Sunday, May 3, 2015
May. 3rd, 2015 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyIt was just me and Tanya for the last 28 hours and she is having trouble sleeping because of learning to pull up and all that, so my time is weird right now. And I need to finish up my semester next week somehow. So I'll keep this post short in her brief sleeping window. I did want to do a book review, though.
2001:The Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
This book is a lot of fun. It got weird by the end but good weird and I'm glad I read it. Now I might make it through the movie.
I never made it past the first 10 minutes of the movie. But the movie is iconic enough that some knowledge of it petered through and influenced my reading. I knew about the monkeys and HAL. I never seen the movie, yet when I read the book I heard HAL' voice and intonations in the movie voice; it's iconic. That knowledge of the movie influenced how I read. It made sequences with HAL so much more intense since I was waiting for something to go wrong. I was on pins and needles there. I was also surprised how small part of the book the part with HAL really was.
There is a lot of descriptions of space travel which I think really worked. And there are surprises. And fun anachronisms since this book was written in 1968 (he was writing the movie and book at the same time). There is even a Star Gate.
So fun read; classic sci-fi for good reason. Lack of substantial female characters, though, but that's 1968.
2001:The Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
This book is a lot of fun. It got weird by the end but good weird and I'm glad I read it. Now I might make it through the movie.
I never made it past the first 10 minutes of the movie. But the movie is iconic enough that some knowledge of it petered through and influenced my reading. I knew about the monkeys and HAL. I never seen the movie, yet when I read the book I heard HAL' voice and intonations in the movie voice; it's iconic. That knowledge of the movie influenced how I read. It made sequences with HAL so much more intense since I was waiting for something to go wrong. I was on pins and needles there. I was also surprised how small part of the book the part with HAL really was.
There is a lot of descriptions of space travel which I think really worked. And there are surprises. And fun anachronisms since this book was written in 1968 (he was writing the movie and book at the same time). There is even a Star Gate.
So fun read; classic sci-fi for good reason. Lack of substantial female characters, though, but that's 1968.