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I finished Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke yesterday. The first one third of the novel reminded me with the most similar situations and descriptions as in The Unearthing by Steve Karmazenuk, which I have read in February. However, the story turned more interestingly later on, and I particularly liked the mental indecisiveness of Commander Norton and his companion Lieutenant Rodrigo, while taking a crucial decision to deactivate the bomb launched to destroy Rama, by the Hermians of Mercury. The end of the novel was fascinating, with the sentence - 'The Ramans do everything in threes.'
Next I was planning to go for The Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson, which is this month's selection in MR book club also, but due to budget constraints, I may not buy it now. So next up from my TBR - good old Erle Stanley Gardner with his cozy mystery You Can Die Laughing.
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