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Space Junk: Houston, We Have a Hottie
by Sara L. Hudson
So, this was a book, I guess?
It was an epically boring book. To be honest, I skimmed about 30% of this. Anything to do with NASA and her work was just long and so so boring, filled with jargon and acronyms that I was too bored to learn. I get that Jackie was a genius but, my god, my eyes went cross trying to read through it so I just gave up. I felt a bit guilty about this because my biggest pet peeve is books that are unrealistic and badly researched, this one was too realistic and overly specific.
So with all this focus the author spent on the NASA mission and details on classic cars and 1950s architecture and design, not much room was left for interesting characters, plot, growth or development. But there was a heck of a lot of mentioning of how great and unique Jackie was at the expense of all of womankind. There was so much ‘not like the other girls’ subtext it made me feel like this author didn’t have much respect for women in general, or maybe this hero didn’t.
I think maybe the author was trying to create a nerderella scenario (Cinderella/ nerd) where the heroine was so perfectly wonderful and beautiful but didn’t even know it. She had men falling all over themselves when she was around and never even noticed, she was that sweet and wonderful, she didn’t even know she was beautiful. Omg can we be over this? Being oblivious isn’t a virtue.
Overlooking all of that tropey nonsense, there really wasn’t much of a story here to speak of. I got no chemistry from the couple, very little time was spent together, much of the book was just her avoiding him at first and then them broken up. So much of this story was her at NASA and her interacting with her new gal pals. It just bored me to tears. It seemed like a great concept, with a genius nasa engineer heroine and hot dish mechanic hero but the execution was terrible.
It was an epically boring book. To be honest, I skimmed about 30% of this. Anything to do with NASA and her work was just long and so so boring, filled with jargon and acronyms that I was too bored to learn. I get that Jackie was a genius but, my god, my eyes went cross trying to read through it so I just gave up. I felt a bit guilty about this because my biggest pet peeve is books that are unrealistic and badly researched, this one was too realistic and overly specific.
So with all this focus the author spent on the NASA mission and details on classic cars and 1950s architecture and design, not much room was left for interesting characters, plot, growth or development. But there was a heck of a lot of mentioning of how great and unique Jackie was at the expense of all of womankind. There was so much ‘not like the other girls’ subtext it made me feel like this author didn’t have much respect for women in general, or maybe this hero didn’t.
I think maybe the author was trying to create a nerderella scenario (Cinderella/ nerd) where the heroine was so perfectly wonderful and beautiful but didn’t even know it. She had men falling all over themselves when she was around and never even noticed, she was that sweet and wonderful, she didn’t even know she was beautiful. Omg can we be over this? Being oblivious isn’t a virtue.
Overlooking all of that tropey nonsense, there really wasn’t much of a story here to speak of. I got no chemistry from the couple, very little time was spent together, much of the book was just her avoiding him at first and then them broken up. So much of this story was her at NASA and her interacting with her new gal pals. It just bored me to tears. It seemed like a great concept, with a genius nasa engineer heroine and hot dish mechanic hero but the execution was terrible.