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Offline CptTrips

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Project Hail Mary
« on: Yesterday at 03:54:40 PM »
Liked the book.
Hopefully the movie is good.  I thought The Martian was good so hoping...



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Re: Project Hail Mary
« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 04:08:34 PM »
I liked the book too.
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Re: Project Hail Mary
« Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 04:33:31 PM »
The novel is fantastic. I'm psyched for this film.
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Re: Project Hail Mary
« Reply #3 on: Yesterday at 04:34:25 PM »
Quote from: Devil 505 on Yesterday at 04:33:31 PM
The novel is fantastic. I'm psyched for this film.

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Re: Project Hail Mary
« Reply #4 on: Yesterday at 07:53:00 PM »
So what's some other good sci-fi reading as of late?
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Re: Project Hail Mary
« Reply #5 on: Yesterday at 08:11:36 PM »
Quote from: AKIron on Yesterday at 07:53:00 PM
So what's some other good sci-fi reading as of late?

I've been digging The Expanse. I know, I'm a bit late to the party.
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Re: Project Hail Mary
« Reply #6 on: Yesterday at 08:50:52 PM »
Quote from: Devil 505 on Yesterday at 08:11:36 PM
I've been digging The Expanse. I know, I'm a bit late to the party.

Read the first book years ago. And watched the series. Maybe I should read more of the books in the series.
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Re: Project Hail Mary
« Reply #7 on: Yesterday at 10:49:50 PM »
I'm listening to the audio book with wife and daughters.  We love it.  We are about half way through, I think.

We'll make sure to see the movie.  We really liked The Martian as well.

I'm a little disappointed they didn't cast Bobcat Goldthwait in the lead, but Ryan Gosling will be pretty good.
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Re: Project Hail Mary
« Reply #8 on: Today at 08:41:47 AM »
Quote from: Brooke on Yesterday at 10:49:50 PM
I'm listening to the audio book with wife and daughters.  We love it.  We are about half way through, I think.

We'll make sure to see the movie.  We really liked The Martian as well.

I'm a little disappointed they didn't cast Bobcat Goldthwait in the lead, but Ryan Gosling will be pretty good.

I listened to it on Audible too.  AS I'm sure you know, the story is uniquely suited for audio.

Bobcat Goldthwait?  Am I not remembering something from the book?  I didn't even know he was still alive. ;)

To be honest I just imagined Matt Damon again.  Weir writes fun stories but to be honest his main characters seem to be one-notes.  The main characters seemed to have the same personality even if they have different backgrounds.  I don't mind.  It makes for a fun story.

Gosling will be an adequate stand-in.  I like most of his stuff.  Well, maybe not The Notebook. ;)

You know Rendezvous with Rama is in production.  That was one of my top 3-4 favorite books.








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Re: Project Hail Mary
« Reply #9 on: Today at 09:58:39 AM »
Though I enjoyed it I was glad to be done reading PHM. One escalating crisis after another. Even more than The Martian. Wears ya out.
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Re: Project Hail Mary
« Reply #10 on: Today at 10:23:44 AM »
Quote from: AKIron on Today at 09:58:39 AM
Though I enjoyed it I was glad to be done reading PHM. One escalating crisis after another. Even more than The Martian. Wears ya out.

Hey dude, saving the galaxy is hard work!

I was think this character is a biologist.  The Martian was a biologist.  They have the same persona.

He should have had Mark Watney retire from NASA to go teach biology and write a paper and end up getting picked for PHM!  The continued space adventures of a snarky biologist!

He'd be the new wise-cracking Gilgamesh in space!  ;)


[Edit]  Well he was a Botanist anyway which is a sub-discipline of Biology.

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Re: Project Hail Mary
« Reply #11 on: Today at 10:47:07 AM »


I have to admit the plot twist at the end was a nice touch.  I wasn't expecting that.

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