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Summary: Good thougts, shame about the virus
Review: A good read in its own right, but sadly didn't do much for the saga, The only peice of future truth to be gained was about religion of our day being the cause of 70% of our problems, Worth the read just for this thought provocking isssue
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Summary: A big disappointment
Review: LESS OF A BOOK, FAR MORE A HOTCH-POTCH OF DISPARATE IDEAS.
THIS SERIES HAS BEEN PLUMMETING FOR 30 YEARS, AND THIS CERTAINLY DOES NOTHING TO ARREST THE DECLINE.
IT IS ALMOST TO BE EXPECTED OF CLARKE BY THIS TIME THAT CHARACTERISATION WILL BE AT A MINIMUM AND DIALOGUE STODGY, BUT AT LEAST HIS OTHER BOOKS CONVEYED SOME OF HIS
ENTHUSIASM AND WONDER- THIS BOOK SEEMS LIKE A COLLECTION OF SCRIBBLED ON ENVELOPES AND CIGARETTE PACKETS, ASSEMBLED OVER 50-ODD YEARS WHICH CLARKE HAS UNEARTHED AND DECIDED TO STRING TOGETHER(MAYBE HE HAD TO PAY HIS ELECTRICITY BILL OR SOMETHING). THE ENDING IS PATHETIC, SAVE FOR THE FINAL VERSE, WHICH AT LEAST SERVED TO EVOKE A SNIPPET OF THE AWE OF 2001.
CONVERSELY, HOWEVER, THE EPILOGUE REALLY IS EXCELLENT, AND PERHAPS DEMONSTRATES THE DEFINING DICHOTOMY OF THIS AUTHOR'S CAREER; CLARKE THE SCIENTIST IS AN UNDOUBTED GENIUS
WHO HAS MESMERISED US FOR YEARS, AND WILL ONLY BECOME MORE VENERATED AS THE DECADES ROLL ON-
BUT CLARKE THE WRITER IS AN ARTIST WITH A (SADLY) VERY LIMITED PALETTE. IF YOU VALUE THE EMOTION YOU FELT WHEN READING OR WATCHING 2001,THEN AVOID THIS BOOK LIKE THE PLAGUE.
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Summary: 3001: An Anticlimax to an Epic saga
Review: When it was first written, 3001 brought us a world of amazement in a far-fetched Universe. It seemed to discuss advances that mankind would ulitmately make and in our near future, and discusses some very deep questions. This is disscussed and continued in 2010, and 2061, where the plot continues to build up to what should be a stunning climax. However, I say that 3001 MIGHT be a worthy continuation, but not a finale to one of the greatest Science-fiction epics of all time.
When I purchased the book, I was expecting a deep novel that would leave me thinking, what I got was a very mundane explanation to an Epic. All Clark does is try to bring 3001 in to the Computer age, which kills some of the beauty of the series.
From the very begining, I knew it would not be the Epic I imagined, when it launched into a lengthy (but admittedly interesting) speech on the third Millenium. The rest of the book seemed rushed to come to an ending in the fewest pages possible.
Though I admit that it would be difficult to end such a series, I think such a brilliant writer as Clark could do better than this.
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Summary: What a Cop Out!
Review: Bringing Frank back was a great idea. The rest was crap. I can't believe that it would all end this way! ACC has got to be senile. This has none of the mystery or beauty of 2001, nor the intelligence of 2010 or 2061. And frankly, I don't think that the monoliths can be beaten by some computer virus. Come on! They pulled the same side show trick in ID4! Let me guess: The monoliths are IBM compatible and run on Windows 95. I don't think so! I thought that the series would end on a brighter note than this, I really did. Maybe someone should rewrite it for ACC.
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Summary: Not a sequel, not independent, not a good read
Review: If you are a Clarke fan, if you do not know much about computer viruses (virii?), if you like short-short chapters with not much material on them, and if you are willing to forget "2061: Odissey Three" ever existed, THEN you may like 3001. The comments regarding computer viruses are ludicrous (locking them up in a vault so they cannot infect anything? burning a robot which handled such a virus in order to disinfect him?). Forgetting all what happened in 2061 --which has become a non-entity-- is not justifiable. The link between Bowman, Hal and Floyd in order to solve the problem of Lucifer's extinction looked interesting... but it's no more. Furthermore, there is something illogical going there. Much of the novel hinges on the problems of FTL (Faster Than Light) travel and information sent out to a place 450 light years away but the Monolith was a sort of star gate which allowed FTL travel, so why the delay?
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Summary: Remember...
Review: Just a note to you who compare 3001 to 2001. Clarke based the last 3 books of the series off the movie, not the book. That's where Jupiter comes into play.
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Summary: 3001 - What an Odyssey Story
Review: Hmmm. Clarke is probably one of the best writers this century in any genre. However I have to ask - did he really write it or was it ghost written? I quite enjoyed the overall read but the book didn't hang together well. As for the end, I turned the page for the next chapter to be confronted by no more story! It was as if Arthur suddenly got bored and just stopped! 2001 was excellent, 2010 and 2061 were both innovative and well written, this however quite frankly is very poor, and better he should have not written it than given us this. Maybe I'm too harsh, but we have come to expect from Clarke a certain imagination that allows us to believe in what he says. It's not coincidence that much of what he predicts happens as those inventors probably read Clarke as boys, and were spured on by their own imagination and Clarkes belief.
Sorry but this only gets a 3 out of deference to all his past unsurpassable works.
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Summary: someone kill me!!!!
Review: I love Clarke, BUT this was one of the worst books I've ever read. It added nothing to the series. The characters are flat. Ofcourse this is sci-fi; that can be excused. Whtat can't is that Clarke seems to have spontaneously become scientifically ignorant and uncreative. Ex. dinosaurs reconstructed from dna are used as gardeners in the future. No, I don't mean they trim the grass by eating it; I mean they use hedgeclippers. Yes, that is really in the book. The only reason that I didn't give it a 1 is because the epilouge in which he dicusses some scientific principles is very good.
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Summary: Best book I've Read In My Entire Life!
Review: I think that 3001 was a wonderful story and all my thanks to Arthur C. Clarke for writing such a fantastic and mind captavating novel! If you haven't read this book yet-DO! It was the first book I have read in a long time that I didn't want to put down!
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Summary: Was ACC in a rush to get somewhere?
Review: This book, no rather collection of pages, was awful. Where is the plot, where is the imagination? By the time I finished I felt that ACC had an appointment that afternoon and quickly finished the book so as not to miss his engagement. However, to the books credit, since it did nothing to stimulate my gray matter, I did sleep very well as it slipped out of my hands.
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