Double Full Moon Night [Paperback]

Gentry Lee (Author)

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• Paperback
• Publisher: Bantam Books (March 1, 2000)
• ASIN: B001I96MAO
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars What an utter waste of time, April 17, 2001

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This review is from: Double Full Moon Night (Mass Market Paperback)

I waited so long for this book, I had nearly forgotten what it was supposed to be about. Apparently the author did as well. The last half of the book is a haphazard collection of incidents with very little to do with any sort of plot, except to, perhaps, explain the title of the book - which by the way, ultimately had little to do with a consistent plot other than to kill off some inconvenient characters. Lee at least had enough sense to raise some questions that I as a reader needed to have answered, otherwise I would never have finished reading it. But he should have stopped raising the more complicated questions somewhere before the final section. Had he done so, he wouldn't have had to tie things up in such a neat, improbable little package in the final 3 chapters. Don't even get me started on thin character development, and an unhealthy tendency to insert a new life form merely to lengthen the novel as a whole. And as an atheist, I found being preached to on a regular basis rather insulting.

When Lee was co-credited for some of the Rama novels, I hoped I'd found a new author whose work could at least partially fill the void left by Clarke's declining output and the total loss of Asimov's. I'm afraid I'll have to look elsewhere, because I won't subject myself again to this kind of drivel.

Frankly, the 2 stars I gave this book are generous, but unfortunately, worse books than this exist and I needed to save room for them.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Garden of Rama #2, December 8, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Double Full Moon Night (Mass Market Paperback)

Gentry Lee created an intriguing plot in Bright Messengers, and totally lost it in Double Full Moon Night. Although the beginning on the first island with Maria was good enough, it went downhill from there. After creating more alien species than I care to enumerate (some seem to have been created for their own sake) and horrible charaterization (is it a coincidence that everyone has merely one character trait?), he seems to take us out of the grotto with no idea of where he is headed. Consequently, from that point on, he falls back almost completely on "Garden of Rama" to finish this book. Johann has every good trait of Richard and Nicole, Vivien becomes a watered-down Nicole with absolutely no initiative, and Maria has every bad trait of Katie, right down to the final split into East and West Villages, which he could have copied from "Garden". Johann's experiences with the nepps and Richard's adventure in the sessile habitat on Rama are almost the same. The end of the book, however, is the worst part. With no way apparently to end his book, he goes to the (excellent) last chapters of "Rama Revealed" and tries to incorporate them into his book-mainly by killing everyone except for Johann and then creating new characters (which appears to be his favorite thing to do). Johann in the last chapters seems to even think the same thoughts as Nicole did at the end of "Revealed". The ending, unlike that of Rama or anything Clarke has written, was disappointing, unbelievable, and totally inconclusive. It raised more questions than he hoped to answer. I expected better.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great story but tie things up a bit., May 6, 2007

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This review is from: Double Full Moon Night (Mass Market Paperback)

I enjoyed this book and its companion Bright Messengers but I would like to see some of the Rama mystery resolved already. Mystery gets frustrating and boring after a while if no light is shed. I still really love the stories and hope for more from Mr. Lee.