Rama II: The Sequel to Rendezvous with Rama

Rating:
Summary: A greate read !
Review: Although many people think that this book is like some kind of crapt I found it very interesting , not as much as the first one , but it's greate , the puzzles are well imagined and the characters are alive , I even came to identify myself with Richard ! . A very good story.

Rating:
Summary: Nice sequel to the splendid first Rama
Review: There is a little bit a sense of wonder again. But I hate the parts of Gentry Lee (too much Soap Opera-like). Better than 'Cradle' and 'Rama III' and 'Rama IV'.

Rating:
Summary: Gentry Lee Stinks!
Review: This wasn't even close to what the first one was. I had to skip the the 1st 15 chapters they were too boring! But still read this.

Rating:
Summary: Too much lead-in with no relevance!!!
Review: I read Rendezvous with Rama, and then I immediately jumped into Rama II. The first thing I noticed was that Gentry Lee writes and elaborates a lot more than Arthur C. Clark. Also, he spends way too long on trying to develop stupid, simpleminded characters while barely spending any time on the PLOT. Unfortunately, I read onward. Some of the book was interesting, but no thought was given to the facts that perspective changed and so did the view of Rama. The plot goes more and more downhill, and the end parts were really stupid. Although this book stunk, I won't spoil the end. I will just say that the next book is worse.

Rating:
Summary: Pretty decent, but not on par with Rama I
Review: Rama I could be defined as "pure science fiction" or maybe "classic science fiction", but Rama II did not live up to my expectations. Rama I was original and thought provoking though not one for action-junkies. Rama II was designed to fill that space, but in doing that Clarke/Lee(probably Lee) made it sluggish and less appealing to the sci-fi buff. Maybe it was a bit unfair for me to expect it to be as good as Rama I but nonetheless I stick to my 7.

Rating:
Summary: Rama 2 too long....
Review: Rama 2 is an ok book, but Arthur C. Clarke should have tried to make a long story short, instead of the opposite which he did. I think the Rama series of books are good, but none of the books can stand alone, except for the first one. In a series like this if there are cliffhangers it makes them awful and tedious to read. The cliffhanger at the end of Rama 2 was one of the most pathetic ways of saying, "Hey, nothing has been resolved, so buy my next book." I do think that the characters were great in this novel. I am also wondering what ever happened to Arthur C. Clarke's novels that had great ideas about the future and the awesome potential that mankind has. It angers me that Clarke would sink to using some sort of economic apocalypse to provide a future story without any advandements in tecnology from the first novel. Maybe it can be blamed on Gentry Lee, who knows?

Rating:
Summary: Better Character Development than RWR
Review: An awesome book with plenty of characters. Unlike the first book, you get to know who you're reading about. Characters become likable (Takagishi and Tabori) and unlikable (Sabatini, Wilson, Brown). Though this isn't a completely SF book, it is intriguing, and the last 200 pages are truly brilliant.

Rating:
Summary: GOOD.....but not the best.
Review: RamaII was extremly original but lacked in reality. The sf in this book was great and kept giving you more questions than answers. I would have given it a 10 or 9 but the characterizations were lame. There were to many coinincidences. I love almost all of the Rama books, but this one was a little contrived.

Rating:
Summary: The Young and the Restless Rama II
Review: Have read half of it and am stopping. Cheese. Basically, take everything intriguing about the first book, remove it, and write a dissociated uninteresting soap opera that could take place on daytime television. However, "Rendezvous with Rama" (the first book, written 15 years before "Rama II") is truly a work of art-read it. Clarke even warns you in the introduction that he wrote "Rama II" because he didn't have any other ideas. Gentry Lee should stick to administration.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent! But It Is Not Similar To Rama
Review: Arthur C. Clarke wrote a good book that is Rama. Rama II is excellent, but this book is not similar to Rama. Because this new series has got violence, sex, emotional passages. This series are NOT sci-fic. If you like less sci-fic, more story about people, buy them.