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Such a good book. Sadly I can really say what its about because the best way to read the book is with no info at all when you start it since the main character doesn't know who he is or where he is when the story begins.
Its very very good though. There is a movie being made right now based on the book and will come out next year. It stars Ryan Gosling.

If you are looking for a new book then give it a try.
 
Duality of man


I’m with you Fish, ****ing love this book and have read it multiple times. Movie coming next year, always dicey but they have some really good people making it so I’m hopeful.

Audiobook is really good and does some clever things as well.
 
Been listening to the audiobook on road trip w wife over the past year. Still a couple hours to go.

Project Hail Mary could also be the title of Utah's tank season.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
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I’m with you Fish, ****ing love this book and have read it multiple times. Movie coming next year, always dicey but they have some really good people making it so I’m hopeful.

Audiobook is really good and does some clever things as well.
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Ya i always read my books in book form or kindle but my wife already had the audiobook for this one so I just got the audible app and used her copy to listen and I have to say that this is one book that is probably better in audio format and I love the dudes voice for the characters.
Only critique I have is that it was a bit too "sciency" Could have used a bit less data/numbers etc. But I did enjoy that aspect as well and felt like I was learning some things as I listened. Just a bit too much of it imo. Otherwise its been great so far (I haven't finished it yet)
 
fishonjazz said:
Ya i always read my books in book form or kindle but my wife already had the audiobook for this one so I just got the audible app and used her copy to listen and I have to say that this is one book that is probably better in audio format and I love the dudes voice for the characters.
Only critique I have is that it was a bit too "sciency" Could have used a bit less data/numbers etc. But I did enjoy that aspect as well and felt like I was learning some things as I listened. Just a bit too much of it imo. Otherwise its been great so far (I haven't finished it yet)
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Ray Porter is one of the best sci-fi narrators in the business. Good narrators make or break an audiobook, imho.
 
fishonjazz said:
Ya i always read my books in book form or kindle but my wife already had the audiobook for this one so I just got the audible app and used her copy to listen and I have to say that this is one book that is probably better in audio format and I love the dudes voice for the characters.
Only critique I have is that it was a bit too "sciency" Could have used a bit less data/numbers etc. But I did enjoy that aspect as well and felt like I was learning some things as I listened. Just a bit too much of it imo. Otherwise its been great so far (I haven't finished it yet)
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The only sciency bit about it is the details of the ship's construction, which is literally the only part of the story I enjoyed (there is a ton of shallow, made up, science about the star eaters and whatever, but its junk that can skimmed over).

The rest was basically torture.

A junior high school teacher is approached by the government to work exclusively on a humanity defining super secret project because he had written a paper doubting the need for water as a necessity for alien life (laughable set up). He ends up discovering all kinds of things about the aliens that other scientists just couldn't because they don't have his amazing out-of-the-box thinking. He then turned out to have a special gene that exists in 1/7000 people (or something, i don't remember all that drivel), which is needed for deep space travel. Then all qualified people die and he ends up selected to go on the mission. Then all his shuttle mates die, leaving him the only person on the spaceship. Luckily, he's a SCIENTIST, which means he knows everything and can do everything (I imagine the author was jacking off furiously through out the entire writing process). Then he meets an alien who has the exact same unbearable self-assured, know-it-all, personality. The alien might as well have been a clone of the protagonist. So of course they get along splendidly, and everything work out beautifully. It is the most vapid juvenile **** I've read in ages. I hated it so much, I'll never read another book by Andy Weir.
 
Damn bro, it’s a novel, not a thesis. It’s fine if it wasn’t to your taste but there is a hatred in that post that I just can’t fathom for a fun little sci fi romp of a book.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
Damn bro, it’s a novel, not a thesis. It’s fine if it wasn’t to your taste but there is a hatred in that post that I just can’t fathom for a fun little sci fi romp of a book.
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A thread was made about the book, and I've given my review of it. Nothing personal. People are free to feel however they want about it.
 
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