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One of the most beautifully presented books on mythology around.
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Monday, 27 July 2015
One more discussion post for the month of July!
Ok, fellow book nerds! One more post to discuss The Martian. (You can see Mark up there is getting a little worn out, too.)
The consensus seems to be that the novel was pretty technologically accurate, with minor limits, and that that generally was the selling point - the 'I'm going to have to science my way out of this' aspect was one that people liked a lot. The NASA scenes seemed to have been necessary, but kinda distracting, and people seemed to find the decision (taken by the rest of the crew) to rescue Mark kinda-anticlimactic. Agree? Disagree? Discuss! But, all in all, I think people liked it, and had a good time. Hopefully people enjoyed Book Club thus far! Be thinking also of a book you might like to August -later this week I thought we can try and hold a vote to see what people are into. (I don't think anyone else will want to try William T. Vollman's 1300+ page novel about the Nez Perce War, but, I can hope. =P)
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lilmookieesquire said @ 8:15pm GMT on 28th July
And I think insult have preferred it if the main character in ready player one wasn't such a huge fanboy of 80s culture. Like if he was thoroughly modern and hated the 80s but wanted to solve things to help make the real world better. That would have made him a rebel/counter-culture-cool and would have provided a nice contrast- but would have require a lot more dystopian world creation.
lilmookieesquire said @ 8:17pm GMT on 28th July
And I think I would have preferred it if the main character in ready player one wasn't such a huge fanboy of 80s culture (I find it hard to believe 80s culture would ever have that kind of universal sway it didn't even have in the 80s) Like if he was thoroughly modern and hated the 80s but wanted to solve things to help make the real world better. That would have made him a rebel/counter-culture-cool and would have provided a nice contrast- but would have require a lot more dystopian world creation.
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lilmookieesquire said @ 8:15pm GMT on 28th July
And I think I would have preferred it if the main character in ready player one wasn't such a huge fanboy of 80s culture (I find it hard to believe 80s culture would ever have that kind of universal sway it didn't even have in the 80s) Like if he was thoroughly modern and hated the 80s but wanted to solve things to help make the real world better. That would have made him a rebel/counter-culture-cool and would have provided a nice contrast- but would have require a lot more dystopian world creation.
