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Summary: bad, very bad
Review: When I heard that mr Clarke had written the fourth book in the series, I thought it was something special, you know, a great adventure that would make me loose my breath or something, almost like 2001. My mistake. It was boring
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Summary: Ideas running out !!!
Review: After I read 2061, it already gave me an impression that Arthur C. Clarke has ran out of ideas for this series and 3001 confirmed my feeling. I am sorry but I seriously deem that this book has spoiled the reputation of 2001 and 2010. He should have stopped at 2061.p.s. the worst part of the book is the ending,it's too sloppy.How can the computer virus created by the human beings be able to damage the "Frist Born" 's "computers", I don't think they use the same computer language as us.
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Summary: I can't believe I paid for the hard-cover of this.
Review: First, I loved 2001 and 2010, I tolerated 2061. It was with great anticipation that I picked up 3001. What a major disappointment. There is very little plot and even the major characters were two-dimentional. I actually went back and read the "novel" a second time several months later hoping against hope that I had missed something the first time. It was even worse the second time around. I thought the ending of Independance Day was lame and here's the same basic idea, even though ACC claims to have not seen the movie the whole virus thing reminded me of the virus hoaxes that appear on the 'Net way too often. The whole Starchild/Halman theme seems to have been cheerfully tossed over the side and whatever happened to Floyd? I can go on and on but why bother? <sigh>
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Summary: Click BACK and do not return here...
Review: I gave 5 stars for 2001, 4 stars for 2010, 3 for 2061, and... I was tempted to give 1 star or none at all, but I felt sorry for Arthur C. Clarke, because he is my favorite writer... So what is this book? Half lecture, half pulp science fiction... Surely, he could have done much better than this!!! SHAME... TT
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Summary: Not up to Clarke's usualy standards, but still fun
Review: While 3001 isn't as good as 2010 and 2061, it is still a good story. It is slower and less action packed then previous books in the series, but it is a nice conclusion to the series. Don't be daunted by the bad reviews. It was well worth reading. Clarke also manages to slip in a lot of nods to various other SciFi authors, a nice touch that almost makes the book worth reading by itself. Definately a should-read.
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Summary: 3001 The Big Dissappointment
Review: Being one of Arthur Clarke's biggest fans, I was amazingly disappointed with this novel... the story about Frank was simply uninteresting, and (at least to me) was far-fetched. Nothing new was brought to the table here, in fact, the fact that Clarke relies on the MUCH CLICHE'D computer virus to defeat the amazing monolith was simply too incredible for me. This, coupled with enough-too-many references to STAR TREK , made me nauseous. I have never been as disappointed since reading his co-written CRADLE.
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Summary: Should have stopped at 3
Review: I was very disappointed with the story as it unfolded. As some of the other reviews have indicated it started with promise and then quickly died. Mr Clarke did not bother with even an attempt to conceal his loathing of religion nor his apparent view that Socialism is the best form of government (obviously he has never read Frederick C. Hayak's "Road to Serfdom"). I kept waiting for the story to break out into something worthy of the series but instead found myself at end asking "Is this it?!" He should of stopped at the 3rd book or at least waited until he had some inspiration.
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Summary: it's not THAT bad...
Review: I recently devoured all 4 books on the subway, and i have to say that while 3001 was definitely the bottom of all of them, it really wasn't that bad. just maybe not so spectacular as the other ones. It seems that clarke has set the bar too high, and after so many books it isn't really too easy to keep up. what can i say, that's understandable when you're "the greatest science fiction writer of all time." and about for the fans... it seems to me from the valediction that ACC wrote this book for himself, and after all the great literature he's given us, i think he's entitled. don't deny yourself the ending to one of the greatest series of all times because of the reviews on this page!!!
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Summary: Lacking the complexity and imagination of first 3 odysseys
Review: Other Reveiw have given the basic story line so I will restrict myself to comments. The first three books steadily built up to a number of questions that failed to be answered or commented upon in this last and final book. Cheif among them was "Who would inherit the galaxy--the humans or europeians?" 2001, 2010, and 2061 all also showed clear thought logic and eccelent imagination built into it that 3001 lacked completely. In fact in my opinion he failed to live up to the expectations that his great writing in the past and build up especially in 2061 led us to believe was coming. Frankly I am terribly disapointed.
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Summary: Clarke's imagination is pure science and it shows in 3001
Review: In 3001 the missing element is extra-scientific imagination in the form of real drama. Like the Rama series, there is wealth of plausible scientific innovation from a futurist perspective in the 2001 series, but little in the way of real imagination of the human kind. Nonetheless, I read Clarke with this caveat in mind and he never disappoints me. As expected, Clarke's world of 3001 is the innovative environment that we have come to expect from a futurist thinker, but to describe his world, he inserts some unrelated incidents that simply serve as a vehicle to describe innovation. I did enjoy the innovations of the third millenium and look forward to Clarke's futurist research prospectus.
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