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To: jcholewa who wrote (21116)11/30/2000 1:02:36 PM
From: andreas_wonischRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
JC, Re: OT: I very much like Clarke's early books (anything before the 1980s, as most of his later sequels are incredibly poor stories).

Yes, his latest books were a little bit disappointing. Since Clarke is in his eighties now this isn't that surprising. But I liked his "Rama" series (together with Gentry Lee) very much. The first book was written in the 70's but the three sequels are newer (90's).

From the older books "Fountains of Paradise", "Songs of Distant Earth" and "Childhood's End" are very good -- I'd highly recommend then to you if you haven't read them. I have read virtually everything from him... IMO he's one of the greatest Science-Fiction authors of the century.

The book was loads better than the movie. The movie retained much of the strong plot of the book, but overly confused its ending and happened to be about four times slower than it should have been.

IMO the book was only one possible interpretation of the movie. The book was very straight forward and didn't let much speculation left. The movie on the other hand was very difficult to "understand" at the first time and had many interesting concepts that could be interpreted in many different ways. IIRC Clarke and Kubrick developed the story together but the actual screenplay was written by Kubrick alone while Clarke was writing his "version" of the story.

If you reply, do so in the unmod thread if you can

I know I should but ... just too lazy. Sorry. Won't happen again. ;)

Andreas
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