Rating: 
Summary: TERRIBLE!
Review: When I was half-way through Rama II, I was loving it. So I bought Garden and this. Both together are maybe worth 50 cents. The only reason I gave this a 2 and not a 1 was that the first two sections are sort of scientific about the Octos. But the rest is WAY to full of sex and violence. I mean, see if you can give Richard Wakefield a more violent death why don't you Mr. Gentry Lee? If you do, I might throw up instead of just feeling like I would. And what's this with Katie? She was my favorite character in the first half of Garden. Now she is a hopless drug addict and a manager of PROSTITUTES! Do you think you can make an even more deteriorated character Mr. Gentry Lee? (more throwing up) As I said in my review of Garden, let me spare you from this awful book: New Eden deteriorates. The Wakefields and a few friends go to live with the Octos. New Eden declares war on the Octos. The Ramans prevent the war and Rama III arrives at the node (after Richard is executed for trying to stop the war). Nicole starts having heart attacks and dies after learning this: God created the universe. He created the nodes, Ramas, and all that stuff, to learn about evolution so He can make every sub-atomic particle in the universe achieve complete harmony. (Laugh, Laugh) Bottom Line: Name any book you hate. This one's worse
Rating:
Summary: Has Arthur C Clark lost all of his talent?
Review: Please, God, don't read this book... sorry, I forgot that God was a petty, self-serving egotist who would happily destroy our universe if we fail to dedicate ourselves to mindless worship. Rendezvous with Rama was a classic, breath-taking work that allowed your mind to wander and wonder through a marvelous adventure. Each of the sequels got progressively worse until you find yourself wondering if Clarke's advanced age finally got him fearing his own mortality. The emotions left at the conclusion of this book were anger and disappointment.
Rating: 
Summary: One the most disappointing books ever.
Review: Better by far than the third book in the series, this non-conclusive conclusion still disappoints on many levels. Like many others I have learned to avoid the name Gentry Lee while brousing the bookshelves. My advice: read the first book, Rendezvous with Rama and avoid the rest. Your imagination is better equipped to write the rest of the story than Mr. Lee ever was
Rating: 
Summary: Fantabulous - And interesting too...
Review: I would have rated it an 11, but that is not an option. This book quickly grabs the attention of the reader, and pulls them in to a world of scientific wonder and imagination. Clarke uses his scientific background extremely well by incorporating real physical questions and answers in this series. It's definitely a set of books worth the money, and worth any amount of time reading. Thank you Arthur C. Clarke
Rating:
Summary: Un-Concluded Conclusion?
Review: As with the other reviews of Rama Revealed, the book was excellent and since I am a fast reader, I loved the length of the book, and series.
The only thing that I didn't love (I really liked it, thats why it got a 9 not a 10), was the ending.
It doesn't sum everything up. Of course you lose the main characters, (some), but there could be a whole series with the remaining.
What happened with Simone and General O'Toole all the years that Nicole was gone? What are they going to do now?
What goes on with Patrick and Nai on the Carrier?
What are Ellie, Max, Benjy, Dr. Blue, and the other humans, Octospiders, Avians, etc... doing on the Node with the Eagle?
The ending is not satisfactory. In fact, I think it may be the conclusion of the "Rama" series, but not the conclusion about the characters. You could go on forever.
I hope more books come to explain what happens. I didn't give to much of the ending away (I hope, but some people will still think I did), so if you want to discuss my opinions email me
Rating:
Summary: I liked it. No major complaints.
Review: Clarke is great at creating alien worlds and giving great
detail about their technology. During Rama II and the Garden of Rama I felt like Nicole Des Jardins and Richard were just too ridiculous and far fetched. But in this one I finally grew to love the characters. I like the octospider city and the Raman world as well. I thought it was reasonably fast paced and not predictable. The length is a little long, but it is worth it. I didn't like the ending as much, but I don't want to give anything away. I works, but I would have prefered another conclusion.
Rating:
Summary: An excellent conclusion
Review: The only thing keeping this book from getting a 10 was its
length. At 602 pages, it took some time. Notwithstanding this, it didn't seem as long as the equally good, but a little
shorter, Garden of Rama. My only regret to reading this is that I now know the true purpose of the craft. It almost
trivializes the mysterious air of the first and best book
in the series, Rendezvous with Rama. A great book, nevertheless
Rating:
Summary: bleh - mundane writing, boring & unbelievable characters,
Review: oh the horrors of poor writing. i read the first book in this series perhaps 15+ years ago or so, and the other two in the series a few years after that when they were released. perhaps my memory has fogged up a little, but i recall the first novel as a great read. i picked up this last one figuring that i might as well find out how it all ends, despite vaguely distasteful memories of the 3rd book. what a mistake! like a previous reviewer stated, i agree that Gentry Lee seems to have ruined everything that was great about the concept and story in this series. Perhaps I have read many better written books in the intervening years, but I've always recalled Arthur C Clarke as a fairly good writer. So who does the writing for this book?? In a word, the writing style is amateurish. I have read college essays better and more interestingly written than this book. The characters and story are bland and boring. The plot, pathetically simplistic. You feel as if ths story just taking you from plot pt A to pt B to C with no particularly convincing motivation behind it all. Characters are very two dimensional and unbelievable and events are just glossed over. I fail to understand why potentially intersting events are summarized in a sentence while entire chapters are devoted their day to day mundane activities. Reading weblogs online is more exciting than this book! 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: Okay, let's be realistic here.
Review: Will people please stop comparing this book to "Rendezvous with Rama"? Of COURSE the 3 sequels in this series aren't the original. Let's move past that. When I read Rama II, I was disappointed in many ways, but pleased in others. ACC is fantastic at what he does, but character development isn't it. So I was happy to have characters with some sort of depth to them. Sadly, these characters seem to lose depth with time. (Aside: Why is it that middle-aged scifi authors always write about exotic women with French accents who just happen to be amazing in bed?) As another reviewer noted, the "revelation" of Rama was a bit of a cop-out. That's okay, because I'd known for years that ACC and Gentry Lee had painted themselves into a corner with the Ramans. Nobody could have pulled off a genuine revelation of the Ramans. Really, disappointing though it was, a cop-out was the best way they could have handled the revelation. So, if the characters were terrible and the plot disappointing, why 3 stars? Simply because it was a valiant attempt, as was the entire series. ACC never intended to write a sequel to "Rendezvous," and the book on its own did not deserve one. He presented us with a mystery of stupendous magnitude, but nothing else. The sequels are worth reading simply because they attempt to put the mystery into HUMAN terms. We might not like or believe the characters, but it's good to see that they at least have names.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent!
Review: Even though the series had its weak spots and rough chapters, in the end it turned out to be and amazing conclusion to an epic adventure.
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