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corymojojojo 's review for:
2001: A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke
Simply perfect. This is exactly why I love sci-fi and the feelings of wonder and mystery it can instill. Having seen the movie several times (and being a big fan), I was originally a bit hesitant to read the book because I felt as though I already knew the story and didn’t want to ruin Kubrick’s masterpiece. Well it turns out the book is just as much of a masterpiece, and in wonderfully different ways than the movie. The book paints a slightly different image of the greater beings who have been tinkering with mankind since before we could even be considered “Man,” and it includes some gaps that were not present in the film. The ending is also notably different (or perhaps simply more detailed) than the movie without losing that feeling of incomprehensible alien contact, which nearly doesn’t feel like the typical “first contact” at all. The writing is simple and elegant tells you just what you need to know.