Double Full Moon Night

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Summary: Dissapointing sequel
Review: I, unlike many other Rama readers, thought that Bright Messengers was a great book. Even though the reader didn't fully understand everything at the end, I was very excited knowing I would find out how humans got in the octospider colony inside Rama. I though BM preserved the sense of mystery that Clarke & Lee created so well together. However, I was very dissapointed with Double Full Moon Light. In his previous books, Lee seemed to explore the workings of the inner mind almost as much as he did create an outer scientfic world. In short, I found the characterization shallow, and the main characters had so many different forgettable offspring that I nearly threw the book across the room after trying to relate them back to Johann. Oh well, I'll just view this as a quick slump for Lee. I hope his next book is as good as Bright Messengers was.

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Summary: Could have been, should have been, And might have been.
Review: Lee missed the mark. He should go back and reread Ramma. I do not think that I will read Mr. Lee's work anymore. I am truly disapointed. Perhaps Arthur C. Clark should take over again and do justic to the concept of three that was in Ramma. He, Mr., Clack could do a good job.

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Summary: Utter Rubbish... With Some Redeeming Qualities!
Review: Rama was great. This wasn't. It spent too much time going over and over what had happened in the previous chapters and even the previous book. Sure some reflections and reminders were required but surely not on every page! This book should have focussed on Maria's encounters with the Octospiders, but Lee's lack of forsight prevented that. On the plus side there were some excellent creatures with interesting lifecycles presented that provide moments of compelling reading. Actually this book does show that there was a lot of loose ends left at the end of the Rama. Lee would do well to write a collection of short stories tying up those loose ends as well as the ones in this story. The novel wasn't very satisfying, but it was interesting (except for the repetitive bits). Buy this if you brought the first and the Rama novels but don't expect a sense of overwhelming relevation. It just doesn't happen.

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Summary: Gentry, please!
Review: Tell the story! Don't bore me to death with details. This was a waste of time, in my estimation. No continuity, no real story line, little value.

Rating:
Summary: Gentry, please!
Review: Tell the story! Don't bore me to death with details. This was a waste of time, in my estimation. No continuity, no real story line, little value.

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Summary: Maybe I needed the first volume
Review: There's something about airports. When I'm flying, I pick up reading material I would normally have passed over. That's how I came to pick up DFMN.

This is the second in a series, and I never read the first. That always gives the feeling that I walked in partway through someone else's conversation, and missed whatever it was that would have made the sequel make sense. I'm not so sure, though.

Our Heroes are taken by mysterious sparkling beings and set into an unfamiliar world. For some reason, that is a dangerous world. Even with births, their numbers dwindle. Then they taken by mysterious and malignant being and set into a cavernous world. They are kept alive for reasons unknown, and then <<plot discontinuity>> and the survivors are set into another unfamiliar world. Despite unexplained visitations from the dead, their numbers dwindle in this dangerous environment. In the final onslaught <<plot discontinuity>> and there is only one left. She is taken by the original mysterious beings and set into an unfamiliar environment.

That's about it. I guess. There are some goings-on between characters that I've skipped over, maybe the book was about those. I dunno.

//wiredweird


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Summary: This was same author of Bright Messengers & Rama Books?
Review: This book was a great disappointment. I had eagerly awaited the sequel to Bright Messengers. Although the author delves into the life of Johann quite throughly, it was really disgusting to read about his almost incestious relationship with his surrogate daughter, Maria. I also felt that I was being emotionally jerked around by Mr. Lee, who seemed to capriciously kill his characters by placing them in situations that were meaningless and stupid. Please, Mr. Lee, no more sequels; give it a rest.

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Summary: This was same author of Bright Messengers & Rama Books?
Review: This book was a great disappointment. I had eagerly awaited the sequel to Bright Messengers. Although the author delves into the life of Johann quite throughly, it was really disgusting to read about his almost incestious relationship with his surrogate daughter, Maria. I also felt that I was being emotionally jerked around by Mr. Lee, who seemed to capriciously kill his characters by placing them in situations that were meaningless and stupid. Please, Mr. Lee, no more sequels; give it a rest.

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Summary: enjoyable and fun to read
Review: This sequel was well writem with only one problem; that is that the story line made to many assumptions, ei:if you did not know about the Rama story, then ending would be hard to follow. Wrapping all the loose ends together was not done as smoothly as possible. Now having said that I did enjoy the book very much.

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Summary: Well written but with too many holes left unanswered
Review: This was an exciting, at times very suspenseful book. Gentry's characterization was excellent. At the end of the book, I personally knew every character. Having said that, why did I give it such a low rating? Simply put, there were too many holes in the book. What was the point of the nozzlers? That was never fully explained. What about the elevark or Scarface and the rest of his species? What was their role in the whole scheme? These short stories were exciting but they don't contribute to the overall story. Okay, they do show how smart and powerful Johann was but they don't add anything to the whole story. The double full moon nights were anti-climactic. Without giving anything away, it was more exciting not knowing what happened to the people that stayed behind. Later finding out what really happened to those people, ruined what I had imagined. The last 20 or so pages that 'explained everything' were boring and they certainly didn't explain anything. Maybe to the character in the book but not to anyone reading the book. Oh well, I'll still read Gentry's next book.