I skip all the scenes where Rocky isn't around. He's the only reason to read this crap. I love it when aliens are friendly and we get to explore a different kind of consciousness. There should be more novels focused on aliens being bros.
>>25302914Either read all of it, or none of it, idiot. Otherwise it's "I only read the dialog" tiktok girlie type shit. There's nothing wrong with the other parts of the book. You're just being contrarian because /lit/ is shitting on it.
>>25302920Rocky is the only interesting part of the book. This is a simple fact.
>>25302914Did you get inspired for this post by the black women talking about how they skip everything in their romance books that isn't dialogue?
>>25302924No? I'm not terminally online so I don't know what you or >>25302920 mean by that. Why is my thread getting targeted?
I thought people here were exaggerating but it really is a terrible very bad book. The reddittisms are the least of its problems. Half of the book takes place doing bullshit on earth, which wouldn't be bad if every character wasn't annoying as shit. Grace cries every time he thinks about the dead crew members but not once we see him develop any relationship with them. The russian's character is>she likes le vodkathe chinese is>he's seriousThe german boss lady is just a power fantasy.Why even have an ensemble of characters at this point? Grace is supposed to be this lonely detached guy with nothing to lose but somehow everyone likes him, and he calls them friends for some reason. I also wasn't sold on him being such a coward as to threaten the survival of humanity because he doesn't want to die in 4 years but is perfectly ok with dying in 20 in a far more horrific way. Rocky was a complete useless moron who needed Grace to spoonfeed anything scientific to him and even save his ass at the end lol. Apparently physics envy is something that happens in stem circles and it looks like Weir suffers from it. He just wants to prove he understands REAL science. Why else spend all that time painfully detailing everything about physics but not the software Grace wrote to talk to Rocky? Why would Andy Weir the software engineer do that? I liked the relativity bit, he could have gone deeper in it. I did some research into what's actually happening in relativistic physics and form the little I understood it's fascinating. It makes sense even though it feels wrong. It could be used to delve deeper into the workings of the universe with some reverence and a sense of awe or bring humanity into perspective by highlighting how doomed any space expedition is due to the fact the austronat will die to the world and it to him even if he makes it back. I suspect Weir doesn't really understand it and just plugged numbers into a calculator. Whenever he brings up relativity he goes "That's relativity for ya weird huh? haha my brain just did an epic science fart".Not worth a read there's better slop out there
>skipping scenes just because he just doesn't like itThe consequence of american education.
>>25303128I'm not american.
>>25303332i am
>>25303344Ok.
