Overall: 3 and a half/4 Stars
2001: A Space Odyssey the film was an epic film that captured the imagination and the mind. The movie was just awesome, filled with mind-blowing imagery and great music to top it all off. But, to be honest, it was just a little bit wierd, and the ending didn't really bring everything to a conclusion.
Now, we must thank Arthur C. Clarke, famed British author and inventor, for continuing the story of the space shuttle Discovery and making everything that was once so confusing much easier to understand while still expanding upon the already established universe that the books take place in.
First off, the book is super easy to read, and even if you didn't get 2001 the movie, you'll pretty much immediately understand everything in the book and the movie, and maybe you'll even understand the movie better then you did originally. I know that's what happened to me. The entire story is very interesting because unlike a lot of novels, there really isn't any action, just a lot of internal and external observations that take place onboard a space ship. There really aren't even that many dramatic moments, really, between the crew on the space ship, even in a book that you would expect to have lots of them (I mean eight people onboard one ship for a matter of years, come on). Overall, I was pleasantly surprised with the entire book's structure and narrative, and now I can't wait to go to my local library to pick up 2061: Odyssey Three, the third book in the series.
Overall, if you like science fiction in general or maybe you just liked the movie 2001, this is a great book and I highly recommend it to everyone.
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