Amaze amaze amaze!

The audible version is also recommended. Mad props to all the folks who made the audio book.

It's a great book for sure. Two things I really liked are

And, of course, Weir does a really good job with hard SF, keeping things anchored and believable.

Obligatory: fist my bump!

Jazz Hands

I had some fun reading this one but Andy Weir’s main characters always make me cringe. Also his writing about sex and how he writes/develops his women characters.

I loved it too. It got me out of a really long reading funk.

Sure, it's kind of hand-wavey in parts, and the science doesn't always make sense, but it's just so damn fun. I thought the character of Rocky never fell into tropes, and it was great how much personality and humor we get out of him.

Weir is definitely hit or miss from novel to novel, but when he hits he knocks it out of the park.

Definitely my favorite book I’ve read this year so far. It’s so so soooo good

Yes Yes Yes! I loved Hail Mary! I also enjoyed The Martian, both the book and the movie. I liked Artemis, but not as much as the other two. Weir does a good job telling a story from the first-person point of view. The sarcastic tone of the main character in each story may not work for everyone, but I enjoyed it.

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I did not like The Martian at all. I’ve seen so many people say they love Project Hail Mary and that it got them out of their reading slumps and you have to read it. Do you think there’s a chance I’d like this one even though I did not like The Martian? I want to give it a chance because so many people whose opinions I trust seem to really like it, but idk, maybe Weir just isn’t for me.

I read this about a year ago and I loved it. I had watched The Martian before but had never read the book. It encouraged me to read the book. I loved it as well.

Thoughts about Grace's sacrifical acts:

Never thought I'd get emotionally invested and attached to a creature as alien as Rocky. I thoroughly enjoyed in the book and it's my favorite out of the three Weir books I've read.

I teared up big time at the end when Grace realizes what's happened to the astrophage and has to make that discission. Easily an all time favorite.

One of the best sci fi books I ever read. Loved it. Took me 2 days to finish it.

I loved it! One of the best books I’ve read ever. This definitely got me out of my reading slump

Loved Hail Mary...I read The Martian after seeing the movie. I've read somewhere Hail Mary movie is in the works...kind of was thinking Hail Mary would work as a mini series.

"Amaze!" has become part of my daily lexicon after reading this book. I listened to the Audible version, which shares a narrator with another SciFi series I love: the Bobiverse series!

I loved it. Ended up reading it in a single sitting. Very great read.

I enjoyed it, I read the Martian before it got big and turned into a movie. I thought it might be a one hit wonder when Hail Mary came out and was prepared for disappointed but I ended up enjoying it quite a bit.

It is a good read. The ending was little meh, but I liked everything else about it.

Such a fantastic book! it unexpectedly made me cry in the middle... Will absolutely re-read at some point.

Yeah, very good book, I loved it. I'm usually not into optimistic sci-fi, but Weir's books are comfortably heartwarming even for jaded ol' me and pretty smart too. Not to mention that his language is very lively so you don't get bored for a second, it's fast-paced and to the point. And I have a special affinity for interspecies friendships ever since I read The Great Guignol of the Surrealists by Robert Sheckley where the main character was human and his closest friend and colleague was a essentially a big crab, there is something affirming in this very idea.