Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
Samantha Harvey's 'Orbital' is overwritten, uninspired and pointless. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024.
3 or 4/10
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Orbital: Six astronauts rotate in the International Space Station. They are there to do vital work, but slowly they begin to wonder: what is life without Earth? What is Earth without humanity? Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents, and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day. Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction. The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part – or protective – of it.
Thanks for watching, and remember: a book must have cringe. That is imperative.
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Samantha Harvey's 'Orbital' is overwritten, uninspired and pointless. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024.
3 or 4/10
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/thediscoking
Orbital: Six astronauts rotate in the International Space Station. They are there to do vital work, but slowly they begin to wonder: what is life without Earth? What is Earth without humanity? Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents, and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day. Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction. The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part – or protective – of it.
Thanks for watching, and remember: a book must have cringe. That is imperative.
#bookerprize #bookerprize2024 #booktube #booktuber #boxing #orbital
