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Project Hail Mary

Originally Published: 4, May 2021
Author: Andy Weir
Genres: Science Fiction, Adventure, Space Opera, Humor

This is how a science fiction book is written, with science in it. It is Mr. Andy Weir’s third novel, after 2011's The Martian, and 2017's Artemis.

It is going to remind you of The Martian but think of The Martian as a kindergartener and this book as a senior about to graduate. Sometimes my brother tells me not to praise a book so much to the point of making people think that I am getting paid to promote a book, this book is one of those books where I want to tell the reader to just buy the book and start reading. It is AMAZING.

While reading this, I don’t know why, I wanted to reread the classic “2001: A Space Odyssey” by one of the science fiction giants, Arthur C. Clarke. (My next review is going to be of this great book)

The characters are all loveable but in some cases, can feel two-dimensional but it doesn’t get in the way of the story and you are surely going to finish the book in four to five hours max. Once you start you’ll finish or won’t be able to concentrate on anything else until you are done with this book.

Only a few letdowns. If you think the environment is safe and global warming is fake, and if you think science, engineering, and electric issues in a spaceship can’t happen, then do not read this or be warned that it is kind of based on real science that some people think is not real. The book can be a little bit longer for some readers who don’t like to read the details of how stuff works and how something happened.

I am giving the rating based on the people who are connected with the paragraph above this one; otherwise, it is a hundred percent recommended book.


Synopsis:
“NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development as a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling.

“An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today

“If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.

Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.

And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.

Or does he?

An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.”


Rating: 95/100
Recommended: 100/100 Yes.

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11/22/63

Originally Published: 8, November 2011
Author: Stephen King
Genres: Science Fiction, Time Travel, Mystery, Alternate History, American Literature, Thriller, suspense, horror, romance

11/22/63, The date of the Assassination of the thirty-fifth American president John F. Kennedy.

This book is one of the best books I have ever read and can easily be in the top hundred books of all time on my books list. You get almost all the genres in this story and King has delivered a great masterpiece once again. I suggest you watch the miniseries first and then read the book for a full feel and understanding of what it is all about. But it is true; you can’t beat a book when it comes to explaining something.

This book’s ending is so painful and it punches you hard and squeezes your heart if you love someone but that is what stories are meant to do, make you realize and understand the reality and fix the issues according to what you feel. If a book makes you think about a loved one, then go say “I love you” at that very moment, because you never know if it is the last time you are seeing or talking to someone.

This is a huge book but don’t be afraid, it is a fast read and you are going to want more once it is done, and actually, you can imagine a few more chapters of your own if you want. But it was all left for you to decide by the King.

With this book, the writer is going to explain the term “page-turner” and “can't put down” once you start reading this book.

This is not what the writer usually writes, I mean the genre but he has command over whatever he writes and this book is as great as most of his work. This is my second review of Mr. Stephen King but it feels like the first because of the different styles and genres of the two books I reviewed. But one thing is for sure, he is the King.


Synopsis:

“One of the Ten Best Books of The New York Times
Book Review Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Now a miniseries from Hulu starring James Franco

ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTS RANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED. WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE IT BACK?

In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King—who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer—takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.

It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him away—a gruesome, harrowing story about the night more than fifty years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his life—like Harry’s, like America’s in 1963—turning on a dime. Not much later his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination.

So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson, in a different world of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere. From the dank little city of Derry, Maine (where there’s Dunning business to conduct), to the warmhearted small town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love, every turn is leading eventually, of course, to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where the past becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful, and where history might not be history anymore. Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying.”

As with all of Mr. King’s books, I can't go below perfect score and recommendation.


Rating: 100/100
Recommended: 100/100 Yes.

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Survive the Night

Originally Published: 29, June 2021
Author: Riley Sager
Genres: Supernatural, Horror, Serial Killer, Thriller, Psychological Thrillers, Suspense, Crime

The book is a fun read and you can’t stop reading it, but I think it started a bit slow, then changed into a crazy fast-paced page-turner. 

If you are a fan of the writer then maybe you’ll get disappointed because this book is not on the level of his previous books but don’t worry, it won’t make you hate or stop reading his upcoming books.

I felt like watching a movie that is made to give homage and respect to the movies from the eighties and nineties. The twists and turns are good and some changes that were never taken by the main female were absurd and crazy.

It was a great and useless story at the same time and the only reason and aspect that can be blamed for that is the main character because you are surely going to like others very much and going to feel for them but if you are like me, then I think you are not going to like her in real life either and that is the reason many people are going to hate the story, not because the writer is bad or the story is bad, it is just this character.

And if you think with an open mind then you are going to realize the reason the writer wrote her this way is to make the reader crazy while reading. Because you can finish this book in one sitting, even with a twister story, you can understand what is happening in the first two hours of reading time, and if she is not doing what she is doing in the story, then this book becomes worthless and no one was going to like it.

My final thoughts on this book: sometimes it is okay to read strange and silly stories, it helps your brain relax and forget the reality like being on a bumpy ride.


From The Back Cover:
“THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

One of New York Times Book Review's "summer reads guaranteed to make your heart thump and your skin crawl"; An Amazon Best of the Month Pick; Named a must-read summer book by The Washington Post, USA Today, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Forbes, Entertainment Weekly, CNN, New York Post, Good Housekeeping, E!, PopSugar, CrimeReads, Thrillist, and BookRiot.

It’s November 1991. Nirvana's in the tape deck, George H. W. Bush is in the White House, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer.

Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it’s guilt and grief over the shocking murder of her best friend, who became the third victim of the man known as the Campus Killer. For Josh, it’s to help care for his sick father—or so he says.

The longer she sits in the passenger seat, the more Charlie notices there’s something suspicious about Josh, from the holes in his story about his father to how he doesn’t want her to see inside the trunk. As they travel an empty, twisty highway in the dead of night, an increasingly anxious Charlie begins to think she’s sharing a car with the Campus Killer. Is Josh truly dangerous? Or is Charlie’s jittery mistrust merely a figment of her movie-fueled imagination?

One thing is certain—Charlie has nowhere to run and no way to call for help. Trapped in a terrifying game of cat and mouse played out on pitch-black roads and in neon-lit parking lots, Charlie knows the only way to win is to survive the night.”



Rating: 80/100
Recommended: 90/100 Yes.


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