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  "id": "booksreddit:recommendation-receipt:project-hail-mary",
  "book": {
    "slug": "project-hail-mary",
    "title": "Project Hail Mary",
    "author": "Andy Weir",
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      "Andy Weir"
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    "first_published": 2021
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  "consensus": "3421 mentions, the highest total in this set, with r/printSF (1852) edging out r/suggestmeabook (1457) and r/Fantasy trailing far behind at 108. \" Go-in-blind is the house style here too; one reader (↑203) says they avoided details for years despite constant recommendations, then read it in one sitting once they finally gave in.",
  "read_if": "Read this if three different friends have already spoiled parts of it and you're tired of dodging them; per the sample, waiting doesn't ruin the experience (↑203). You'll fit right into the printSF crowd that ranks it next to Dark Matter and Red Rising rather than treating it as untouchable. First-contact and hard-science puzzle-solving are the draw here, not prose style, going by what actually gets quoted.",
  "skip_if": "printSF's comparison lists slot it alongside Dark Matter, Red Rising, and Exhalation rather than singling it out, treating it as one strong option among many rather than a standout (↑218).",
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    "excerpt": "Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Finished in 3 days and I’ve been in a reading coma ever since. So good!!",
    "score": 301,
    "sentiment": 0.8,
    "published_at": "2021-12-02T16:34:04+00:00",
    "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/r77u1v/the_best_book_you_read_in_2021/hmy5q3o/"
  },
  "dissent": {
    "editorial_caveat": "printSF's comparison lists slot it alongside Dark Matter, Red Rising, and Exhalation rather than singling it out, treating it as one strong option among many rather than a standout (↑218).",
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  },
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  "updated_at": "2026-07-06T00:00:00.000Z",
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    {
      "subreddit": "suggestmeabook",
      "excerpt": "Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Finished in 3 days and I’ve been in a reading coma ever since. So good!!",
      "score": 301,
      "sentiment": 0.8,
      "published_at": "2021-12-02T16:34:04+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/r77u1v/the_best_book_you_read_in_2021/hmy5q3o/"
    },
    {
      "subreddit": "printSF",
      "excerpt": "Let me save you a click... Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch All Systems Red, by Martha Wells Recursion, by Blake Crouch The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chamber Wool, by Hugh Howey Red Rising, by Pierce Brown Exhalation, by Ted Chiang We Are Legion, by Denn…",
      "score": 218,
      "sentiment": 0.5,
      "published_at": "2022-12-20T19:16:49+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/zqqah1/10_best_scifi_novels_of_the_last_10_years/j10cqe4/"
    },
    {
      "subreddit": "suggestmeabook",
      "excerpt": "Not OP but Project Hail Mary if you haven’t yet! It basically combines all 3 lol.",
      "score": 209,
      "sentiment": 0.5,
      "published_at": "2023-12-30T16:43:00+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/18uhups/tell_me_3_things_about_you_and_ill_recommend_a/kfkmew6/"
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    {
      "subreddit": "suggestmeabook",
      "excerpt": "Project Hail Mary. I went in with no knowledge of the story. I’d seen it recommended on here so many, many times that I’d slotted it in to my “to read” pile. It never made the top because I knew nothing about it. Then one day, after reading on here another Redditor enthusing about it and it coincidi…",
      "score": 203,
      "sentiment": 0.5,
      "published_at": "2023-12-25T16:56:00+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/18qm02a/what_page_turners_did_you_read_in_2023_that_you/kevnmgl/"
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    "Mention counts describe the tracked Reddit sample, not every Reddit comment or every reader.",
    "Average sentiment summarizes sampled discussion and is not a star rating.",
    "Editorial consensus, reader fit, and caveats are derived from the existing sourced book synthesis."
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