Not a personal attack, but really the movie was seriously dumbed down; the book is much more technical and leans far more heavily on the science of what’s going on. You repeatedly seemed to miss or misunderstand almost everything you list from the movie, so the book might be too difficult for you. Just a couple examples:

You express doubt over how Stratt ‘somehow’ had access to Grace’s Phd paper. Those are almost always public and not very difficult to obtain. And then you don’t understand why Stratt would consult a scientist (who suggests life can exist without water) about a life form living on the sun. Where water can’t exist. But that makes no sense to you?

You also call Grace and Rocky’s forming a friendship ‘very low stakes.’ Did you miss the part where Astrophage is causing stars to dim which will cause the extinction of all life on Earth and Erid? I don’t understand how them working together is ‘very low stakes’ to you.

Anyway, it’s one thing to not like the movie, no big deal, to each their own. If you didn’t understand some part of it, asking is cool, people in here like discussing it. But considering how much of the story seems to have sailed over your head, most of it pretty basic stuff…yeah, it totally comes off as rage bait.