Difference between revisions of "2001: A Space Odyssey"
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− | + | [[Image:2001 - A Space Odyssey - Hard Cover - USA - 1st Edition.jpg|thumb|256x256px|Hard Cover, USA, 1st Edition.]] | |
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+ | I do not own this book, but have listened to it on audio book. | ||
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+ | ==Review== | ||
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+ | Overall, I enjoyed this novel, but it felt pretty disjointed. The three main sections are tied together by a common theme, but not well enough for my tastes. It felt more like three different books in a series. I liked the description of the early ape-men society, and the suspense of finding the monolith on the moon, I also liked the fear of HAL, but overall, I think this was underplayed. Clarke gives away too much to the reader, killing the suspense, and HAL never really seemed like much of a threat despite his hyper-intelligent AI. I also felt the ending was too long and descriptive of things that were essentially impossible to picture in my head. I liked the idea of the alien race using their powers to construct an Earth-like setting based on poorly understood information from Earth, an idea seen over and over again in sci-fi (Contact, Star Trek: TNG, Interstellar, etc.), but since the aliens were essentially god-like, this seems out-of-place. | ||
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+ | ==Links== | ||
+ | {{Link|Wikipedia|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(novel)}} | ||
+ | {{Link|GoodReads|https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70535.2001}} | ||
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Revision as of 11:49, 11 November 2019
Status
I do not own this book, but have listened to it on audio book.
Review
— This section contains spoilers! —
Overall, I enjoyed this novel, but it felt pretty disjointed. The three main sections are tied together by a common theme, but not well enough for my tastes. It felt more like three different books in a series. I liked the description of the early ape-men society, and the suspense of finding the monolith on the moon, I also liked the fear of HAL, but overall, I think this was underplayed. Clarke gives away too much to the reader, killing the suspense, and HAL never really seemed like much of a threat despite his hyper-intelligent AI. I also felt the ending was too long and descriptive of things that were essentially impossible to picture in my head. I liked the idea of the alien race using their powers to construct an Earth-like setting based on poorly understood information from Earth, an idea seen over and over again in sci-fi (Contact, Star Trek: TNG, Interstellar, etc.), but since the aliens were essentially god-like, this seems out-of-place.