> “Rendezvous With Rama” - Aurthur C. Clark
Got hooked and ended up reading the whole series. For me, Arthur C Clarke has a way of drawing you into a story where you can’t put the book down.
Honestly, I am not much of a reader of fiction (the truth of every day during these times is far stranger).
However, I have to completely agree with you regarding Clarke's ability as a storyteller. I have read Childhood's End twice, and both times I totally tore through it like Sherman across Georgia to the sea.
Funny personal story... the first time I was reading that book I was young and working for the railroad, living the bachelor paradise life in a railroad caboose. The night that I was near the end of the book and all the suspense was coming to a head was a nice summer night and I had the end doors open so the breeze would blow through. Right at the very moment the book was right AT very climax of the story, 2 railroad yard stray kittehs chasing each other jumped onto the end of the caboose and RAN FULL SPEED through the car right next to me on laying on the bunk gripping the book... it scared the complete crap out of me.