Garden of Rama [Import] [Mass Market Paperback]

Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Orbit; New Ed edition (1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1857230205
• ISBN-13: 978-1857230208
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (90 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,994,136 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Shocked by the good reviews, August 22, 2001

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G. Harp (New London, Minnesota USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Garden of Rama (Paperback)

I agree with those that panned this book, and I also have to agree that I thought I was getting a book written by the esteemed Arthur C Clark. Either Sir Clark has lost it, or it was written by someone else. The book has a lot of promise but squanders it, and resolves nothing. Also, the plot (especially regarding the extreme stupidity of the colonists) is not believable.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Oh dear..., January 3, 2000

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adi30 - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Garden of Rama (Paperback)

The only good thing about this book is the sense of wonder you get through thinking, 'how can Clarke have let this happen?' and how Gentry Lee, possibly the most inept writer working in fiction today is allowed to be released from 3rd grade Eng. Lit classes long enough to write this monstrosity.

300 years is an astonishingly long time for nothing at all to happen. Nicole Des Jardins, sheesh, I half expected her to develop the powers of flight, and heat ray vision by the end of the book.

This book is really quite dreadful. Read it as an example of how Clarke's unwillingness to write more than a few scrawled words on the back of a napkin and then pass it over to someone else has transmuted this once 'master' into a name publishers feel will sell fourth rate tripe.

20 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars God this is a bad book...., June 20, 2006

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Mike D (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Garden of Rama (Paperback)

I have just reread the whole series, book one is a very good book but each book after is geometrically worse. Book two is bad, book three is horrible, I'm at a loss to describe book four. I recommend shoving needles under your finger nails which is less painful then this series. Read and keep book one, burn the rest.