I recently read Rama for the first time and it honestly just seemed…dumb. a nice piece of imagination but the relationships and motivations just didn’t seem real. Lime why smuggle a skybike on board when it’s expensive and fragile and there was no expectation of being able to ride it? It was a little Deus ex machina for my tastes.
Oof, I re-read it in the last few weeks and it was fine, pretty dry but still. The second book felt terrible. His writing of female characters sucked and the focus on sex and sexualizing women irked me. It felt wrong. So, I gave up and finished The Expanse instead. Win in my book.
Yes, not the best Clarke novel. The general idea is nice, and the author’s prose is good, but you’re left with the impression that something is missing. The plot falls on the bland side, in my opinion. I avoided the sequels, as the comments on them were pretty negative.
I don’t consider myself a bookworm, but I recently read:
And now I’m reading The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin.
Yes, I like Science Fiction XDDD
Edit: realizing that I had nothing lined up to read after “The Three-Body…”, I just got:
I think I’m now covered for the rest of the summer, lol!
I recently read Rama for the first time and it honestly just seemed…dumb. a nice piece of imagination but the relationships and motivations just didn’t seem real. Lime why smuggle a skybike on board when it’s expensive and fragile and there was no expectation of being able to ride it? It was a little Deus ex machina for my tastes.
Oof, I re-read it in the last few weeks and it was fine, pretty dry but still. The second book felt terrible. His writing of female characters sucked and the focus on sex and sexualizing women irked me. It felt wrong. So, I gave up and finished The Expanse instead. Win in my book.
Yes, not the best Clarke novel. The general idea is nice, and the author’s prose is good, but you’re left with the impression that something is missing. The plot falls on the bland side, in my opinion. I avoided the sequels, as the comments on them were pretty negative.