Instead, Rendezvous with Rama lacked greatly the action and suspense I was looking for, taking me a total of four sittings to read. It just was not interesting. Don't get me wrong, it was an okay book and it did have its pros. The setting was a very interesting aspect of the book. The story takes place in the twenty-second century, where Earth has setup a defense system against the threat of bombarding asteroids.
Scientists soon find an asteroid that turns out to be a gargantuan spaceship.
A huge frozen lake in Ramas center thaws, awakening strange beings. Another aspect of the ship Rama was its enormous size, about that of the state New Jersey. I disliked several things about this story, as well, one being the characters. At first I thought that the whole crew was three people, the main characters of the story. But all through the book the reader is introduced to characters you never thought were there, and then they were never again mentioned.