Burgers? In the new movie Project Hail Mary. There is clearly an agenda
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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
I don’t think he writes like a Reddit user 😂 but I see your point.
Books that use modern pop culture references I think won’t stand the test of time (See Ready Player One).
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?
Writing like that makes the fake sciency bits sound more real, and that's why people like his books and movies, it's dumbed-down nonsense with no real meaning that any moron can lap up.
There’s definitely a segment of readers who geek out on the science and math that Weir frequently puts into his books.
He caters to those types of readers. I think the Martian movie just took his books mainstream.
Worse than that illiterate retard E.E. Cummings?
Cummings had the advantage of existing prior to reddit.
Yikes.