“Project Hail Mary” is bringing audiences to movie theaters in numbers the industry hasn’t seen for a non-franchise film since “Oppenheimer.” The science fiction epic starring Ryan Gosling earned around $80.5 million in ticket sales in its first weekend playing in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday. Box office tracker EntTelligence estimates that translates into about 5 million ticket buyers.

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

He has always tended to spend multiple pages lingering on the bodies of any female character in his novels (... and I am intentionally not going to think about how old whatsherface was in Codex Alera) and they almost always have very "porn star" bodies. This is explained by Harry being a self-admitted chauvinist as though that is a good thing.

For years, the big "what the fuck" bits were Lara Raithe (who is literally a sex vampire so she kinda gets a pass) and... one of Harry's best friend's daughters (Molly) who literally stripped naked and tried to seduce Harry at least once. But his true love was his cop friend who was very clearly Butcher's wife.

Then Butcher got divorced. Then the cop friend got got. Then we continued to get stories about how Molly is possessed by a primal energy and almost fucks someone to death. And quite a bit of text that she still wants to bang Harry and how it might even be HIS responsibility because of the primal energy he is possessed by. Then Harry is randomly betrothed to the porn vampire but its cool because they are into each other.

And... people with connections to the publishing/convention world can very much tell you that it is barely even an open secret who Lara Raithe was "inspired" by. And it is NOT mutual and has caused a fair number of headaches for folk over the years. Which then raises the question... if Karrin was his wife and Lara is then who is Molly?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I gotta be honest, that just sounds like a lot of very boring drama.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

If you can get passed the weird shit, the books are pretty good, but yea a lot of the stuff in said books, are just pointless.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I was referring to the personal drama, not the books. I've listened to several during road trips and have been fully entertained; my wife is also a big fan overall, and we even have a plan for me to cosplay as Harry; the only inaccuracy is that I'm only 6'5".

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Ah, I didn't know about any drama from him, just that the books do have some...neckbeard moments in them? Where I just skip the shit...