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172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad
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172 Hours on the Moon (original 2008; edition 2012)

by Johan Harstad (Author), Tara F Chace (Translator)

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In 2019, teens Mia, Antoine, and Midori are selected by lottery to join experienced astronauts on a NASA mission to the once top-secret moon base, DARLAH 2, while in a Florida nursing home, a former astronaut struggles to warn someone of the terrible danger there.
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Title:172 Hours on the Moon
Authors:Johan Harstad (Author)
Other authors:Tara F Chace (Translator)
Info:Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (2012), Edition: 1, 351 pages
Collections:NHS Library, 2017
Rating:***1/2
Tags:moon, space travel, doppelganger, YA, SF

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172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad (2008)

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Ugh. The only reason I finished this was to see if the ending would make some kind of sense. It really didn't. So many plot holes, so much bad science, so much narrative discontinuity, too many characters whose reaction to their situation made no sense. Honestly, three teens out of millions of entrants are to be chosen to go to the moon, and not one of them really wants to go? The whole thing was just one disappointing page after another. ( )
  Treebeard_404 | Jan 23, 2024 |
Star and a half for the intermittent paragraphs of dread that occur. Why send teens to the moon? I could not get past this. America wouldn't do this. They don't even send civilians anymore, I think, and I think they might even not send -people-, but satellites. I had to suspend disbelief to read the book, and it was so hard. Pages of the book are dedicated to Mia's love of music. That does not help me get into a book about moon travel. Mia doesn't want to go to the moon, and her parents basically force her to. Suddenly she's okay with it due to being in proximity to a hot guy. It could have been written much smoother than it was. Mia lives in Norway and remarks that teachers must be teaching from lesson plans a hundred years old. In the USA, the -methods- of teaching are based off something that old, but the plans themselves are more modern. Midori is annoying and majorly conceited.

The photorealistic illustrations were interesting. The training requirements for the teens were provided in a huge infodump about ten percent into the ebook. It needed to be spread over the first half of the book, and: show don't tell! Antoine engages in stalking and voyeuristic behavior towards his ex. The paragraphs of slow dread sprinkled throughout the book would be great if they weren't so boring. In between all the world-building infodumps, Midori tells a ghost story about a woman with a mutilated face who asks "Am I beautiful now?" after she takes off her mask. That caught my attention, here in this pandemic. The dread shows up again close to page 200, when the power fails. I was intrigued. The book went back to boring soon after. A hundred pages from the end, the book becomes delightfully scary. A conspiracy theory was made out of Apollo 13 and the phrase, "Houston, we have a problem." I was annoyed. ( )
  iszevthere | Jul 11, 2022 |
Im a little confused by some of the goings on in this book, but it was very effective as a horror story. Creepy AF. I listened to it while staying somewhere with a full length mirror in the hall opposite the bedroom door and would freak myself out whenever I walked out into the hall and saw myself standing there in the dark. ( )
  mutantpudding | Dec 26, 2021 |
This has got to be one of the scariest and most surprising book I've read to date.
Harstad's book made me question everything related to space.
I won't give away any spoilers but one thing I am sure: I'll never think of the Moon the same way...

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  _Marcia_94_ | Sep 21, 2021 |
Meh. It's a decent premise and fairly well executed, but it's a bit slow. And as an adult sci-fi reader the twists were a little too telegraphed. I still think it would be a good fit for some of our teens: it's got creepy urban legends, feisty characters, and a resolution that will probably work for lots of them. For me, the ending had the same holes that I disliked at the end of [b:Allegiant|18710190|Allegiant (Divergent, #3)|Veronica Roth|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1395582745s/18710190.jpg|15524549] where it wasn't actually explained how Mia got replaced in the capsule. UGH. ( )
  bookbrig | Aug 5, 2020 |
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Het verhaal begint in februari 2000. NASA-medewerkers hebben een gesprek over de vorige maanlanding. Op een pas ontdekte landkaart heeft een van hen gezien dat in 1974 op de maan een onderzoeksstation is gebouwd. Er was daar iets ontdekt wat maar beter direct vergeten kon worden. In 2012 organiseert NASA een wereldwijde loterij onder jongeren tussen 14 en 18 jaar. Drie van hen mogen mee naar de maan. De publiciteit levert geld op. Mia uit Oslo, Midori uit Tokyo en Antoine uit Parijs winnen de ruimtereis (172 uur) naar maanstation Darlah2. De drie pubers met heel verschillende karakters komen voor hete vuren te staan, zeker als blijkt dat er ook nog een Darlah1 bestaat. De enige mens op aarde die weet dat de reis fataal kan aflopen, is dementerend en woont in een bejaardentehuis. Hij was vroeger conciërge bij NASA. Hij wil de wereld waarschuwen, maar zijn woorden worden niet begrepen. Het boek is bijzonder goed geschreven en vertaald. De filmrechten zijn verkocht aan Hollywood. Heerlijk spannend boek voor jong en oud. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
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In 2019, teens Mia, Antoine, and Midori are selected by lottery to join experienced astronauts on a NASA mission to the once top-secret moon base, DARLAH 2, while in a Florida nursing home, a former astronaut struggles to warn someone of the terrible danger there.

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It's been decades since anyone set foot on the moon. Now three ordinary teenagers, the winners of NASA's unprecedented, worldwide lottery, are about to become the first young people in space — and change their lives forever.

Mia, from Norway, hopes this will be her punk band's ticket to fame and fortune.

Midori believes it's her way out of her restrained life in Japan.

Antoine, from France, just wants to get as far away from his ex-girlfriend as possible.

It's the opportunity of a lifetime, but little do the teenagers know that something sinister is waiting for them on the desolate surface of the moon. And in the black vacuum of space... no one is coming to save them.

In this chilling adventure set in the most brutal landscape known to man, highly acclaimed Norwegian novelist Johan Harstad creates a vivid and frightening world of possibilities we can only hope never come true.

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