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Summary: Stunning
Review: A book colored with great visual imagery, the first in the series, BRIGHT MESSENGERS was better, but I enjoyed this book too. I hope this isn't Lee's last book, and hope to read more from him soon.
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Summary: Can't wait.
Review: A time machine I wish I had. To April I would go glad. To read "Double Full Moon Night". Then my mind would be bright. Coming back to now. Seeds of light I would sow. Expecting Gentry to bow. Telling us of his show.
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Summary: Very disappointed given the wait for this sequel.
Review: Disappointment in the extreme! After waiting three years for Double Full Moon Night, I was let down by the lack of clarity on what the entire story line means. I expected some ruminations about God or our place in the cosmos, and all I got was a long list of characters placed in plots that did little to serve the story. If you read Bright Messengers, you should read this book to catch up with Johann and the others, but don't expect a lot of insights, only amusing short stories with throw-out aliens and animals.
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Summary: Garden of Rama #2
Review: Gentry Lee created an intriguing plot in Bright Messengers, and totally lost it in Double Full Moon Night. Although the beginning on the first island with Maria was good enough, it went downhill from there. After creating more alien species than I care to enumerate (some seem to have been created for their own sake) and horrible charaterization (is it a coincidence that everyone has merely one character trait?), he seems to take us out of the grotto with no idea of where he is headed. Consequently, from that point on, he falls back almost completely on "Garden of Rama" to finish this book. Johann has every good trait of Richard and Nicole, Vivien becomes a watered-down Nicole with absolutely no initiative, and Maria has every bad trait of Katie, right down to the final split into East and West Villages, which he could have copied from "Garden". Johann's experiences with the nepps and Richard's adventure in the sessile habitat on Rama are almost the same. The end of the book, however, is the worst part. With no way apparently to end his book, he goes to the (excellent) last chapters of "Rama Revealed" and tries to incorporate them into his book-mainly by killing everyone except for Johann and then creating new characters (which appears to be his favorite thing to do). Johann in the last chapters seems to even think the same thoughts as Nicole did at the end of "Revealed". The ending, unlike that of Rama or anything Clarke has written, was disappointing, unbelievable, and totally inconclusive. It raised more questions than he hoped to answer. I expected better.
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Summary: Wow.. Amazing characters. pity they were stuck in this book
Review: Gentry Lee.. created some WONDERFUL characters... and made many of us WANT to follow there adventures.... The pity is.. the killed the best one off in the frist book (and for no reason visible then to get rid of her) and spent this entire book putting the (wonderful) cast through a 'test to destruction' that is both pointless.. and sad .. no reason for there plight ever given.. nor answers ever given... and.. despite his wonderful writing.. it can all be summed up in on sentance... (spoiler) The struggled mightly.. but.. they died.. yea
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Summary: What an utter waste of time
Review: Having waited almost four years for this sequel, I must say I was rather happy with it. It made for a very interesting and fun read. Most of the story deals with characterization, but the descriptions of the alien landscape are wonderful. The story moves at a very fast pace, and although there is not much of an external plot, the character interactions are never dull. While this book could be read and enjoyed without having read the first one, the ending would probably not have the same meaning to someone who had not read the entire Rama series. Overall I would say this is a good choice if you are looking for a fun story.
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Summary: A fun read
Review: Having waited almost four years for this sequel, I must say I was rather happy with it. It made for a very interesting and fun read. Most of the story deals with characterization, but the descriptions of the alien landscape are wonderful. The story moves at a very fast pace, and although there is not much of an external plot, the character interactions are never dull. While this book could be read and enjoyed without having read the first one, the ending would probably not have the same meaning to someone who had not read the entire Rama series. Overall I would say this is a good choice if you are looking for a fun story.
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Summary: A rewrite of the dullest moments of the Rama series.
Review: I adored the Rama books and thought Gentry's first solo book Bright Messengers was promising although unfulfilling. I hoped Double Full Moon Night would elaborate and inject some badly needed ideas but left the book very disapointed. Gentry develops his characters very well and then does nothing interesting with them. All they seem to do is wander around, not knowing anything, and finding out precious little more of any interest. There is a never ending description of their environment but I find it similar to road movie where you never see outside the car. At least now its clear who contributed what to the Rama series. Arthur is a visionary, ideas filling every page whereas Gentry is a competent character developer with no imagination at all.
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Summary: "Devastatedly disappointed" is too mild
Review: I am sad to tell you that you should not waste your time. I waited many months after the promised printing date, every week harrassing the people at the book store, trying to figure out when this book would be out. I felt betrayed at the partial development of characters only to have them vanish with minimal effort and suspense. This was not science fiction. Lee was trying, very unsuccessfully, to show the struggle a human has with identifying his place in the universe with the concept of GOD and God's place. These issues were touched on briefly inbetween crisis' almost as an after thought. I choose this and his previous book due to my love of Rama series. I feel robbed and deceived.
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Summary: Good, but falls short of Lee's Bright Messengers
Review: I anxiously awaited the sequel to Bright Messengers and did enjoy the book-Double Full Moon Night. Although, compared to Bright Messengers I was dissappointed. The story wrapped up some of the lose ends, but did not shed light on many of the most interesting mysteries brought out in the first book. In the Rama series, we may have not gotten all the answers at the end, but most everything was explained. The one excellent feature was the fact that the character of Maria was tied into the Rama series. If you read Bright Messengers it is worth reading Double Full Moon Night, eventhough it could have been better.
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