It’s not necessarily beautiful as it is cool, but there was a line in Project Hail Mary that made me go, “Oh wow,” and pause for a minute to just bask in how awesome a line it was.

The main character is realizing his mortality on his doomed space mission and, in reference to the four satellites on board with him, he says, “John, Paul, George and Ringo get to go home but my long and winding road ends here.”

As a music and sci-fi nerd, that line hit hard haha. The PHM movie has to have music by The Beatles in it!

I still bring up this book whenever someone asks about good books I’ve read. I’d heard people talk about it for a while, wondering if it was worth the hype.

The Judge’s introduction and basically every scene with him had me on edge the entire time. And it never lets up, even at the end!

Definitely worth the hype. Worth it for the prose alone, but the fact that it’s based on facts elevates it even more. When I found out Glanton was real and that the Judge probably was too, it blew my mind.