I am close to finishing the audiobook. Less than three hours left, and I find myself making excuses to drive so that I can listen to it.Rule Number 32 said:
Finished the book yesterday and now I get it. That ending. Was. Fantastic.
*** PROJECT HAIL MARY *** (Ryan Gosling)
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Canyon Lake Agbu94 said:I am close to finishing the audiobook. Less than three hours left, and I find myself making excuses to drive so that I can listen to it.Rule Number 32 said:
Finished the book yesterday and now I get it. That ending. Was. Fantastic.
Lol yep - I went and mowed the yard just so that I could have an hour to finish it without the kids all being crazy around me. I was confused as to how he was going to wrap it up but I honestly can't think of a better finish to that story.
I started the audiobook again a few days ago after seeing the trailer. There are maybe 1 or 2 other books I've listened to more than once and this one certainly deserves to be in that category.
Holy Moly! Thank you all you glorious generous fans of movies / books / near light speed space travel / the Sun for pushing the trailer for Project Hail Mary past 400 million views – the most in one week for a non-sequel non-remake original film trailer… ever. Can’t wait to… pic.twitter.com/b1UzDy3lH7
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Funny thing, the people I hear that don't live the book tells me more about them than it does about the book.
The book is good, and entertaining, but we all should admit that Rocky is the ultimate deus ex machina. Some of the engineering tasks he's tasked with doing (and pulls off perfectly!) are pretty unbelievable. "Rocky, I need a tank where I can control N2 dosing down to 1ppm, I won't give you any more details than that!"
I still enjoyed the book a great deal but some of those moments were a little eye-rolling.
I still enjoyed the book a great deal but some of those moments were a little eye-rolling.
Not sure I agree. A major part of the conflict regarding Rocky's race is their ignorance to a lot of the fundamental physics of the universe. They are incredible engineers and understand materials at and advanced level, but don't understand a lot of the "why". Dr.Grace made a good foil to that with his conceptual science knowledge, but lacked the ability to build the necessary tools in a space environment to work on their hypotheses.MattAg06 said:
The book is good, and entertaining, but we all should admit that Rocky is the ultimate deus ex machina. Some of the engineering tasks he's tasked with doing (and pulls off perfectly!) are pretty unbelievable. "Rocky, I need a tank where I can control N2 dosing down to 1ppm, I won't give you any more details than that!"
I still enjoyed the book a great deal but some of those moments were a little eye-rolling.
MattAg06 said:
The book is good, and entertaining, but we all should admit that Rocky is the ultimate deus ex machina. Some of the engineering tasks he's tasked with doing (and pulls off perfectly!) are pretty unbelievable. "Rocky, I need a tank where I can control N2 dosing down to 1ppm, I won't give you any more details than that!"
I still enjoyed the book a great deal but some of those moments were a little eye-rolling.
Shut up brain, and let me enjoy this.
That's how you handle situations like that.
Jazz Hands excited for this to premiere.
Yes yes yesCrawfordAg said:
Jazz Hands excited for this to premiere.
Can't wait for scary space monster and leaky human friendship.
V8Aggie said:
Can't wait for scary space monster and leaky human friendship.
I was dying at that interaction. Hilarious
In. Enjoyed the book except the ending.
SoTxAg said:
In. Enjoyed the book except the ending.
What was wrong in your opinion? I loved it.
We're getting awfully close to spoiler territory, guys. Or at least risking someone accidentally spoiling something. Please take any legit book decision to a separate thread, please.
Won't spoil anything but I absolutely loved this book and cannot wait for this movie.
2008and1 said:
Won't spoil anything but I absolutely loved this book and cannot wait for this movie.
Bonus points for Ryan Gosling making it easy to convince my wife to watch it too.
SoTxAg said:
In. Enjoyed the book except the ending.
I asked Chat GPT to write an epilogue from the perspective of earth when the beetles arrived and gave it a whole bunch of additional parameters that I would have like to have happened. It was quite satisfying and gave me the closure I wish the book had.
TCTTS said:
We're getting awfully close to spoiler territory, guys. Or at least risking someone accidentally spoiling something. Please take any legit book decision to a separate thread, please.
Start a no spoilers thread then.
And you're doing yourself a disservice not reading the book.
Even more so than Dune, THIS is the movie to read the book before seeing the movie.
I started *this* thread to talk about the MOVIE, thank you very much. It's on book readers to start a thread about the BOOK. This board has operated this way for as long as I can remember. One thread for spoiler-free movie talk, another thread for book talk. It's not a big ask at all. You cannot seriously think it's okay to freely talk book spoilers here.
TCTTS said:
I started *this* thread to talk about the MOVIE, thank you very much. It's on book readers to start a thread about the BOOK. This board has operated this way for as long as I can remember. One thread for spoiler-free movie talk, another thread for book talk. It's not a big ask at all. You cannot seriously think it's okay to freely talk book spoilers here.
True. Nothing was really spoiled here tho.
I will say again that if you haven't read the book you're doing yourself a disservice.
It's that good.
The book is even better than The Martian in my opinion.
Chipotlemonger said:
The book is even better than The Martian in my opinion.
For sure.
But the movie combo is yet to be determined.
Martian movie book is my favorite ever.
Great book, I didn't even know this was coming out, sucks that it's next year.
TCTTS said:
We're getting awfully close to spoiler territory, guys. Or at least risking someone accidentally spoiling something. Please take any legit book decision to a separate thread, please.
No one really has. Not even close.
Someone directly asking another poster "What was wrong with [the ending of the book]?" is literally one post away from the ending of the book being spoiled, should the poster answering the question forget to use spoiler tags. Never mind any potential discussion of the ending that were to come after. So, yes, we were objectively close to spoiler territory, which I was simply trying head off in a thread meant to discuss the movie and not book spoilers.
Sorry that has inexplicably rubbed some of you the wrong way.
Sorry that has inexplicably rubbed some of you the wrong way.
TCTTS said:
Someone directly asking another poster "What was wrong with [the ending of the book]?" is literally one post away from the ending of the book being spoiled, should the poster answering the question forget to use spoiler tags. Never mind any potential discussion of the ending that were to come after. So, yes, we were objectively close to spoiler territory, which I was simply trying head off in a thread meant to discuss the movie and not book spoilers.
Sorry that has inexplicably rubbed some of you the wrong way.
There's a long way left before we can light this firecracker. Might as well go ahead and read the book just to be safe.
Ol_Ag_02 said:TCTTS said:
Someone directly asking another poster "What was wrong with [the ending of the book]?" is literally one post away from the ending of the book being spoiled, should the poster answering the question forget to use spoiler tags. Never mind any potential discussion of the ending that were to come after. So, yes, we were objectively close to spoiler territory, which I was simply trying head off in a thread meant to discuss the movie and not book spoilers.
Sorry that has inexplicably rubbed some of you the wrong way.
There's a long way left before we can light this firecracker. Might as well go ahead and read the book just to be safe.
For sure.
It's such a quick read too.
It's a 4 year old book. I'd guess everybody clicking on the thread has read the book and if not, they should know better. At what point do we run out of statute of limitations for spoiler alert?
FIDO*98* said:
It's a 4 year old book. I'd guess everybody clicking on the thread has read the book and if not, they should know better. At what point do we run out of statute of limitations for spoiler alert?
I'm sorry, but there is absolutely no way this statement is remotely true. This thread has been clicked on over 7700 times, and sure, a large portion of those are multiple views by the same posters, but even factoring that in, to think the book has been read by the majority of visitors to this thread is laughable. Also, this is how the board has operated for YEARS. We've never, ever freely talked book spoilers in threads like this. How some of y'all are twisting this to justify not simply starting a book thread is ridiculous.
I just don't understand the tantrum when no spoilers have been shared. Hell, the trailer has been the biggest spoiler of this thread
There is no tantrum being thrown. I made ONE level-headed request and then the rest of my post in that regard have been replying to the handful of people who think that a thread that I started should be devoted to freely talking book spoilers, when this board has never once operated that way.
Your last post seems borderline tantrum, but neither here nor there.
Again, no spoilers have been given. I feel like 80%+ of this thread activity was talk about how many spoilers were in the trailer. But carry on
Again, no spoilers have been given. I feel like 80%+ of this thread activity was talk about how many spoilers were in the trailer. But carry on
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