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While it is true that the AI is a better character than any of the human character and it is very dry, it does explain everything clearly and gives you a lot to think about. This is what books and Arthur C. Clarke can do really well. Ask big questions and really make you think.

Check out our discussion about it on our Mind Duck Books Podcast ep.60: https://bit.ly/3S8tGMB

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Read this before re-watching the film. A very interesting way to have a movie develop (created by director and author) before having a novel to follow. Very enjoyable read though, and currently enjoying the sequel!

Finished my book club read yesterday & am rewatching the movie for the discussion on Tuesday. I'm glad I read the book now, which has more details. Feel free to join the discussion if you want: https://meetu.ps/e/Mnp5L/zxXbQ/i
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I‘ve seen the film twice before and read the book twice too. But this third reading was the first time that I‘ve read it days after seeing the film which, incidentally, was the first time I had seen it at the cinema. They compliment each other so well. Both are simply beautiful works of art. I‘ve now become slightly obsessed.

Of all of the genres that I currently read, sci-fi is high on my list of personally acquired tastes. Although I have always admired stories & movies of the mindbending & conceptually driven variety (typically involving time travel & questions of reality/identity) I have tended to shy away from the genre until the past few years. Clarke's 2001 is a strange beast. Although Clarke has sole authorial credit, it was co-authored with Kubrick the (cont)

Basil made his opinion clear about this one 😂

I was pretty much enjoying this until the last 40 pages or so. Then the story took a hard right turn and I don‘t think I‘m into sci-fi enough to appreciate the ending. Instead I have a headache 😵‍💫

But! August #doublespin complete (this was also my double spin for March, but I didn‘t get to it) and another #1001books under my belt

Written in 1968, I think Clarke succeeded in creating a story that still holds up today. I should watch the movie someday.

Updating my bullet journal while listening to the tagged book.
I started a bullet journal before but failed to keep track and didn't like how it turned out. Keeping it simple this time and just adding the books I read in the last 3 years.
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This is one book I have never read, but corrected this over the weekend. This was a more enjoyable read than I was expecting, and now looking forward to getting to 2010, the next book in the Space Odyssey Series.

2nd book finished for #MarvellousMarch

Next up in #MarvellousMarch is an audiobook of 2001 : A Space Odyssey. Never read this.

Finally got around to this. It was surprisingly good. I should read more SciFi.
#1001books

Conceived of 50+ years apart, these 2 books represent the #conflictedworlds prompt #technology. In Clarke‘s story, the HAL9000 computer becomes more powerful than human cognition (or so it imagines...); whereas Turkle‘s subtitle evokes current dilemmas: “Why we expect more from technology and less from each other”!!

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This sci-fi “classic” exceeded my expectations! The only thing I‘ve known about the book or film all involve HAL 9000. There‘s is so much more to the story than a computer going rogue on a space mission. I absolutely loved the beginning and end. Everything in between kept me pretty engaged too. I think the story is interesting enough that this would appeal to most readers, even those who typically don‘t typically read sci-if. 4/5
#bookspinbingo

What a trip! … he was not quite sure what he would do next …

It‘s been over 50 years since this was originally published.

The author indicates that this book was written as a movie tie-in BEFORE the movie was filmed. He worked with Stanley Kubrick. This was interesting.

The book starts out very slow. About halfway it picks up & takes off. Since it‘s a movie tie-in I‘ll imagine that you all know the story. It‘s earned it genre as a classic but I still prefer the movie.

Great book, read it!

⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

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For such a small book, only 224pges, it sure packs a lot in. It has 4 distinct parts, the 1st with prehistoric man, the 2nd the finding of the slab on the moon, 3rd the journey with HAL the homicidal AI then the evolution of the star child. It reminds me a great deal of the movie Contact with Jodi Foster it some ways, the last section particularly. Its one of those books that I‘ll find myself thinking about for a long time.5⭐️ #MarchUnshelfing

“They were usually christened with feminine names, perhaps in recognition their personalities were sometimes slightly unpredictable.”

Sexist much? You know you‘re reading something written in the 20th Century or earlier when you come across lines like this! #nottheonlyunpredictablesex

EDIT: In light of this, it‘s ironic that it‘s the male named computer that becomes homocidal🤔 #foodforthought

Hey everyone👋Had to give my eyes a break yesterday after this weekends readathon, but I‘m back and finally getting around to reading this SciFi classic. I‘ve seen the Kubrick movie a few times, that was a director who could convey majesty & mood, but I‘ve never actually read the book. So far so good🚀 #MarchUnshelfing #challenge

The book of that inspired the film was published in 1968.

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It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but perhaps men were barbarians, beside the creatures who had made this thing.

I didn't actually sign up to teach this literature of science and technology class, but it's turning out to be a very happy accident 🌌

Deliberate error was unthinkable. Even the concealment of truth filled him with a sense of imperfection, of wrongness--of what, in a human being, would have been called guilt. For like his makers, Hal had been created innocent; but, all too soon, a snake had entered his electronic Eden.

Lesson planning 🛰️ #sciencefiction

#QuotsySept19 Day 27: #Ancestor

A must read if you‘ve only seen the film

While I was enjoying the Fiction Readers Summit, my fellow littens were filling my mailbox with #ListyLove. I did make time to buy this cute coffee cup stamp & ink as well as these beautiful washi tape rolls to decorate my replies. Tagged book is one mentioned in one of my letters. #frs

And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do🎶
#spaceoddity #maymoviemagic @Cinfhen @rohit-sawant

Shortlist for Arthur C. Clarke 2019 awards link: https://www.tor.com/2019/05/09/announcing-the-2019-arthur-c-clarke-award-shortli...

#BookMail Pt6 I‘m obsessed with these special editions of SciFi classics. All come with a foreword by Neil Gaiman & look spectacular. My only tiny gripe is the way the writing on the spine is back to front. I now have Neuromancer, Dune, 2001 & on order is Stranger In A Strange Land & The Left Hand Of Darkness. The only one to get now is The Once And Future King. Does anybody else feel compelled to get all the books in a special edition series?

Naturally a Clarke written book adaptation of seminal film is gonna be pretty good. Unfortunately, because ideas from the book/movie have been stolen so many times, it‘s getting difficult to be blown away by the original work. Maybe because I‘ve seen the film or because I‘ve seen countless films inspired by 2001, I wasn‘t completely amazed by the book. That‘s quite a shame because this story is still the strongest.

Gym time this morning so it‘s time for a few lazy hours with the stinkers. Book should be finished soon. I‘ll start another before my swanky dinner tonight. We‘re going to a local Italian restaurant to eat a meal created my former contestants of Hell‘s Kitchen. It‘s my first fancy meal! #dogsoflitsy #helpiamtrapped #scifi

Work day done and backyard mowed. Time to hit that backlog!

“I can feel it Dave...”

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Woah, that was trippy. I need to read the rest, I must know what happens 😂😂😂

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
1. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne and 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
2. I love the feel and look and hardcover, but paperbacks are cheaper, but either way I prefer a physical copy, nothing against e-readers though. 😅
3. The Great Gatsby 😪😪 just couldn't do it.

Woo! Approaching part 3, can't wait to see what's in store 😎

✨“Those who had begun that experiment so long ago had not been men or even remotely close to human, but they were flesh and blood and when they looked out across the deeps of space, they had felt awe and wonder and loneliness.” ✨

Photo from babaktafreshi on Instagram!!!

#scifi

“Free at last from the tyranny of matter”

I. ADORE. THIS. BOOK.

I didn‘t expect to like it as much as I did. Came in with low expectations since I had already seen the movie and enjoyed it...fell asleep to it...thought it was weird...as ya do.

However, I literally just finished it and I already want to read it again. I may have a new favorite book.

#RRSciFiMonth Day 23: I can‘t do that Dave

Turns out HAL is still the most villainous AI in my collection - I like my AIs sympathetic, apparently!

The book and the film were done concurrently; Clarke would watch some of the dailies each day and go back and tweak the book, which was only two-thirds done when shooting started.
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