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Title: A sad and bitter end to Clarke's visionary career
Review: Having grown up reading Arthur C. Clarke books, I was expecting to be challenged and intrigued anew by the genious behind 2001, Rendezvous with Rama and Songs of Distant Earth. 3001: The Final Odyssey is proof of the horrible decline in his faculties. He seems more concerned with pontificating on the wisdom of his past positions (like the Millennium falling on 2001) than on developing any new ideas. This book managed to ruin my appreciation for the earlier books in the series. I cling to the hope that Clarke is actually too infirm to write and 3001 was ghost-authored by some well-meaning but untalented assistant. As the saying goes, I am less enlightened for having read it.
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