2001: A Space Odyssey

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2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)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 that this book was going to be "just another I, Robot", but I was soon to be mistaken, for there is no other book like this that was ever written, and none like the 2001 space odyssey shall ever be written by mankind - for Arthur Clarke is the one and only Ultimate Creator.

Though the book leaves a couple of loose ends and unanswered questions, I wouldn't bother about them too much.

And the movie, oh the movie. They did make a movie out of this holy book, and what can I say of it? Not much of an experience. The travel through nothingness wasn't comparable with the book by any means.


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