August 2022 Book Club - Project Hail Mary

I totally loved this one! 5 stars!

I went in to this with a healthy dose of skepticism. I wasn't sure that I would enjoy a space story. Well, I was totally wrong. I didn't want to put it down. Great characters, great dialogue. Now I have to go read The Martian!

 

I loved this one, too! It's also outside my normal sphere of reading, but I enjoyed it SO much! His sense of humor was so delightful, and I was sad to see it fade as the book went on. Such a compelling read, though, and I even convinced my son to read it. He's 14 and spent SIX HOURS reading this book yesterday. I call that a win! Apparently deals have been negotiated to make a moving starring Ryan Gosling - not at all who I would have chosen, but I guess we'll see.. Now I want to read The Martian. I haven't seen that movie, either, but I'm definitely a fan of Andy Weir now.

 

I think Ryan Reynolds would have been a better choice!

 

same and same!

 

I'm joining in so I can motivate myself to read more. I got this book at the library and hasn't started reading it when my daughter asked if she could read it. She is almost done with it so I decided to grab the June bookb instead and will start that one this week. I better read it before she grabs it

 

I read the Martian before the movie came out, and I thought Matt Damon would totally tank as the lead character. But after the movie I admitted to myself that he was great in that role. So I'm willing to give Ryan Gosling a chance I actually could see Matthew McConaughey in the role too.

 

My son ended up reading both The Martian and Artemis by Andy Weir after finishing Hail Mary. We watched The Martian together when he was finished. I actually thought it WAS Matthew McConaughey in The Martian before we watched it, so I'd be a vote for him in Project Hail Mary.

 

This sounds fantastic! Gonna download on Audible. I listen to books while I mow the lawn.

 

The Audible book is very well done. I think you'll really enjoy it.

 

I started! It is VERY good!!!!

 

I’m doing the audio book and loving it!

 

I did too! So far, this is a favorite book (audiobook) in a long, long time.

 

I loved the audio book. There are many parts where "hearing" really helps tell the story!

 

I'm a few years late to the book party for this one but DS read this while we were in Japan in April and it made me get my act together and push it up my 'to listen to' list - the audio was awesome

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the music notes that Rocky was talking in were played on the audio, DS said he can't remember but he thinks the ebook just had 'tones' or something written when they were having conversations and learning language

- DS told me when it was half way through that it was being filmed with Ryan Gosling and I was already picturing him so it works for me. I've had a serious book hangover since this one and glad it seemed to work out and have everything resolved

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with the sun being saved and him living on rocky's planet in the dome thing teaching their 'kids' science

. I don't usually like flashbacks etc but dealing with the memory isues worked for that and given DS devoured this book and said he learnt more science and physics from it than in his own classes, i'd give it a bonus star if that was even mathematically possible.