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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I recently read Rendezvous with Rama and it was a painful experience.
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Aww, it wasn't
that bad. It's very third person though, you don't feel like you're in the story. I did recently read Childhood's End (which came highly recommended) and it was blah. I don't see what all the fuss is about. And the sequel to Rama? Oh my was it awful. In one of my personal reviews for a Clarke book I wrote: "His books are far too sterile for my tastes, though intriguing ideas usually surface."
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Originally Posted by starrigger
Ooh, sorry to hear that. My most painful Golden Age reread was Asimov's "Nightfall." I didn't do much better with Foundation, which I loved as a kid. On the other hand, I can with pleasure reread the old Tom Corbett Space Cadet books, and a few of my favorite old Winston SF juveniles. I'm not sure what the difference is, since the writing is pretty clunky in all of them.
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Nightfall is another I read very recently for the first time, and I didn't get what was so "revolutionary" about it either. Foundation, on the other hand, I love
Space opera all the way!
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Originally Posted by jhempel24
Really??? We have a store called Half Price Books where the hardcovers are $7.99, they are NOT book club, and they are most definitely NOT library, they do not accept library.
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Those are from people like me who cleaned out all their bookshelves when they went digital
I do not miss hardbacks!