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Summary: One of 'The Great Tales'
Review: This review concerns the whole Rama series, from 'Rendezvous' to 'Revealed'. I consider this series to be one of the great tales of our time. The concept is intriguing, to say the least. And while certain key questions are answered along the way, there remains a lot of unresolved mystery (as there should be in a tale like this). Each answered question poses at least three new ones: it's just like science. Rama may be revealed, but she's definitely not naked! Not everything is perfect, though. Clarke and Lee portray the human race as utterly xenophobic, totally paranoid, outright genocidal and undescribably stupid. While it's certainly true that we humans are doing a LOT of things wrong, I feel that the authors are over-emphasizing our destructive nature. This also leads to a certain predictability in the plot. That said, I think the series is a masterpiece, and I've read it from start to finish in one, long breath. Some will find the books to be on the 'soft' side, but I consider it to be SF of the highest level.
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Summary: Overall a great sequal - series!
Review: My rating applies to Ramas 2,3, and 4. Although the "loving family" stuff is a bit corny and so soap opera-ish, I liked how the series viewed human nature to war with the unknown. The end of this was very good, too. For those who complain of the smut in the series, the only difference beween this and other works by Clarke is it is more implied in the others. This was mostly science fiction. It successfully combines physics, biology, chemistry, etc. True Clarke!
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Summary: Pure Clarke-enlightening through the last page
Review: If you have not read the other books in this series, read them first. An essential experience to the reader is character development, which begins in Rama II. To those who have read the previous books of the series, do not miss the opportunity to experience Nicole's life again. This was the first book that brought tears to my eyes because of the simplicity of its message. We are all capable of doing so much good. The purpose of life is to live. As far as the plot is concerned, Nicole and her family are hunted after, not by alien species, but the human beings aboard Rama. Another Node is introduced, and the purpose of the universe is finally revealed. In the end, the humans that had boarded Rama demonstrate the essential wickedness of mankind, yet the sympathy, daring, and heart that embodies Nicole makes up for all of it. Read this book.
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Summary: Future reviewer reviewing here.
Review: I was asked (by a friend) to write a review for this book. I have not written other reviews for other books because I have wanted to read all of the other books in the series first. I'm going to write all of the bad points in the book, because I could go ON and ON about the good points. The aliens in this book were all related on Earth-based animals. There are simply some things that humans cannot relate to, or have any comprehending of. Clarke does not acknowledge this, and although the symbios relationship between the Octospiders and their enviroment was facinating, and the sessile, and myrmicats was intresting although a bit exaggerated. The aging relationship between Nicole Wakefield and Richard Wakefield got boring after the first 100 pages. Katie did not officaly enter the story until about 150-200 pages. This bothered me because I expected more of an exaggeration on her, which I would have liked. "And this, Katie Wakefield, is for what you did to yourself." That is a "big" line in the book, but kept right out of an old silent movie. Ellie being genectly altered by the "splint colony" was an easy way to get out of "writers block". It really got to my nerves. Eponine really didn't have much of a character. In Emerald City, the octospider's home, no human would really allow living creatures to crawl inside of them! Even in the future. Those are the main things I found that really got to me.
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Summary: All we ever hoped for!
Review: This is the final chapter of one of the greatest sf books ever written. Amazing how RAMA changed and evolved into one little Earth. The Book shows how Humanity can really screw things up and just gives the credits to Hobbes, who once said " Man is the wolf of Man". This is the only book that made me cry. I got so attached to the characters, living in Rama with them, that at some point,(and will know which) I got terribly depressed. Nevertheless, read it, and starting thinking about your role in the Universe.
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Summary: This Book was great.
Review: The book Rama Revealed was one of the best books of the series. It, at least breifly, went over the past events of Nicole's life. In some places, it evoked stronger emotions than all of the others. Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee expandend on the characters even more. I think that the ending is kind of This was an all around great book.
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Summary: Heart wrenching. But disappointing.
Review: The characters that you grew to love in Rama II and The Garden of Rama are now grown and Nicole Des Jardins an old woman, when Rama docks with a gigantic alien tetrahedron. The emotion that soaks this book is heart wrenching, and beautiful. But, I must say I'm a little disappointed, and insulted. It's like a detective mystery in which the answer to who did it is, "God did it." I feel slightly cheated.
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Summary: A satisfying conclusion to the Rama series
Review: I've just finished a marathon reading of the Rama series, and I liked this one the best. The original (RWR) asked many questions and gave few answers and I felt the characters were all 2 dimensional. The middle two books (especially Rama II) dragged in parts but were all build up to Rama Revealed - where indeed almost all the questions are answered. -Very creative aliens and a somewhat original purpose for the universe (explained near the very end) - Overall, a very enjoyable conclusion to a good series.
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Summary: Science Fiction "Reality" at it's best.
Review: What an absolutely fabulous book. Like all the other books in the "Rama Series" it had my imagination running in "over drive" from the very first chapter. Arthur C. Clarke / Gentry Lee have caught the essence of SF, although we are reading about something classified as SF, I feel that one never looses the sense of reality, as I can always find a foot-hold in the (human) characters that is so "us" and "everyday life" (ignorance, intrigue, war, drugs, etc., will we never change?). I truly hope that this series will continue in some way, I just hope that some-one will represent the Human Race like Nicole, Richard and their Family.
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Summary: Bravo for giving us a noble, Black female, Sci-Fi heroine.
Review: Bravo for Clarke's seamless use of characters of many racial (and galactic) backgrounds. Nicole, the Black heroine is very believable as she seeks to understand her ever changing conditions and survive in an alien world. The detailed explanations are sometimes a bit much, but lend themselves to understanding as the story unfolds. Only one other Sci Fi author, Octavia Butler, has given us rich characters of African descent. It is meaningful to those of us who live in a multi ethnic world to see that visionaries of the future see a place for all of us. A thought provoking, enjoyable story!
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