/lit/ - Literature

>>21845786
>I would suggest you stop looking into it here because the books are way better the less you know about them going into it.
in fact, some hinge upon the fact

>>21833251
I'd like to thank the anon who told me to stick with Project Hail Mary. It becomes a lot more interesting about a third way through or so.

>>21825662
Is Project Hail Mary actually worth sticking through with? I find the protagonist inappropriately quippy as author can't settle on what mood he's going for.

Any books like this? I really enjoyed it and would like to read something similar.

Basically something is killing Earth so an astronaut or a group of astronauts are sent to deep space to find an answer to save earth.

Ayyylamos are also found and a they help because the same thing is happening to their planet.

It also has a lot of hard science.

This reads like it was written by a child.
Its bizarre because I really liked The Martian

Why does this type of book make me so angry? I listened to the first hour or so of Project Hail Mary in somebody's car today. It's about a faggot high school teacher who wakes up on a spaceship and can't remember anything except for all the EPIC science facts that help him solve the mystery. The dude remembers through flashbacks that he's a former molecular biologist but now a high school science teacher. Then some agency comes to recruit him to save the world.

I like fiction and think it can be good (just finished The Terror and really liked it). But I can't stand these books that hinge on the fact that the protag is just awesome in their field, but the author obviously only did surface-level research into said field, and the result is like some teenager's fantasy. My question is, what do you call these types of books and how can I avoid them? This fucking book is rated very highly apparently.