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Summary: bleh - mundane writing, boring & unbelievable characters,
Review: oh the horrors of poor writing. Plodding through "Rama Revealed" was a wate of my time and I won't be wasting any more on it. My recommendation is to skip it, I couldn't get past 25% of this book. Off the top of my head, read a good Greg Bear SF novel instead.
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Summary: I understand!
Review: Not!
OK. I did like the octospiders. Didn't buy the "revelation", still didn't buy humans so totally self destructive. Wonder what the Precursors looked like. God using technology? Kind of knocks God down to the human level that a deity needs technology - certainly a contradiction of the inherent qualities of God. (Now a god, maybe.)
A little inconsistency on the octos- a mistake means you are no longer useful? (Hercules) Never answered the question on Nicole's unique genetic qualities.
Having read the 2nd and third books in the series, I do think this was better than those, but absolutely none holds a candle to the first.
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Summary: Boredom, Enforced
Review: Shallow, one-dimensional characters, an artifically convoluted plot that never satisfactorily resolves, and bombastic writing of the sort best edited with a shredder. What more could one ask for? Why, sententious spiritual pretensions, of course!
This is the sort of reading that makes you think longingly of scrubbing the bathtub grout with bleach and a baby toothbrush. I look at my stack of Rama books as I would five empty Pringle's cans - with a combination of nausea and self loathing.
Clark should be spanked, Lee caned, and the publisher fined.
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Summary: Possibly the worst conclusion to a SF series ever
Review: I can't think of another series that started with so much promise and ended as such a dud. It's a shame that Arthur C. Clarke allowed his name to be attached to this. Clearly this Gentry Lee co-author person carried the bulk of the writing on this installment and it just wasn't up to Clarke's caliber. The plot, the premise, the writing, the "I can't think of any real answer to all of the Rama questions so I'll just wave my hands and make up some religious mysticism" - what a dud.
No matter how much you loved previous Rama books, you don't want to read this. Re-read the first book or two and make up your own ending. Anything you can construct will be better than this.
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Summary: Simply put, the best sci-fi series ever...
Review: I have a different take than most of the people who have reviewed this series. Most people seem to think that the first Rendezvous with Rama was the best of the series, and that the series went downhill from there. I think the first book was the weakest in all regards, and the series only got better. Rama Revealed was a masterpiece.
The character development is the one of the many pieces that made this series so phenomenal. Now I'm generally not into touchy-feely or corny plots, but the characters and situations in this series felt so real, it was one of the first times that I've read a book and actually cared about the characters.
Rama Revealed is the perfect end to this series. At first I was disappointed with the explanation given for the node, Rama, and the purpose of the Universe, but I think if Clarke had given us concrete answers (like the Ramans are a really really advanced species, even more so than the octospiders), it wouldn't have left such an impression on me. Its the mystery that makes this story stick in your mind for years to come. (I read the series a few years ago, and just re-read it.)
The hero, Nicole Jes Jardins Wakefield, was the best character of the lot. Like another reviewer said, if there was somebody I could choose to represent the human species, it is her. At the end, I felt like I had lost somebody that I had known and loved for ages. This, coming from a guy who takes pride in not feeling bad when a character dies in a book, "its just a story, I can't feel sad because I know it isn't real", really shows you how deeply attached you become to the characters, and is a testament to Clarke's genius.
So bottom's up to Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee. I really have no idea the extent to which Lee contributed to this series, but however it is these two men collaborated on it, it worked. This series is a must read, and is, in my humble opinion, the best sci-fi series ever written.
I smell a movie quadrilogy...
Rating:
Summary: Excellent!
Review: oh the horrors of poor writing. Plodding through "Rama Revealed" was a wate of my time and I won't be wasting any more on it. My recommendation is to skip it, I couldn't get past 25% of this book. Off the top of my head, read a good Greg Bear SF novel instead.
Rating: 
Summary: Surprisingly Strong Finish
Review: 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: 
Summary: Marginally better than "Garden", yet still a disappointment
Review: 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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Summary: space age soap opera
Review: rendezvous with rama rocked big time. Gentry lee destroys the other three sequels... the storyline becomes progressively worse . things becmae so bad and boring that I couldnt even read the last book and a half properly.. i just skipped through the pages and belive me it was boring .. boring.. boring... more like a melodramatic soap opera on cable tv J
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