Artemis - Andy Weir (of The Martian fame)

[Tyler]

His book comes out tomorrow. I'll be reading it and so will Wilkins. We each read The Martian in a single day, but I doubt I do that with this book. Wilkins will probably have it done by Friday though.

Jocelyn just started a new book on the Kindle yesterday so I don't think I will be able to read it on the Paperwhite and I'm not too crazy about reading it on the tablet, but it's probably doable if I do black screen/white text.

Anyone else going to read?

Wilkins, how should we post about it? Start each post with the chapter number and use spoiler tags on everything?

[cwilkins88]

Source of the post His book comes out tomorrow. I'll be reading it and so will Wilkins. We each read The Martian in a single day, but I doubt I do that with this book. Wilkins will probably have it done by Friday though.

Jocelyn just started a new book on the Kindle yesterday so I don't think I will be able to read it on the Paperwhite and I'm not too crazy about reading it on the tablet, but it's probably doable if I do black screen/white text.

Anyone else going to read?

Wilkins, how should we post about it? Start each post with the chapter number and use spoiler tags on everything?

Yeah, spoiler tags will be good. I remember last time we tried doing the dashes and that just messed all sorts of crap up.

[Tyler]

Source of the post I remember last time we tried doing the dashes and that just messed all sorts of crap up.

Was that for the Silo Saga? That was before I added the spoiler functionality though.

[cwilkins88]

Yup

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[Tyler]

Did you buy it wilkins? Starting today?

[Tyler]

I bought and started. $14 for the Kindle version.

I didn't even finish chapter 1, but I have some thoughts already. Mainly

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When did you realize Jazz was a girl? She says something about a pony tail and I pictured a guy with long hair. It wasn't until Dale said delivery girl did it click.

[Tyler]

Chapter 1

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I'm enjoying the world building so far. I wish I had a printout of the maps taped to my kindle because I want to flip to them every time a bubble is discussed or the layout of Artemis.

I'm confused if Jazz was born in Artemis or if she moved there when she was a child. I'm sure that will be cleared up or I missed it.

[Tyler]

Chapter 2

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The only thing I knew about this book was 'a heist takes place on the moon'. I am guessing sabotaging the miners will be the main story of the book.

World building continues to be great. I can't wait to see the fire scene explained in a movie because I'm pretty sure I wasn't picturing it right in my head.

It's weird that Andy Weir is writing somewhat sexual stuff from the view point of a girl. I know writers do it all the time, but it just seems odd.

[bmyoungs]

I think I'll get this for audible. I've been listening to a lot of books recently

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[cwilkins88]

I'll respond to this when I get home. Can't do spoiler tag from mobile.

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[Tyler]

I'll respond to this when I get home. Can't do spoiler tag from mobile.

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Well you can, but you have to do it manually.

[cwilkins88]

Chapters 1 -3

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I really love the world building in this. I thought the thing that was most interesting out of any of it was the aluminum smelting and the fact that a byproduct of the smelting was that they powered the whole colony with the leftover oxygen. Using the Oxygen as an incentive for free power is ingenious, but it obviously opens up the world to exploitation, aka literally the whole plot of this book.

[cwilkins88]

Chapters 4-6

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The best part about these chapters was the contemplation of taking the job over from richie rich pants. She had the moral obligation to not do it. 1,000,000 slugs. DEAL. The fact that she became self aware that she gave a shoddy inspection of her suit was nice.

The start of the heist was super fun, but the whole premise seems sketchy to me. You have the four harvesters, with the whole thing of, if you take them out, they cant make oxygen. Okay, sounds good...but like...how do you know for sure the company doesn't have extra oxygen stored? Why wouldn't they? If they can sell it and release some back into the atmosphere, obviously they would have a reserve right?

The chase back to the compound was pretty interesting, but also kind of had flaws. I get that they went back to base to cover the airlocks, but they didn't know she didn't have reserve air. What if she had an entrance into the place they didnt cover, and she had enough reserve air to outlast them for awhile? Also, she could've easily went back and sabotaged the last Harvester. Is a multi-billion dollar deal worth getting one person deported?
Probably.

[cwilkins88]

Chapter 7

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This is dumb. I won't tell, because I believe in the power of friendship!!!

The redeeming part of this chapter is how absolutely nailed to a wall Rudy has Jazz, that whole encounter was fun.

Also, the correspondence between Kelvin and Jazz finally amounts to something. It's interesting (and highly coincidental) that the person closest to Jazz betrayed her trust and caught her. I'm interested if they'll bring Tyler into the mix soon.

[bmyoungs]

Chapter 1

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I'm enjoying the world building so far. I wish I had a printout of the maps taped to my kindle because I want to flip to them every time a bubble is discussed or the layout of Artemis.

I'm confused if Jazz was born in Artemis or if she moved there when she was a child. I'm sure that will be cleared up or I missed it.

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maybe I misheard, but I thought since she was 6? I should look at a map of it, didn't even think of it since I'm listening to the book

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[cwilkins88]

Above is correct

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[Tyler]

Brad do you have access to the map with the audiobook? Should I post it here?

[bmyoungs]

Brad do you have access to the map with the audiobook? Should I post it here?

You can post it. There's nothing in app for the map

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[Tyler]

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[Tyler]

I can't read your posts wilkins because I'm only doing a chapter at a time!
Chapter 4

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Jazz sees the vehicles she has to break and we meet her dad. She has a plan on how to do it, but we don't fully know it.

Jazz= Mark Watney. Same humor and same brain. They are both too smart to be relatable.

I wonder how these letters will pay off, they seem to be 5+ years old. She mentions dating someone and the name was familiar, but I've honestly forgot a lot of names already since I didn't read for a week.

Oh, and creepy condom guy.