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2001: A Space Odyssey

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2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke My rating: 5 of 5 stars First of all - Thanks to my buddy for picking this book. I am pretty sure I would have otherwise returned this book without reading Wow. Amazing. Astounding. Brilliant. I am completely lost for words. This is the absolute experience one expects to travel through while reading a science-fiction. Thanks to Arthur Clarke, for taking me through an amazing ride through space-time. Though a few pages in middle made the reading a little tough, when the going gets tough, the tough gets going. The finish, amply made up for the sloppy middle. But no, as the pages sped by, and as I traveled through the Star Gate into the Grand Central, I almost felt like God Himself. Oh yes, the feeling is simply beyond anything that can be expressed in words. If this wasn't breath-taking enough, what can one say of the ending. Spell-binding? Dumbstruck? Oh. anything. Absolutely anything. Half way through the book, I was pretty confident th