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Loading... 2001: A Space Odyssey (original 1968; edition 1968)by Arthur C. Clarke
Work details2001: A space odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (1968)
 saraferrell | Apr 3, 2013 |  This book sucks out the wonder, grace, mystery, and menace of the story as the movie represents it and injects instead a fussy gentleman-scientist narratorial voice that revels in scientific pedantry and renders everything it describes hopelessly flat and banal. I skimmed the Star Gate section at the end but can't bear to devote any more time to reading the undoubtedly excruciating twenty-or-so pages between that and where I stopped. idlerking | Mar 31, 2013 | I remember who lent me this book in HS, in what class, and the fact that I read the last page at his suggestion. That single page pushed me into a three to four year spiral of sci-fi reading that changed my life. perhaps not for the better or the worse, but changed I was. Mind-bending lit tends to attract we introspective, depressed nerds, but this book had such power that nothing else I read really struck me as hard (maybe Larry Niven's The Mote in God's Eye, but even that was a different fascination -- and I only read that one once). But Clarke introduced me to Niven and eventually I found myself buying stacks of used sci-fi. I mean, what better compliment than "this book made me read more"? Only John Steinbeck can share that distinction in that point of my life. (  ) evanroskos | Mar 30, 2013 | Purchased this first edition ten years or so ago. It was autographed! Now my brother is looking after the book. First read 2001 in HS. Remember seeing the movie when it was first screen--rocked my mind. (  ) Traveller1 | Mar 30, 2013 | An excellent book by one of the best SF authors. ( ) jamespurcell | Mar 8, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
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It was okay. Mostly, it was was slow and rather boring. The part where HAL tries to take over the spaceship was interesting, but that only lasted for about 25 minutes (of the 6 hours). The ending was bizarre beyond belief and I never really got attached to the main character. I think it would have been MUCH more interesting as a movie... which it obviously is. I checked it out from the library, so I'll have to watch it.
The book was written in 1968, so there are some funny things as far as technology is concerned. Their idea of the future still included cameras in film, as well as cassette-tape-like magnetic rolls to store data on. It was hilarious. :)
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