Arthur C. Clarke
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| Original Title: | 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| ISBN: | 0451457994 (ISBN13: 9780451457998) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Space Odyssey #1 |
| Characters: | Heywood Floyd, HAL 9000, Dave Bowman, Frank Poole |
| Setting: | Outer Space |
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The book is always better than the film, but I'd never read 2001 before. What I didn't know, until reading the foreword, is that this novel was literally written in tandem with the film, with Clarke and Kubrick feeding each other ideas. At some points, however, filming overtook writing, or vice versa, and the two stories, though similar, split along two different paths. After reading the book, the film becomes little more than a very well crafted container: It's pretty and neat to look at it, but open it up, and it's empty. There is none of Clarke's vision of how a being we'd call God would communicate with us across unfathomable time spans, or teach us, or lead us into higher consciousness. Stripped away by Kubrick is the sense that this being truly wants us to be in its image, and that the whole breadcrumb trail of monoliths was designed to do just that. And completely erased is the notion that David Bowman, as Star Child, is now one with the Universe, in some Zen-like way, and also much more like something we'd called a god. Don't get me wrong, 2001 is still one of my favorite films, but to get the full meaning and understand the full weight of why 2001 has been called "the perfect science fiction story," you must read the book. Clarke marries science, mysticism, theory, and fantasy in ways like no other. Unfortunately, Kubrick stripped away the mysticism and theory and left us what is, in comparison to the book, only a glimmer at something bigger. Kubrick touched the monolith, but Clarke went inside.Mention About Books 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey #1)
| Title | : | 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey #1) |
| Author | : | Arthur C. Clarke |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 297 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 2000 by Roc (first published April 28th 1968) |
| Categories | : | Humor. Nonfiction. Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Autobiography. Memoir. Comics |
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Started during my "One Week, One Shelf" reading challenge! I've only read part one but it was already not what I expected... in a good way! Hope the rest of the book will be just as good once I can continue it!This novel and the film stem from the same original project. Initially, Kubrick and Clarke have been working together on the same story, and while Stanley Kubrick went on to make what is now his masterpiece (and one of the most amazing films in the history of cinema), Arthur C. Clarke wrote one of his most famous novels. The narratives in book and movie run parallel and so closely to one another, that, while re-reading the novel, I have found it almost impossible to dismiss the images from
He now perceived that there were more ways than one behind the back of space. As a longtime admirer of Stanley Kubricks dazzling film, I was more than a little hesitant about picking up this book, apprehensive that it might not be able to live up to my perhaps overly demanding expectations. And it did take me a good 50 pages or so before I really began to connect with Clarkes writing. After that initial rough patch, however, I became increasingly immersed in this absorbing story, eventually
One of the few instances where the movie was better than the book, but not by much. The remarkable thing about this book is how it stands the test of time. The science, the technology, the language, the style, all fit into our modern view as if it was written last week. It was published in 1968, before men walked on the moon, before cell phones, before...well, almost everything we take for granted these days. It is science fiction at it's best.
I remember watching 2001: A space Odyssey about seven years back and almost losing my mind during the overlong Stargate sequence and what followed after that acid trip. *The I might puke face*Fast forward to 2017, one of my buddies called me up and said, 'Sreyas, 2001: Space Odyssey is a fricking classic. You should read the book before watching the movie'. Fortunately, I had a copy of the novel with me and I jumped right in! ❝ If he was indeed mad, his delusions were beautifully organized.❞
If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL: 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. ClarkeI can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait.In "The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke"The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.In
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