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What's real anymore? That what the book wants you to question

Here goes my rapid fire reasoning for my 5 stars:
1. I couldn't put it down.*
2. The characters felt so real I wouldn't doubt this as much, but I doubt anyway. *
3. The twists and turns of the structure had me engaged, very stream of consciousness. *
4.The writing was simple, yet catchy and authentic. *
5. Critique on religion? Yes, give me all of it.
Fantastic novel. For brief moments it made me question whether this minister was a real person.

More Like This PleaseWhat a work of art. It's a non-fiction about nature that feels like a fictional adventure, but it's all true. I recommend this to anyone interested in learning about the gifts from Mother Earth, and North American indigenous cultures. This should become a required reading at some point in general North American education. There's so much knowledge shared in these pages. Please don't let this one out of your reading lists.

I listened to the audiobook version, because I'm blind. If there's an audiobook, I'll listen to that over my robotic screen reader. It was narrated by the author, and her voice is calm and soothing, which makes this an even more enjoyable experience.

So good!

This guy was ahead of his time. Finally I listened to this book. There's a guy on YouTube who does full audiobooks with great voice acting and atmospheric sounds. It was a great experience and the story in itself left me wanting to revisit it from time to time. I think this and 1984 combined are a great way to foresee the real life dystopia that humanity is heading towards.
I'm just glad I read this.

I listened to the audiobook version and enjoyed those extra details that can only be found in the audio format.

I love how Weir combines the detailed scientific plot points with humor, and for this particular novel, I love how he took this cliche trope that retreats anything and anyone disabled like we're only worth to die somewhere in the plot, and he just subverted it! I wont detail this further. I just love the way he wrote this story. Absolutely refreshing.

If you read The Martian and you liked it, then you will probably like this too.

Great concept, generic execution. It simply wasn't for me. It's a good book, I can recommend it to science fiction lovers.