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rhonataylor22 's review for:
2001: A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke
I was really excited to read this, and at first it was definitely living up to my expectations. The first 70 pages or so were really great and if the rest had continued that way it would have definitely been five stars. However, things quickly got boring. There was just no characterisation. I know that the spacemen were meant to be a very specific type of person in order to cope with travelling so far, but the lack of feelings and motivations just made it difficult for me to care about them. What this book did have was whole lot of description of travels through space. I'm guessing you are meant to get a sense of the unending monotony that space travel brings, because I was definitely feeling drained. I haven't seen the film, and didn't know anything about the story before reading, but I was also disappointed by the ending. I really thought I'd love this, but it ended up being the longest 200 page book I've ever read. :(