Chemists, readers and cinephiles of rdrama, what do you think of this slop? :marseytrad: :marseychemist2:

!chemistry !bookworms !ifrickinglovescience they adapted it into a TV show with Brie Larson. Have any of you read this book? I know this show exist because my mom watched it and talked to me about it then I googled it, find out it was a book then I went /r/books and it looks like any fiction made in the year of our lord 2015+

https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/v5yjs6/lessons_in_chemistry_by_bonnie_garmus/

The plot seems to be: 1950s chemistry PhD student gets r*ped and stabs her male feminist. She gets expelled of her PhD program and becomes a girlboss in cooking with a cook show. The foid falls in love with another chemist and refuses his marriage proposals, the moid dies but she's pregnant. A few years later she was this hyper intelligent dog and a 5 year old kid who can read and quote Peepeeens and the main foid does neurodivergent quircky shit on her cooking show like referring to salt as sodium chloride or vinagre as acetic acid. She apparently also angrily tosses a food can into the trash because "it's filled with chemicals", lol sounds like TBBT level dialogue.

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Oh that book is fricking awful. I couldn't finish it. Total Mary Sue protagonist, and the dog...

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Well every single Redditor disagrees with you, so what do you have to say about that?

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There's a part where she joins the rowing team and is instantly the best rower because she read a physics textbook about how rowing works. If only those other rowers understood the principle of leverage, instead of wasting their time bulking up in the gym.

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There's a part where she joins the rowing team and is instantly the best rower because she read a physics textbook about how rowing works

Just like having a MS in chemistry makes you a professional chef!

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Never fear, @JimieWhales is an enemy of the gospel and I'm simply biding :marseybiden: my time to make a post exposing her for what she truly is. She chose to MOCK my Christian faith in a recent thread.

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She chose to MOCK my Christian faith in a recent thread.

Sauce? :marseynotes:

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I'm not that invested. When the time is right you'll know. You will all know. This queen of gossip @JimieWhales will face the light soon. For as we know from John, 3:

20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

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She chose to MOCK my Christian faith

:#marseyletsgo: YES!

Good job, @JimieWhales ! :marseythumbsup:

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not r-slurred housewife (single) being good at cooking is believable. she's not a professional chef she does a show for other housewives

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Being good at home cooking is one thing, becoming Julia Child because you know chemistry is another. And going by that example even though Julia Child's show was directed at housewives she still graduated from a culinary school in France and the point of those shows was to teach housewives to cook more refined meals.

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I believe doing a regular show means either already knowing your shit on every topic (like Julia Child) or having the time and resources to prepare a dish a dozen times. Or as in this case being gods gift to cookery. :marseyjerkofffrown: As an aside: chemistry as in synthesis does not transfer to cooking much. It does however to baking. Therefore this author has no idea how chemistry works in practice and neither do all these media people liking this book.

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prepare a dish dozens of times who even does that

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Like when you want the crust to be crisp and the center juicy. You will need certain times at certain temps. In the oven or in the pan? Plus when the acids? That's a dozen fish right there.

If you want a good example take Alton Brown. He does the stuff.

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I'm smarter than redditors. :marseybigbrain:

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And yet you're here. :marseysmughips:

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and the dog...

:#coomer:

Go on

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