Burgers? In the new movie Project Hail Mary. There is clearly an agenda
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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).
I'd put em in a similar ballpark. It's the new airplane novel for men, rather than stuff like Louis L'Amour
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.