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seriously considering DNFing this. so far it's a day-in-the-life vision of socialist life that is anti-inspiring. lots of whining about liberals and Democrats. some painfully unfunny jokey asides (if his book inspires revolutions like the Communist Manifesto, then "how good would that be for getting invited onto podcasts?"). it appears the next three chapters are all about the evils of capitalism. GET TO THE POINT.

As much as I thought Malcolm Harris' book was mediocre, it was miles ahead of this so far.

Good lord this dude's vision of a day in the life under a socialist utopia is annoying AF.

page 300+ and finally the kids start on their story reason for being there

Nearly halfway through and finally the story feels like it's gotten past the preliminaries.

Waking up, attached to strange medical equipment, he realises that he doesn’t know where he is, why he’s there, or who he even is.

The concept is fine, interesting even, but I do not enjoy Weir’s writing style. In fact, I’d forgotten just how much I dislike it in the decade since I read “The Martian”.

I find Weir tediously didactic, he over-explains everything, and so many plot points are so blatantly telegraphed, it makes a mockery of his supposedly intelligent characters. Speaking of which, I really don’t like Weir’s characters, particularly the protagonist.

Ryland Grace is a cardboard cut-out who cracks unfunny “jokes”, and tiresomely describes his every move. Grace’s character is just flat, despite him crying constantly (that’s how we know he is sad), or him being the coolest teacher ever.

Weir is not for me, I shall stop reading Weir.

So many surprises that really are not all that surprising when I think about them.

I apologize to those on other servers who are seeing this "finished" post twice. It looks like SFBA.club rolled back their database a few days.