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Title: Rama Revealed by Arthur C. Clarke ISBN: 0-553-56947-3 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.47 (86 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A dissappointing end to the fabulous Rama series.
Comment: This book was littered with trivial melodramatic moments that continued the spiral of hopelessness cast by the previous Rama chapter.
Basically, if you finished the last book and are hoping this book's going to go anywhere better, sorry, it doesn't.
While the story was fantastically told and particularly spell-binding -- I literally stayed up way too late and got up way too early to finish the book in two days -- it is an entirely depressing account of how close minded most human beings are and how stubborn and ignorant they can be.
The magic/wonder of bewilderment that occurs with the discovery of the Octospiders' lives and of the Eagle can hardly make up for the majority of the story which is centered on the pain of human ignorance. I don't know about you, but I read sci-fi to expand my day dreams and move away from the base elements that make up our crude, TV-inflicted society.
All in all, the strengths of wonder, discovery, and self-qu!estioning that made up the first three Rama books are not at all present here... whereas the hopeless melodramatic downward spiral of the last book is flourished here in full force. Beware.
Rating: 4
Summary: Surprisingly Strong Finish
Comment: The subject title refers to both this book itself and the series as a whole. The entire drama with Nicole grew and evolved to become one of the central foci of the book. For that awesome scene at the end - and the realization of the meaning of the Universe - it almost deserves a "*****". But Nicole's other self seems so human like in her wants and desires. We got to this point and the authors seem to be saying, "OK, we know the secrets of the cosmos. What do we do now?"
I would have loved to have seen this idea in the hands of a Frank Herbert or a Pamela Sargeant.
Rating: 3
Summary: Marginally better than "Garden", yet still a disappointment
Comment: After the pathetic ending of "Garden of Rama" there really was nowhere to go but up. This book went up. Some. Not much.
The crisis situation in the human colony on Rama has been mitigated (and the humans are pretty pathetic); everyone goes to sleep again for a long, long time; Nicole is reunited with family members she never thought she'd see again (and a rather weak reunion it is, too!); a final "segregation" is made between the "good guys" and the "bad guys" based on a strange, Raman determination which preaches free choice on the one hand -- and no taking of personal responsibility for behavior on the other; -- AND Rama is revealed for what ACTUALLY is.
Again, Clarke and Lee delve into theological suppositions in which, frankly, they demonstrate that they are WAAAY over their heads. This was a serious mistake.
Finally, Nicole makes some choices at the end of the book -- which I won't spoil in this review -- which, frankly, reveal her to be as selfish and shallow as most of the rest of the characters -- a real disappointment.
Why the 3rd star? Because it was better than "Garden" which received 2!
My suggestion? Read "Rendevouz" -- and skip the rest of the series.
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Title: Rama II: The Sequel to Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee ISBN: 0553286587 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke ISBN: 0553287893 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke ISBN: 0345347951 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 May, 1987 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: 3001 The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke ISBN: 0345423496 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 28 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke ISBN: 055356871X Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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