{"id":3844,"date":"2019-12-09T06:58:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T06:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=3844"},"modified":"2019-12-09T06:58:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T06:58:02","slug":"the-last-astronaut-by-david-wellington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/the-last-astronaut-by-david-wellington\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Last Astronaut<\/em> by David Wellington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/40881567-the-last-astronaut\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1532090400l\/40881567._SX98_.jpg\" alt=\"The Last Astronaut\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/40881567-the-last-astronaut\">The Last Astronaut<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/24827.David_Wellington\">David Wellington<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/3077967912\">2 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can barely squeeze out two stars on this one. This sci-fi first contact novel features a disgraced woman astronaut who is redrafted by NASA to lead an expedition to a distant object or ship from deep space that is on a course to collide with (or perhaps make close contact with) Earth. The plot resembles a made for Syfy channel late night time filler. None of the characters are remotely plausible. Rao (the doctor\/astrobiologist) is a scaredy-cat. The military representative is a nasty, vile-tempered, power-mad alien hater (sound like someone?) Others are no better. In fact the members of the competing team from a private space company are downright evil. They all bicker and disobey orders and generally do just about everything that is stupid and unlikely. The alien(s?) in the object are not &#8230; well, no spoilers.<\/p>\n<p>I listened to the audiobook. The very poor reader made the immaturity of the writing even worse. She overacted horribly. Rao&#8217;s voice sounded like a timid 10-year-old girl cartoon character. The military guy sneered and scoffed every line, and so on. At times she reminded me of a librarian reading fairy tales to dim four-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/12975428-russell-atkinson\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Astronaut by David Wellington My rating: 2 of 5 stars I can barely squeeze out two stars on this one. 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