Burgers? In the new movie Project Hail Mary. There is clearly an agenda
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Everything I've heard about this movie has suggested that the book might be worth a read, but I had no inclination to see this movie from the first I heard of it.
Reading the book, main character is a teacher and he asks students about cLImatE cHanGE and all the students know, next chapter they discover that something in the story needs CO2 as a fuel, but Earth doesn't have enough ...
I couldn't get more than 200 words in. Weir might be the worst writer the human race has ever produced.
Is his writing style that irritating?
Yes. His "technical writing" is vomiting up wikipedia summaries without regard for pace or context. His characters read like 4chan mockeries of reddit users, except the punchline never comes.
If you roll out of bed every morning and say, out loud, "praise science! Time for a cup of go-go bean juice!" then you will love this book.
I HECKIN' LOVE SCIENCE!1!
It took some adjustment but he’s not a bad writer. He has profound technical depth. He actually built a very good character in Dr Grace as a brilliant but flawed individual. He keeps you on the edge of your seat a lot too.
He is mechanically descriptive. Don’t expect any Tolkien like descriptions.
He writes like a Reddit user, yay science and all that. The writing won't last the test of time, it's too couched in modern language
That's great if you're writing an instruction manual, but isn't the point of writing literature to create clear images in the mind of the reader without having to say "The brown and black german sheppard, weighing 43 lbs and standing approximately 1 1/2 feet to the shoulder, jumped 3' 4" inches to clear the top of a hand-build, sandstone wall"? Isn't that why we have things like metaphore and allegory and cultural context?
Or am I missing your point?
Worse than that illiterate retard E.E. Cummings?
Cummings had the advantage of existing prior to reddit.
Yikes.
hard to believe mundane matt manages to spread his influence here.
I thought jarbos complaint was it's not woke enough
90s woke: based on woke principles but not dialed up to 11
Boulder collectorcompuslve false reporter to get videos critical of him taken down.I think the screenshot is accurate to the book fyi. There is a black astronaut and he does start fucking a white woman astronaut. ..but honestly its a pretty small part of the book. Its legitimately not a political book or corrupted by dei. Weir is however not a "based" author and his world view is slightly skewed from living in these woke times.
I rolled my eyes at the whole black astronaut thing honestly. Weir did that thing were hes some kind of savant genius but oh yeah hes black. I don't know why boomers love doing this.
I'm serious its still a great book and there's no blacks in 90% of it.