Is this the most reddit book in existence? I'm finding it nearly impossible to finish due to the reddit prose >Ermm I'm in space...? And I'm a ... scientist? Come on, megabrain! Science this shit!
>>25154576At the beginning of the book is: "Dedicated to John, Paul, George and Ringo." What the fuck did you expect?
that book was heckin awesome, so maybe check your privilege
>>25155239shut the heck up! the beatles are the best thing since fried bacon
>>25155239John Lennon did famously state the axiom that woman is the nigger of the world (or sex) so he’s fine, the others can fuck off. Also if this is the opening of the book and >>25154576 is actually a line from it… then ready player one has some competition.
it's for the current media landscape, perfect fit for youth like you
>>25154576My boss, who is a really smart guy, listened to this on audiobook and could not stop raving about how amazing it is. Goes to show that STEMcels can't into art or humanities.
>>25155261We would have colonized mars by now if the beatles hadnt terrorized entire generations with their music>>25154576Dont worry about I stopped reading at 17% because I couldnt take the fag science bs anymore. My brain would just refuse to parse any more of these sentences.
>>25155358The audiobook is incredibly well done. I dislike the main character’s personality. I can still admit that the audiobook production was superb.
Had never heard of the book and clocked it as reddit millennial speak garbage after watching ten seconds of the trailer. Everything sucks now, can't even have Goose kino anymore
>>25155383the musical terror started with elvis (and hasn't stopped yet), but yeah
>>25154576Yes, the prose is very juvenile. That's what sells these days.
>>25154576>Ermm I'm in space...? And I'm a ... scientist? Come on, megabrain! Science this shit!Is this actually in the book?
>>25155427conservacuck spottted
>there is a conversation going on about this book
>>25156198Unc! It's Flavor of the Reddit!
>>25156200itt
>>25154576For a generation that supposedly reads a lot, millennials really suck ass at actually writing novels. The prose is the work of an amateur, and the dialogue is grating to read with it's millennial snark.
>>25154576>>25155709How bad is it really?Are you fags just exaggerating it because you like getting mad?I want to read the book and I'm avoiding the movie because of it but I don't want to start reading it and it goes like "wowsers I'm weightless and 10 light years away from Earth BUT I can still feel the weight of my students loans HAHA RIGHT?"
>>25156215They’re exaggerating. It’s fine. It’s a fun read. It’s not on the same level as moby dick or Ulysses. It is “Reddit” sometimes. Who cares. It’s not that bad. I enjoyed most of it.
>>25154576>Is this the most reddit book in existence?no, that's obviously ready player onehowever reddit project hail mary is, it can't be worse than rp1
>>25156250There’s got to be something out there that’s come pretty close to RP1, that art of not giving a f*cky wucky maybe
If it's that bad, how come it's 4.51 on goodreads? That's better than crime and punishment (which sits at 4.29)4.51 is insane
>>25156315people are retarded?
>>25156244>same level as moby dickOh no, it doesn't ramble on about stupid fucking bullshit for thousands of words and there's no gay cannibal romance
>>25156344k-drama series have the same issue on IMDb. The series themselves can be *quite good*, but they're not >9.5 on IMDb
>>25156315accessible enough to be babby's first real scifi and make normies go """ wooooaaaaahhhh sciennccccee"not dumb and sloppy enough to get backlash from the average scifi fan (chuds and autists on 4chins are not representative of the average scifi reader)
Andy Weir is pure hackwork. People will cease to read his books even in his own lifetime.
>>25154576redditisms aside the movie was pretty good
>>25156385What did you think of the flashbacks? I felt like it was unnecessary, like always.
>>25154576>quote on alt cover says: "Original, compelling and fun - Ernest Cline"that's all you need to know
>>25156215I read the book and it was very good, but also exceptionally cringe and Reddit.
>>25156215You know you could just read a sample, right?
>>25156597Imagine showing this to Dickens or Eliot kek.
>>25156315>if it's that bad how come the hoi polloi like it>>25156597This is embarrassing
>>25156597Now post the real excerpt, not your dumb meme version
>>25156597Why?
>>25156631Anon, have you been sleeping for 50 years? This is what your world is now.
>>25156641I've only recently gotten into sci-fi literature, really fell in love with Childhood's EndThey still write them like that r-right
>>25156643Yes, but few read such books.
>>25156597It was litrpg all along
>>25156544>it was very goodLook me in the eyes and repeat it
>>25154576Every excerpt I've seen from this makes it look fucking unbearable. I hope the movie is better.
>>25156315>Midwit basedboy "I heckin' love science!" millennials, who think that Marvel-style quips in every bit of dialogue are hilarious, have rated this book higher than a classic work of literature on some meaningless app.
>>25156631anon, I looked it up and this is real
>>25156597It should be illegal to publish this material. I'm not exaggerating, this shit should be unavailable to human eyes.
>>25154576Its okay for books not be /lit/ I enjoy this and Moby-Dick at the same time.
>>25156608>>25156628>>25156631>>25156987in case you want some more. this is just few pages later
>>25156597MAKE IT STOPWhy do they do this? Even r*ddit makes fun of it call it r*ddit writing.ffsEVERYONE HATES IT
>>25155358intelligence != taste
>>25157191>That thing went through my urethra. Wow.
>>25156315The people who would give it bad ratings already know they won't like it, so they don't read it.
>>25156597why just listen to it on audible?
>>25156597total millenial death
>>25157337True. Also, classics will have probably always more bad ratings, because lots of people were forced to read them in school against their will, so they will always be more critical towards them. On the other hand, niche genres, unknown to most people, have usually their own little fanclubs, that in the euphoria of finding something that satisfies their specific hunger tend to give them overly positive ratings.
Orwell's and Tolstoy's essays are incredibly interesting and well-written works. I was just reading ''A Room of One's Own,'' where Woolf says Charles Lamb's essays are "superior to even Max Beerbohm's . . ." I did not know Charles Lamb wrote essays, so I just bought a bunch. What other great essay writers are out there? I never heard of Max Beerbohm. Anyone have any insight into him?I've read Montaigne, who is interesting, but often kind of desultory and lacking the impact of some of Orwell's or Tolstoy's tighter, more singular essays.Don't bother mentioning David Foster Wallace's essays, which I find every bit as crappy and jejune and throwaway as, you know, David Sedaris's.
>>25157635Whoops, meant to post this as a new thread. Oh well.
>>25157635Wrong thread bro, we're mocking Andy Weir here.
>>25157191This is thinly veiled robot sounding/anal plugging erotica, it's not even subtle.
I find it hard to believe anything can be worse than Ready Player One. When I finished the book I just felt gross.
>>25157191How do people enjoy this shit? It isn't even interesting prose, it's so plain and descriptive, and not even in an interesting way, it's just dry
>>25157981>finished the bookWhy put yourself through that? I’d quit after the first page.
>>25157981Brother, you never read RP2
>>25157285>we're gonna remodel your pee hole
>>25158121Looks like that muv luv vn thingy
>>25156597>dang it>ellipses... yep, it's reddit time
>>25156315This. >muh popular thing badIt's literally all chuds giving incel energy.
>>25156185In his other book The Martian the character literally says stuff like "let's science the shit out of this!" and renames some unit of measurement "pirate-ninjas XD"
>>25159046jesus fucking christ
>>25159052Come on anon, are you really surprised that the "I f#cking love science!" crowd has infantile sense of humour?
>>25156597>>25157191Nominated for the Hugos in 2022, by the way
>>25159128>implying the real STEM scientists aren't the same One of the most famous published physics articles is known as the Alpha-Beta-Gamma Paper, because it was authored by guys named Alpher and Gamow, and Gamow thought it would be fucking hilarious if they also randomly credited another physicist named Bethe, so the author section would read Alpher, Bethe, Gamow. Alpha-Beta-Gamma, get it?
>>25156597>>25157191I'm annoyed that this turned me on
It's a good thing that Catholic values are returning to cinema
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/79106958-project-hail-maryjesus christ
>>25159215its as if an AI fed exclusively on the most upvoted reddit posts was tasked with writing a book. amazing.
>>25159215ANON WHAT THE FUCK
>>25159215>"No, it's not like that," she said.>I stared at her.>She stared at me.>I stared at her.>"Okay, it's exactly like that," she said.” classic
>>25159248
I leaned to Dimitri. “Are all Russians crazy?” “Yes,” he said with a smile. “It is the only way to be Russian and happy at the same time.” “That’s…dark.” “That’s Russian!”
Compare with a book I started reading, released decades prior>no meteorite large enough to cause catastrophe would ever again be allowed to breach the defences of Earth>so began project spaceguard. fifty years later - and in a way that none of its designers could ever have anticipated - it justified its existenceNow THAT'S an introduction to a book
>>25159274Eh, it’s okay, what is it?
“I’m a scientist! Now we’re getting somewhere! Time for me to use science. All right, genius brain: come up with something! …I’m hungry. You have failed me, brain.”
>>25159215this soibot adventure has better rating than anything I have ever read
>>25159281Rendezvous with RamaAlso in 2001 Dave should've said "holy fucking science it's full of motherfucking science shitting stars motherfucker fuck yeah science"
>>25159248Why does he feel the need to say “science” every other sentence?
>>25159286How would you know it's SCIENCE fiction otherwise
this ricks my morty
Get it, it's called project hail mary because it's like a hail mary, do you get it guys
>>25155239brother what
>>25155239>>25159303Oh, I should correct myself. It says: "For John, Paul, George and Ringo." I remebered it wrong. But it's still a dedication.
>>25159326What the fuck did the beatwives have to do with space?
>journey to the centre of the earth by andy weir>alright motherfuckers time to science the shit out of this geology>woah, there's a whole hidden lakey thing here, shaped like a lake, looks like a lake, yep it's a fucking lake
>>25159215Makes Sanderson look like Joyce
you have to read all the slop
>>25159511this is what it takes to become an international bestseller huh
>>25156215I just started reading it, and it's as bad as everyone says, the main character is the definition of quirk chungus.
>>25159573Seems weird to have Ryan gosling play the guy in the movie and not someone like, I don’t know Mark Ruffalo
>>25159215Posting this shit should cop a ban
>>25159170Where is delta, Epsilon and zeta?
>>25159248His penis?
>>25159345I dunno maybe read the thing and find out!
>>25159606XD I’m sold! This looks PEEEAK as the kids say
>>25159573Is Douglas Adams the only one who's able to do this quirk chungus shit without being extremely cringe? I love hitchhikers guide to the galaxy but hate this
>>25159652All quirk chungus writers are cringe, this includes Pynchon
this reads like a kids' book. do adults read this?
>>25159655Pynchon is 4chan incarnate
>>25159652Adams understood that you need to have a "straight man" character to bounce the zany stuff off of
>>25159652Why do you think Douglas Adams isn’t cringe?
>>25159511>>25159326>>25159248>>25157191Kill me pls. There's just no way this can exist. Tell me it's one big joke.
>>25159763you know what? science yourself
>>25159763Joke? Is it not the best prose you've seen in the past 50 years?Jokes aside, if this is what passes for bestselling literature, it gives me hope that I too can become a writer if I work a bit harder
>>25159514Off topic but I'll heem your jaw off weeb.
>>25159511What causes this? Too much or not enough bullying?
>>25159835>bullyingof who?The problem is not just that one idiot wrote shit prose. It's mainly the fact that this book has such colossal audience. That's the real tragedy. The book has 1.3 million ratings on goodreads and the score of 4.51
>>25160022Are those ratings real though? I can't believe so many people think so highly of it. If 50% ++ just listened to the audiobook I'll give them a pass since the audiobook is read really well and lends itself to the prose much better than when read, but still...
>>25155261More like best thing since the narwhal bacons.
>>25160127Speaking of audiobooks, if I wanted to experience a genre fiction book, not that I often do, but I’d probably just listen to it as opposed to actually reading it. I’ve done this before with slop
>>25159511I know full grown men I deeply respect that love and recommend this shit. People's brains are gone man, what the hell is going on?
>>25155261I don't hate the Beatles but I find it disturbing how it seems to have influenced the boomers' ideology so much. Because a lot of it doesn't make sense.>try to argue over some points that they seem to be making in the song>DUDE STOP IT'S JUST A SONG LMAO>but also omg we need open borders because think of the song in the beatles omg mann can't you feel it just imaaggiiine>OMG STOP ARGUING IT'S JUST A SONG>WHO CARES ABOUT THE LABOR MARKET AND CAPITAL FLIGHT just imagine it's easy if you tryyyyyy>DUDE STOP IT'S JUST A SONG
They’re a big cultural phenomenon, probably the biggest of the 20th century. They’re not only loved by boomers but these days zoomers who’ve just learnt that the world exists outside of fortnight and roblox.
>>25160151I remember seeing some progressivist pro-migration march in england years ago, and when I saw the "refugees welcome" banner next to "all you need is love" banner, I thought that the beatlemania was like some epidemy that left people brainwashed into some sort of hippie toxic positivity that's slowly causing their self destruction.
>>25160149I used to hang out with a bunch of guys that love this shit. I decided that I should stop talking to them.
>>25156597The big issue is this is stream of consciousness narration with way too many line/paragraph breaks. This should just be all on giant paragraph since we're just getting the running commentary of what's going through this redditor's mind. That would honestly clean it up so much and make it more readable. Removing some period and commas would help a lot too. Basically reformat this (without changing the actual word) so it looks more Faulknerian/McCarthyian/Joycean as far as stream of consciousness goes. This is why you need good editors.
Ernest Cline still worse
>>25161490as much as I hate Cline, pic related (from ready player 2) is in my opinion better written than >>25156597 and >>25157191
Is there some lit blog/website that would rate this book appropriately? I couldn't find anything on first 4 pages of google results, they all praise this shit
This is one of those kinda books that if even I were remotely interested, I wouldn’t read it but I would maybe consider watching it on a screen. It’s clear there’s no literary value to be found in it. One can infer as much without having read the excerpts posted here.
>>25160151I hope someday you'll join usAnd the world will live as one
>>25161588
>>25161588this passage is more masturbatory than any fetish smut I've written
>>25161588>pic relatedplease stop
>>25160151Modern music as we know it wouldn’t exist without the beatles so STFU.
>>25156315>goodreadsThis says more about the userbase of the site than the actual quality of the work.
>>25161588>pic related (from ready player 2) is in my opinion better written If we're talking sentence-by-sentence, debatable. However the Prince chapter in RP2 is literally the worst thing I have ever read ever in my life.
>>25161588Is this meant to read like a snoy/millennial version of American Psycho?
>>25162728What the hell is a “snoy”?
>This is the "competition".Motivates me to work harder if anything.
>>25162728No, unlike American Psycho it's entirely unironic and earnest.
>>25159792>>25162759but this book is so popular and adored exactly because of how it is writtenif you wrote the same thing with better prose and characters you would get 3.7 stars from few hundred peopleyou can write a better book for sure, but you will never write a more popular book
>>25162698You don't really believe that, do you?
>>25163075I can. Prose which appeals to normies, better underlying themes and characters.I've seen it be done with very "campy" genre fiction that delivers on all of the slop quirks of the genre and inserts some genuinely poignant and beautiful fragments.I'll treat normies into loving things of quality.
>>25163239Trick*
>>25159286we FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE here chud
>>25159248FUCK we're gonna need to science this sh*t extra hard.GET ME MY SCIENCE HATNOW WE'RE SCIENCING WITH SCIENCE
>>25154576>Book written from the perspective of a scientist who lives in our modern "99% of Scientists are Reddit STEM-obsessives with Pop Culture obsessions and painfully little knowledge of the humanities." society, reads like it was written by that type of Redditor. Sometimes you're going to find the main character of a book annoying. That doesn't mean it isn't accurate to reality. The protagonist of the Martian reads equally Reddit-brained, and every actual astronaut who's read that book insists that it's shockingly accurate to what they and their colleagues are like.
>>25159658I just got back from a film forum I browse where adults were calling it the best film of the year. It’s an actual art house film site too.
>>25163393Well maybe the film is less reddit... Right?
>>25163357They're just doing it for PR. Also Weir isn't a scientist. Just a compsci dropout.
>>25159606BROTHER THIS GUY STINKS
The only book of his I've read was Artemis and it was the worst science fiction novel I've ever read.
>>25162698>Modern music as we know it wouldn’t exist without the beatlesyes please
>>25154576How do you make science fiction without being reddit?
>>25163680It’s very easy to not be Reddit. Just don’t be a Redditor. Value prose.
>>25154576>>25155239>>25155261the real redpill is that millennial stomp clamp optimism is far better than the cynical judgemental culture that's trying to push it out. in 5 years when everything is being called corny you'll miss teh dayz of epic bacon, mark my words.
>>25163357The problem isn't that this character is an unlikable redditor. The problem is that all his characters in all his books, men or women, young or old, people of all occupations, they are all the same exact annoying redditor. They all talk and think and joke the same way, they are all him, a self-inserted quirky chungus.
>>25163962I don't know all of his works, but I noticed that even the rock alien is a version of that personality, which is maybe the most absurd thing.
>>25163962That's just not true in PHM. There are only two quirky characters there aside from Grace, and that's Ilyukhina (who is noted to be a jokester) and DuBois, who is not so much quirky as simply autistic.
>>25163590>compsciThis really needs to be removed from the STEM umbrella. 99% of them end up web programming monkeys using shitty dynamically typed languages anyways.
My wife bought me this book as an early Father’s Day gift. I don’t want this crap on my book shelf but I also don’t want to make her feel bad about her gift.
>>25164826Read it, you have to if only for the missus. Post your progress too :)
>>25164826Read the most cringe passages to her so that she never does that again.
>>25164831I read it already. I found the story to be really interesting, but I took the same issue with the cringeworthy prose as everyone else in this thread. I don’t know why she thought it’d be something I’d want to keep forever.
>>25164849Does she know what you like? And is she equally as familiar with what you dislike?
I sneered uncomfortably while reading this part.
>>25164866Closet pedo writing.
>>25164826She must think you're a dumb faggot. At least she didn't buy you a Switch.
>>25156941It's a faithful adaptation. You'll feel the same about both in either direction.
>>25164866Thats funny
>>25164866jesus christ
>>25164866is THIS the thread???
>>25164866Powerful...
>>25164866Want to be a hater but that's an actually funny joke. Point 1 Weir
>>25164866What a terrible writer.I'm so embarrassed for him this got published.
>>25164836this
>>25154576Libturds can’t write sci fi space operas nor can they write medieval stories
>>25169259Yes rightoid chuds are kings of the midwit gene fic
Apolitical chads write the good stuff
>>25169259>>25169270They both are capable of writing utter dogshit. Lefturds make videos about problematic authors and "why what you like is actually bad" but shit out surface level bullshit like a high school creative. Rightoids make videos about their stupid childhood franchises changing and "why what you like is actually bad" but shit out surface level bullshit like a high school creative. What they have in common is they both think they are better than the mainstream, but inevitably write the least interesting crap.
>>25164866XD
>>25169300Which is why >>25169280
>>25157191>>25156597I think the worst part of writers like this, and probably the biggest issue most of fiction has nowadays, is that they don't have nothing to say about life, the world, reality or themselves, so they waste your time with references, these gay attempts at middleschool humor, and dumping quora pop quiz to fill the paper count. Weir it's just a liberal sciencecuck that shaped his stuff influenced by marvel movies and academic feminist education, so the result it's this insipid boring sterelized mess that belongs to kids cartoons, which makes any semi decent Ao3 writer look like William Faulkner in comparision.
Yuck
>>25164826>mfw my wife won't buy the book because she knows it's shit
>>25154576The movie was like r/catsonamps epic. Was like r/r4r sexy. And the banter . . . was like r/beesechurger dank. Mates, go watch this cinematic masterpiece . . . and hats off to OP -- what bacon-licious a thread, lad.
>>25170508It would be helpful, not cool though, if I knew what this post was saying.
>>25164826I can’t imagine being in a marriage with this level of mutual misunderstanding. You can’t even joke about the book being shit with her and laugh at yourselves together??
>>25158054If I didn't finish reading it, the book wins.
>>25154576I have this wishlisted... should I not read it? Didn't the author also make The Martian? That was a neat movie
>>25169300I was unaware politics had anything to do with how you write Is this some americabrained shit where everything has to do with race, gender and politics? It's all so tiresome
ive read it today, to this day i REALLY dont get the hate for Weir books.>MUUUUUH HACKwhy tho? I dont hate the prose, its fine, the meat of his books are the scientist survival at unforgiven places, his books remind me alot to 2001's space oddisey novelization and thats a high big thumbs up in my opinioni like alot the movie
>>25171643You’re ESL aren’t you? That’s probably why the books awful prose didn’t stand out to you, I’m willing to bet.
>>25171606Yes, everything is politics with them. It’s rather annoying.
>>25170870It's the opposite actually.
>>25156196>leftists really believe "reality" has a left wing bias>meanwhile the value of money is based on an agreement not physical material value>Mfw
>>25171606Well it was a Greek who said man was a political animal, not an American. America wouldn't exist for another two and a half millenia.
>>25171681Lemme cut a deal with you, since this board was created by American, maybe one of you can create a board for your kind and just rangeban the entire United States. All of you can post there and we'll stay here.
>>25171733Call it conquest.
>>25156196>conservacuckso you think that you're some kind of a libchad, and that you're on the right side of culture?
>>25171741This board is essentially filled with redditors or /pol/tards. What do you expect?
>>25154576>>25155383What do you mean by fag science? Can you give any examples?
>>25171733Shut up Americhud, diversity is your strength.
>>25156315I am not a /lit/ buff, but having read both Project Hail Mary and Crime and Punishment, I can confidently say that Project Hail Mary is a better product. Sure, it has reddit cringe, but it does a great way at describing the scientific thought process. This would be a great book for children, to spark passion for science in them.Meanwhile, while Crime and Punishment has a lot of good parts, there is also a lot of filler material, like this beating a dead horse part
>>25172430Lmao
>>25159255Stolen from Weird Alhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WN3o0TpFXw
>>25172258Actually, Liam, my strength comes from the milk I suck out of your sister's tits.
>>25155239Back off The Beatles you limp wristed faggot. What do you want it dedicated to? Your mom's hairy muff? The Beatles are an international treasure and you're just some cunt so kindly fuck off
>>25172430dostofags on notice....
I really do love how this book/movie makes the bitches here seethe so much. It's hilarious, really.
>>25172430I believe you. Crime and Punishment was, well… I needn’t quote it.
>>25156214The writer is 53, you idiot.
>>25169770>The EggOh god, he was responsible for that abomination and it was only published in 2009? I stumbled on it like 15 years ago and I just assumed that it was a chain email from the 90s.
>>25156941The dialogue in the movie is actually far more tolerable than this. I wouldn't have watched it if I had seen this thread beforehand.
>Let's science the fuck out of this!>MATH MATH MATH>Erm, hullo? Science? >Step aside. I brought my calculator. >Never fear, differential equations are here!
>>25156353>Oh no, it doesn't ramble on about stupid fucking bullshit for thousands of words and there's no gay cannibal romanceThis but unironically
>>25169761yes
>>25156597JFL i see why this appeals to 80-iq cartoon-watching normies now
>>25154576Usual suspects in the 5-star reviews
>>25159659hes not, hes a reddit-cia libcuck
>>25169280apolitical chads are political, they're just smarter than falling into the current dumbass left-right shit
>>25156597This doesn't really put me off a book I'm otherwise interested in because my brain just interprets it as meaning this is a character with a reddit personality. He's meant to be an initially cowardly nerd who was too anxious and neurotic to work in academia so became a school teacher because it was less pressure and he could be a quirky "cool" teacher. Yes this man might think like this.
>>25161588>remember INDIANA JONES>remember KNIGHT RIDER>remember GHOSTBUSTERSaaaaaaahhhhh>remember BUCKAROO BANZAI>remember all this shit from the 80s>do you wanna see my FUNKO POP COLLECTIONRemember Event Horizon? Remember we don’t need eyes to see?
>>25156215It's a fun story written in a terrible style
>>25173171no
>>25172870Blaming millennials for genx behavior is a time honored zoomcuck tradition.
>>25172697Name your favorite scifi
>>25156215Its a very good, hard to put down book. Excellent at utilizing interesting sci fi concepts as part of a plot you actually give a shit about the same way you would any more grounded story, engenders a lot of affection and warmth, extremely satisfying character interactions and progression and a perfect ending. Its also really, really reddit. You just have to be able to accept that that can be true. These excerpts are from pages with an above average rate of reddit quips and phrasing, but it is pretty common and it is pretty frequent, I can't say they misrepresent it that badly. But the book is also very good. You can take a good book, insert some obnoxious "that just happened" whedon dialogue stuff, but if its otherwise very good it will still be very good. If it helps the main character is plausibly a reddit kind of guy. He plausibly would have this kind of a sense of humour and way of parsing his own thoughts. Him and a few other scientists and stuff who are minor charecters being pretty reddit wouldn't be that surprising. So you can potentially shore up your tolerance if needed by seeing it as annoying but authentic. I found it fine though. Most of it just doesn't bother me like it does other people even though I see what they mean.
>>25174333Don't be so sensible
>>25174333>If it helps the main character is plausibly a reddit kind of guy. He plausibly would have this kind of a sense of humour and way of parsing his own thoughts. Him and a few other scientists and stuff who are minor charecters being pretty reddit wouldn't be that surprising. So you can potentially shore up your tolerance if needed by seeing it as annoying but authentic. I found it fine though. Most of it just doesn't bother me like it does other people even though I see what they mean.You would have a point if this was the only character he wrote that way. Almost all of his characters speak like this.
>>25174333This. Nobody reads Weir expecting him to be an amazing stylist. You read him because unlike "I HECKING LOVE SCIENCE" redditors he actually does a lot of research, has interesting scientifically grounded ideas, and spends a long time taking the reader through his worldbuilding (if you're into that). The reddity writing style is more something you put up with. In the same vein, I'm not going to read KJV and be mad that the language is antiquated. (This is why the movie was terrible BTW, they stripped most of the science out and just kept the "vibes".)
i read genre slop, and im not especially reddit averse, but this book was so reddit and cringe that i could not finish it. the author's midwit smugness was haunting me throughout
>>25176143The soience in his books are bad too if you scrutinize them.
>>25176149There's a degree of "assume this is true, here's where that leads" with all sci fi (e.g. panspermia in PHM being literally true). But if you have some links for more detailed criticism I'm interested.
>>25176157NTA. Goggling gave me this.>For example when he says Rocky has “sacks of ATP” because they have more energy than humans. That makes no sense whatsoever. You have small amounts of ATP that rapidly cycles between ADP and phosphocreatine. ATP is an energy mediator rather than energy storage. The author doesn’t understand basic biology but decided to toss stuff in to sound smart. There are many such examples in any field.
i avoided this thread but i find a weird split, the film and tv chuds are liking this movie for being an original IP that doesnt have some heavy handed libtard message, the author of the book recently went on a podcast with noted film chud the critical drinkerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezZ_QGBpaDowhile 4chan complains about it being "reddit", maybe thats what normies want i guess.
>>25176336Normies want marvel. This movie is marvel without the capes. So not surprising it is popular.
>>25156215It's basically a lab procedural with fantasy sci-fi elements. I really enjoyed it overall. The main problem for me is that it's written in the 1st person and the main character has a personality that's basically Ned Flanders' Reddit account. So you're reading this goober describe everything in his voice. Plus there are only two other meaningful characters in the book, and one of them learns to communicate from the MC. If the author himself was writing his own narration like this I wouldn't be able to read it. As it is, I really like the book but would enjoy it better if the protagonist talked like a normal human.
its a studio slop globohomo book. jews intended it to be made into a movie before it even released, they needed the author to write them a pg13 slop with diversity and shit.just go read “Children of Time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky instead
>>25177168>It's da jooos
Why doesn't he publish a new alternate version with less r*ddit cringe?>Project Hail Mary, Chud edition>now with 90% less onions!Make half of his readers buy the book twice.
>>25154576I thought posting self-harm was banned?
>>25154576Dis nigga Andy retarded I swear to fucking god bro
>>25176336He's also doing a bunch of promotion for the film with Adam Savage who raped his own sister. Pretty grim media campaign why not do a few videos with Kevin Spacey while you're at it you can do cute space puns about his name. I wouldn't be surprised if Weir is onions right
>>25154576I'm not defending Weir or Hail Mary, it's all extremely mid at best, but the important part here is that the vast majority of sci-fi authors are overwhelmingly bad at writing and generally have pretty explicit ideological fixations. Among those, there's nothing outstandingly bad about Weir. His fixation just happens to fit the chud performative "oh my R*ddit" routine.
>>25178280Mid is very generous.
>>25178196who publishes his books?who publishes his movies?it is quite literally the jews. it is always quite literally the jews. people dont just invoke the jews when its not the jews, its the jews dummy.
>>25156597You can always tell whenever an author's desperately trying to follow the worn-out advice of "Your first sentence MUST MUST MUST hook the audience it MUST". I fucking hate whenever it's so blatant. Reddit loves to use that shit, too>>25157191Dude's clearly never had a catheter removed, what a shit way of describing that
>>25160154>but these days zoomersStop deflecting, millennialtard, this is very clearly the type of shit your generation's infamous for cumming over
>>25174333>>25176143So he's a poor man's Vinge?
>>25157191This looks perfectly fine for YA. If I were 10-12 again, I would've loved this.
>>25178348Zoomcucks crawling to 4chan from reddit and twitter to accuse us of being redditors never gets old. Actually, it's very old. Change the channel.
>>25154576That's simply how contemporary fiction is written.
>>25154576I couldn't finish it either. It's bad and boring. I was surprised they've made a movie about it. Hollywood writers are so bad they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. What's next? A Sanderson movie?
>>25178798I'm curious, have you ever read anything like The Andromeda Strain? Laboratory scifi is its own thing that may not appeal to you.
>>25178856No, at least not finished. What is the appeal?
Not really surprised his writing style is cringe, I mean he's also one of those brainlets that say "keep social commentary out of entertainment" while simultaneously saying Star Trek is one of his favorite franchises.
>>25171710this
>>25155267Yoko Ono said that, not John Lennon. Who wrote a song with her called that after she used it in an interview.By that she meant that women are treated badly the world over in the same way that she thought black people were treated poorly in the US. It doesn't mean she thinks women are bad.It's like saying "women are the slaves of the world" or "women are the downtrodden of the world".
>ive read it today, to this day i REALLY dont get the hate for Weir books.tactical death of the author when he's not metapolitically useful to one's Left vs. Right dialectic.
>>25159215Anon, you can't post gore on a blueboard.
>>25159284>umm HAL... You're not going "humanity-ending killer robot" on me, are you? I'm a monkey who taught rocks to think and made steel buildings fly by containing an explosion until it overcomes the attractive force of an entire planet. Are you sure you want this heat?
>>25163393films can get away with it since they are about spectacle, and the writing is a small part that can be compensated by cinematography, score, acting, etc. Jurassic Park is just as reddit but it's one of the best films ever made, even the most snobby film buff would agree.
>>25172473Oopsie daisy! Did I just insult your favourite boyband?
>>25178542What book is this? Surely YA?
>>25154576Go read Greg Egan's Diaspora then. Dropping books I can't keep myself reading did me wonders. Not a single millenial character in it.>>25155261>he beatles are the best thing since fried baconOne more success case for joint CIA-M16 psyops
>>25169770Wait so this guy isn't even a millennial then. And my question is why is there so much dialogue? I tend to not go past the first page if there is mostly dialogue. My last question is which millennial authors have written decent work?
