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3.45 AVERAGE
3.45 AVERAGE
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Rendezvous with Rama with Rama is a classic, a great piece of Sci-fi that leaves you with a lot of questions. So naturally they wrote some sequels to try to answer those questions. So much of this book is the politic-ing, and history of the planet since the last Rama vessel visited. It crawls along with the crew on earth for a large chunk of the book, and then crawls along with “personality” conflicts and bureaucracy. Even though it tedious it lays the ground work for the intrigue towards the end of the book. The payoff comes when you’ve slugged through it all and finally get some twists and turns and action that you were totally not expecting.
challenging
dark
informative
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book feels rather different from Rendezvous with Rama.
For the first half, I wasn't sure that I actually liked the difference. Rather than the almost sterile science fiction that Clarke is better known for, the sequel deals a lot more with characters, drama, and to some extent matters of faith. It's especially interesting in how long it takes them to even get to Rama, especially compared to the first book.
Through the next quarter though, it really started picking up. I started to actually care about the characters and couldn't put it down. The feel of the ship, especially with some of the new findings, is just different enough that I wanted to know more.
At first, I wasn't sure that I was going to read the other two sequels. After this, I'm not sure how I couldn't.
For the first half, I wasn't sure that I actually liked the difference. Rather than the almost sterile science fiction that Clarke is better known for, the sequel deals a lot more with characters, drama, and to some extent matters of faith. It's especially interesting in how long it takes them to even get to Rama, especially compared to the first book.
Through the next quarter though, it really started picking up. I started to actually care about the characters and couldn't put it down. The feel of the ship, especially with some of the new findings, is just different enough that I wanted to know more.
At first, I wasn't sure that I was going to read the other two sequels. After this, I'm not sure how I couldn't.
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
slow-paced
awesome. just like the first Book but more rama stuff happens. I liked these characters more too.
I enjoyed the first book in the series, but this sequel, not so much. It was boring, it didn't have a whole lot to do with the storyline of the first book and it took me over three months to plod my way through it. I doubt I'll even bother reading the next two books in the series.
Some have said it was the use of the co-author that caused the dramatic shift in the tone of the stories and that could be the case. I never got interested in the story enough to even make that kind of judgment.
Some have said it was the use of the co-author that caused the dramatic shift in the tone of the stories and that could be the case. I never got interested in the story enough to even make that kind of judgment.