Absolutely hated the ending to project Hail Mary.

Great book. For something that left me with a similar feeling, check out The Time it Never Rained by Elmer Kelton.

Edgar Wallace - The Peculiar People. I read it in a bed and breakfast in the Lake District 50 years ago. Some absolute swine had torn the last page out and I never did find out whodunnit,

Yes read the book. It has so much more depth to the problem solving and includes more of his screw ups along the way. It also really shows how he uses his humor to cope and a lot of that didn't make the movie (was also a lot more creative silly cursing). I also love the movie but there's a lot of technical working through stuff that they have to cut to have it flow smoother (and shorter) and be easy for the masses to understand.

Of course. It just requires an incredibly creative and artistic mind. Most new genres are a combination of other genres (these genres don't have to be from the same media. Look how silent film combined itself with expressionism in the 1920s) we've seen musicians come up with strange combinations that could only be described as it's own genre (for example station to station by Bowie) so why shouldn't authors embrace the idea of creating a new genre. Though if an author is going to do this it's best off happening as an accident. Let your world, and your story , and your characters dictate your genre.

The book is 10 times funnier than the movie, the internal monologues that he has, is sort of addressed in the movie but they dont really focus on it. I have several favorites that are laugh out loud moments for me.

“Things are finally going my way. In fact, they’re going great! I have a chance to live after all!

LOG ENTRY: SOL 37 I am fucked, and I’m gonna die!”

This. The most important thing is to read something that you enjoy reading. Then it won’t feel like homework. I have to read a lot for my job and it’s very hard to separate work reading from fun reading, so I have a certain author that I always go back to when I’m getting burned out and I always walk away with renewed passion.

What this person said. I did that this year and am happy I did!

I read it at 18 and it hit me just as hard.

>If I were to read this book again, I would only read up to the part until stupid Tom comes back in.

you're in good company, it's often been pointed out that the ending of the book is a cop-out

it's still a great book though

Modern life provides endless distractions and can leave us feeling that we are doing something wrong as there are not enough hours in a day to do what we ‘like’. Reading for leisure is such a pleasure (I didn’t mean it to come out like that but….). Allocate half an hour or so every day and stick to it. And enjoy!

Here is a recent post from the author of Beneath the Dragon Eye Moons.

https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/12641eu/a_creatives_route_to_fire/

"This year I'm looking at roughly $500k total income on the extremely conservative side, closer to $600k if I'm a little more aggressive with my estimates. Patreon's about half of that, with Amazon being the other half. Within Amazon, KU is 70% of my income."

Here is a recent post from the author of Beneath the Dragon Eye Moons.

https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/12641eu/a_creatives_route_to_fire/

"This year I'm looking at roughly $500k total income on the extremely conservative side, closer to $600k if I'm a little more aggressive with my estimates. Patreon's about half of that, with Amazon being the other half. Within Amazon, KU is 70% of my income."

If you check out their Patreon they are at $30k/mo! So RR will let you build your audience but then you need to monitize those eyeballs somehow at it looks like 50% is Patreon and 50% is Amazon.

In order to cure your audiobook phobia I would like to recommend any Terry Pratchett audiobook read by Stephen Briggs. That guy is an absolute treasure.

Absolutely agree with people on here. Read the book. If you liked the movie, you will love the book. I cannot remember the last book that both had me on the edge of my seat and laughing my butt off while reading.

hehe genz.

anyway ill get to reading it again then. i really hope it gets as exciting as it once was.

really appreciate your response!

I hope you like potatoes. Yes, read the book.

Ah yes well a short attention span is very common with the Netflixes and TikToks.

The last half of the book is the best because it ties a lot of stuff together that you absolutely haven’t figured out yet.

But honestly, slave through it. It’s going to be a deflated experience if you skip half the book and it’s not a bad thing to think some parts of a book aren’t very exciting.

If it weren't for my public library, I wouldn't have access to books as a kid. We grew up poor. While we would make the occasional trip to the bookstore, we made many more trips to the library.

Maybe I was sheltered, but I don't ever recall trying to read sexual content? Seems like a stretch...

Books are not just written for some plot that you may 'miss things' on. The writing of a tree is apart of the book and the prose, which is the book. More than just a plot, otherwise you would read a wiki synopsis

it is making sense still, but my question is, will it get as exciting as it was at the start? i have read very few non fiction books, and this one too seems to not interest me anymore

“Purple” prose is not gauged by any objective measure, and that subjectivity means that all but the most spartan of writing will be labelled as “purple” by someone. There are certainly hallmarks of good and bad prose, and general rules one should follow when writing, at least until they know how to break those rules effectively, but everyone uses a different yardstick to measure and some folks like their prose more descriptive.

Yes,this. Book is so much better. It has a great writing style too. Project Hail Mary is great!

Trust me it’ll make sense later in the book.

It can't be a "lesser" version when the comment was "Why read at all?" They're definitely getting more than the nothing that was suggested. And it's not good or bad to value any part of these made-up, nonexistent stories and fake people. You could never pick up any piece of fiction, and it wouldn't matter. Beyond the enjoyment that you get out of them, they are utterly worthless. So let people do what they want. This thread is gatekeeping bullshit, and this sub is pretentious as fuck.