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Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
wirie DNF'd a book

Starside
Alex Aster
Post from the Starside forum
I don't want to be a hater but this is one the worst books I've read in so long. I don't dnf books, it's entirely not my style, but I have no clue what I would gain from finishing this book. What would be the point of reading it??
She makes the same mistakes over and over, her swearing is peeving me off, basic logic that could be fixed with a simple google search is wrong and rampant, and anything cool about the world (like the bone monster in the mist) is overshadowed by Raker and his oh so big hands and GET ME OUT OF HERE!!
really hope everyone else enjoys this book more than I did. And sometimes we just pick up books that weren't written for us. In this case I struggle to understand who exactly this book was written for, but alas I shall free myself from it's shackles and see the sun once more
Post from the Starside forum
This antidote stuff is peeving me off. It's not that deep, but pouring the blood would do nothing but infect the wound and make it worse. I'm Aussie (and have ocd so freak over this stuff) and pouring, for example, snake blood on a bite would do nothing but make it worse. Also, just because something has venom does not guarantee immunity. Snakes tend to have a high resistance, however, to their own venom, but can still die if the sacks or glands are punched or damaged and leaks. Sometimes counter-venom can be found via snakes venom or milk, but usually it's a very long and tedious process of injecting the blood plasma of other animals with small doses of the snakes venom, so it's crazy science stuff, pretty much. Blood has nothing to do with it in terms of cures. The snake (or saber-wolf in this instance) has glands and sacks that store the venom, which is separate to their blood and such in order to protect the animal from their own venom.
Basically - DO NOT POUR BLOOD ON YOUR VENOMOUS WOUNDS!! I doubt anyone would after reading this, and I know it's a literal fantasy wolf, but as I said I have contamination ocd and it freaked me out, so hopefully posting this will make me feel better
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Starside
Alex Aster
wirie wrote a review...
4.5 = adored this book, but I'm not a fan of the formatting. That's literally it. It's very hard to find a place to put it down, as there's very large chapters, and I'm not a huge fan of present tense, though it was rather easy to get used to.
I read this mostly because a lot of people recommend reading books about grief when grieving yourself (as I am), but honestly it's incredibly heavy, which I feel is a given, though I underestimated how so. I haven't cried this hard for a book in a long, long time. I didn't even realise I was crying until it stained the page, however, due to the writing, which is impeccable.
Written very lyrical, I feel as if I was in the countryside, with the descriptions of the wet ground, singular bugs or butterflies, the scents. I remember the scent of the trees behind their house and the honey in Anges' childhood home, the dampness of the winter, even the change after Hamnet's death due to the lack of these descriptions make the feel of the book some of the best I've ever read.
Overall just really really beautiful, and short enough that honestly I cannot think of a reason not to read it.
wirie finished a book

Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell