Project Hail Mary

After a couple of dour Richard Bachman books in a row, it was nice to take a break and try something else. This time around, I grabbed Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

I wasn't prepared for this book. It turned out to be one of those books that I loved so much that I just wanted to be reading it all the time. Of course, I do almost all of my reading via audiobooks, so binge reading an audiobook is a different prospect. You can only listen to an audiobook for as long as your mind is unoccupied. If you do something too mentally taxing, you will stop paying attention to the book and find that you are lost and don't know what's going on, but because you don't have to sit on the couch looking at a book, you will find something to do. I think it's just generally more difficult to pull off.

I found that I was able to listen to my audiobook while formatting Sunny & Gray for publishing. That wasn't too much for my mind to concentrate on both. So, that was nice. I was able to get two things done at once.

The book was completely delightful, and not at all what I suspected it was going to be at the beginning. I won't talk too much about the plot to avoid spoiling it, but it's high-concept stuff (as my screenwriting teacher, John Lee, used to call it) and there are some very touching moments that will bring tears to your eyes even though the events are only playing out on the stage of your mind.

I loved The Martian by Andy Weir. Now, I've loved Project Hail Mary. I'm going to have to get Artemis, the one book he's done that I haven't read, and go after that one soon. This guy does good stuff.