to be anything like Rendezvous with Rama, then you may be dissapointed.
I jumped into this sequel excited to see what Clarke came up with next. However, my excitement dropped as I began reading and saw just how much influence Gentry Lee had on the story. It wasn’t that his influence was bad, it was just not the same style of factual and scientific writing that Clarke does. There was plenty more character introductions and development for the first half of the book, and only at the midway did the excitement begin. If this hadn’t been a Rama book, and it was written by Gentry Lee I could have seen myself loving it. But because I was expecting Clarke’s unique storytelling, it wasn’t as good as I would have liked it to be.
Although I didn’t enjoy this one as much as the first, I still did like how it ended and learning more about the amazing spacecraft, Rama!
I jumped into this sequel excited to see what Clarke came up with next. However, my excitement dropped as I began reading and saw just how much influence Gentry Lee had on the story. It wasn’t that his influence was bad, it was just not the same style of factual and scientific writing that Clarke does. There was plenty more character introductions and development for the first half of the book, and only at the midway did the excitement begin. If this hadn’t been a Rama book, and it was written by Gentry Lee I could have seen myself loving it. But because I was expecting Clarke’s unique storytelling, it wasn’t as good as I would have liked it to be.
Although I didn’t enjoy this one as much as the first, I still did like how it ended and learning more about the amazing spacecraft, Rama!
There was something stilted about the writing, almost like the equivalent of 'bad acting.' But I enjoyed learning a bit more about Rama and am left curious as to what comes next.
I liked this just about as much as the first one. Like its predecessor, the book is filled with questions and very few answers. I look forward to the next in the series.
3.8/5
3.8/5
Did not need to be written.
Needed even less to be read, because
a) The sense of mystery in the first book is lost by some pretty useless explanations in this one
b) Some VERY questionable moral angles here that don’t stand the test of time.
c) Nowhere near as well written
Needed even less to be read, because
a) The sense of mystery in the first book is lost by some pretty useless explanations in this one
b) Some VERY questionable moral angles here that don’t stand the test of time.
c) Nowhere near as well written
Not a patch on the original Rama, but still an enjoyable novel. I was considering whether I want to read more of these, but after such a difference between the first 2, I don't expect I'll bother with 3 & 4 for a while yet!
I think my main issue with this novel is that it's a sequel focusing on the characters, where the original was focused on the science and engineering of a megastructure.
I think my main issue with this novel is that it's a sequel focusing on the characters, where the original was focused on the science and engineering of a megastructure.
Written by Arthur C. Clarke together with Gentry Lee, Rama II is the sequel to Rendevous with Rama.
This is a dramatic story set to the hugely imaginative backdrop of Rama.
It took a while to get started, we didn't even arrive at Rama until a third into the book, but after that the story combined the setting of Rama with a dramatic plot, making the book unputtdownable during the last third.
This is a dramatic story set to the hugely imaginative backdrop of Rama.
It took a while to get started, we didn't even arrive at Rama until a third into the book, but after that the story combined the setting of Rama with a dramatic plot, making the book unputtdownable during the last third.