“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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      Yeah. Butcher’s other books don’t have the same misogyny issues so it’s usually agreed upon that it’s a Harry Dresden issue and not a Butcher issue…

      It’s also very hard to verify this Lara Raith stuff online (or at least I haven’t managed to find anything about it)… almost as if it’s not such an open secret.

      That plus the fact that Murphy and the ex-wife look nothing alike and Murphy dies 4 books and 7 years after the divorce, in a series of books in which everyone knows the main character has never been allowed to be happy and keeps reminding himself that a villain once cursed him to die alone…

      Then there’s Molly who got shut down by Harry pretty hard and there’s been no more tension since that one scene, so… Yeah, pretty meh stuff.

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      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.

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        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".

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          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…