
"This book is quite scary, so if you don't like scary books, I wouldn't recommend it. (.) Sure, this novel has plenty of logic-defying scenes, but they don't stall the escalating tension." - Rollie Welch, Cleveland Plain Dealer The narrative zips past training and detours safely around the confusing, alphabet-soup of NASA-speak. Like Stieg Larsson, another Scandinavian, Harstad knows how to tuck in a nasty shock. " 172 Hours on the Moon is a well-crafted physical object, peppered with vintage photographs of Apollo moon shots. Norwegian title: Darlah: 172 timer på månenĬ : some suspense, but way too hasty and unscientific. General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Out of 5 stars, I give it a 4, because the beginning was a little boring, and it was a little too creepy in some other places - but overall, it was great.Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. All of this might be able to happen, although if it had, the results would not be good for the people of Earth. It was kind more of a sci-fi book, but no one knows everything about what is on the moon. The 8 crew members are dying one by one, and the rest of the team uncovers a lot about the history of the moon - including why anyone hasn't been back up to the moon since 1976. But when they get there, they realize that something is wrong. So NASA holds a lottery, and the lucky three will get to go to the moon.
Then NASA realizes that sending kids up will attract lots of media. If the United States got more of tantalum, they would earn a lot of money. NASA decides that the USA needs more tantalum 73 - a material that is very strong and conducts electricity. Its main purpose was to mine materials rare on Earth - but it was never used! Only the most important government people knew about it until NASA's space lottery. This book mostly takes place on the moon ( in DARLAH 2 ), but some parts took place in New York, France, Norway, and Japan. Midori is somewhat of a scaredy-cat, and freaks out easily. Midori is a really funny character, although sometimes she has a hard time understanding sarcasm, and takes jokes seriously.
Her full name is Midori Yoshida, and her dream is to someday visit New York ( her dream comes true ). However, sometimes he messes up English figures of speech ( and it's hilarious ). He is a funny guy, and makes a lot of jokes and puns. Antoine is great at math, and likes math a lot. He has a stereotypical French accent too. Mia always has a bunch of sarcastic comments and jokes.Īntoine is French. She is in a band with some of her friends.
She loves to listen to music, sing, and play her guitar. _abc Powtoon Transcript 172 Hours On The Moon