Radu Muresan

Story : Well, the story is not very interesting: a dude creates a monster and has to stop it from doing bad things, but the characters really bring this story to life. I like how it is told and the jumps between past and present.

Characters : Yeah, I love all of them. Frankenstein is an inteligent person who wants to create revolutionary stuff, but when he acknowledges that he created a monster, he decides to stop it. Contrary, the monster is a very likable person who only wanted to do good things for people, but when he is treated like trash, he starts to hurt people, especially his creator. I felt so sorry for him and I understand why he did what he did... poor fella.

Overall : I was lucky to get the Deluxe version of this book (kinda), which is filled with illustrations and fun facts, so every time I read a page, I kinda saw the summary in one drawing... so beautiful and scary! Great story about wanting to be human... I just want to hug Frankenstein's creation.

I don't think I've read more vivid descriptions than these, but still, a bit too much sometimes.

More like a 3.5/5

Story: well told and sometimes it made me look away (I know it sounds weird)
Characters: well developed and sometimes I had sympathy for Alex so yeah, Anthony Burgess managed to make me like a horrible criminal
Feeling: disgusted when it was disgusting, happy, but sad at the same time when Alex was beaten
Overall: a great story about a psycho

Story : Another take on alien's arrival... it's a great one! One cylindrical shape comes into our solar system and astronauts and scientists are sent to investigate it. It was so weird to read this because I was expecting something else, like aliens and you know... aliens, but this is just a look at what other creaturesc can create. The last pages where Rama goes to that star, I was like ,,Newton seems like a baby now”. Also, the descriptions of the places inside Rama were great and there are even some intense scenes... I don't want to go to New York now.

Characters : We have a lot of people inside Rama and Norton is our main protagonist. He seems like a cool guy and he doesn't risk his people's lives, so that's good. The others are there... friends and co-workers. We don't find things about them or very little, so if someone died, I didn't really cared, except from Norton, of course. There are also scenes with politcal stuff... ehh, I've seen a lot of them so...

Overall : I am so curious about Rama 2, but it seems like this story has ended perfectly... idk, maybe I'll check it out!