Rendezvous with Rama
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (538 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001JK64LY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 157 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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"What if you find a bottle with the message being a whole world." according to Reinold F.. Actually I thought I had read this book before as the title seemed familiar but not special. Oh boy! it was a book I had not read and what a surprise, now it's an unforgettable story to me. It's full of adventure, humanity and science in an uncanny envelope. I thought it was going to be predictable but its magic proved to last until its end. This story is a box of surprises opening almost non-stop. The tiny bit perhaps that I didn't like so much was the light suggestion of a sequel, that gave me the temptation to consider it a four stars classification but that would be unfair.It has the taste of the best science fiction. A Christy said Like Visiting an Old Friend!. Re-reading this was sort of like visiting an old friend again. I first read this back in the early 80s and then it was very futuristic and "out there." As a much older woman, it was more quaint than I remembered. Of course, it was written in the 70s, so there's that. Arthur C. Clarke is my favorite SF author of all time, so I'd like anything he wrote during his lifetime, but this one raised some eyebrows in the adult person I am now.I hadn't realized how enormously sexist it was when I read it as a teen, but it really is. As in hugely, but in that benevolently paternalistic sort of way that has no meanness in it. It's si. "A classic masterpiece mired in 1970s" according to Gary R Zarback. Being an avid SciFi fan for a couple decades, I decided to start reading some of the classics and legends.The writing, the words used, descriptionsall are outrageously dated to somebody who thrived in the 1960-1980s in USA. This is a pet peave of mine; authors who categorically abandon their writing to a specific generational viewpoint. It's like watching a 1978 sitcom; the music is all wrong, the clothes are all wrong, the mannerisms are all wrong, the annoyingly fake audience laughs & claps are all wrong. So you are forced to endure all of that while frantically holding onto the slippery actual storyline audaciously pr
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