Paola
What an amazing read!
Andy Weir beautifully brings together science and fiction in this outer space tale that has us striving for survival along with astronaut Mark Watney when he mistakenly ends up stranded, completely alone in the red planet, after a freak accident while aborting the Ares 3 Mars mission.
I'm the first person to be alone on an entire planet.
What I thought was most wonderful about The Martian is that the main character did not have "main character powers". Everything in this story happens for a reason; a reason which basis has been well established within the plot by the time it happens and not just to fit the plot and its expected outcome. There are certainly a lot of twists and turns along the way.
I also liked very much that the story alternates between multiple points of view, so we get to see what happens, not only in Watney's abandonment, but on Earth and with the Ares 3 crew; all the social drama, moral dilemmas and NASA's effort to bring the astronaut back. All this spiced up with Watney's incredible sense of humor - he's a master at laughing at his own misery.
Turns out the “L” in “LCD” stands for “Liquid”. I guess it either froze or boiled off. Maybe I'll post a costumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.”
I had a specific sticker type for this read to signal what I found very funny. My book is now plagued with them.
Another thing that I greatly appreciated were the friendly and casual science lessons; if something fills up this book is a load of scientific explanations behind Watney's contraptions going from thermodynamics to botany and basic chemistry. They're detailed enough to clearly explain the facts and how things happen, but not too technical to turn the book into a science text book.
Watney definitely takes advantage of his mechanical engineering/botany powers to whip up countless inventions that show his incredible resilience and determination to stay alive until rescue comes.
I don't want to come off as arrogant here, but I'm the best botanist on the planet.
This book instantly made it to my favorites' list. It's incredibly entertaining, unapologetically funny, surprisingly touching and one of the best I've read in my life.
What an amazing read!
Andy Weir beautifully brings together science and fiction in this outer space tale that has us striving for survival along with astronaut Mark Watney when he mistakenly ends up stranded, completely alone in the red planet, after a freak accident while aborting the Ares 3 Mars mission.
I'm the first person to be alone on an entire planet.
What I thought was most wonderful about The Martian is that the main character did not have "main character powers". Everything in this story happens for a reason; a reason which basis has been well established within the plot by the time it happens and not just to fit the plot and its expected outcome. There are certainly a lot of twists and turns along the way.
I also liked very much that the story alternates between multiple points of view, so we get to see what happens, not only in Watney's abandonment, but on Earth and with the Ares 3 crew; all the social drama, moral dilemmas and NASA's effort to bring the astronaut back. All this spiced up with Watney's incredible sense of humor - he's a master at laughing at his own misery.
Turns out the “L” in “LCD” stands for “Liquid”. I guess it either froze or boiled off. Maybe I'll post a costumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.”
I had a specific sticker type for this read to signal what I found very funny. My book is now plagued with them.
Another thing that I greatly appreciated were the friendly and casual science lessons; if something fills up this book is a load of scientific explanations behind Watney's contraptions going from thermodynamics to botany and basic chemistry. They're detailed enough to clearly explain the facts and how things happen, but not too technical to turn the book into a science text book.
Watney definitely takes advantage of his mechanical engineering/botany powers to whip up countless inventions that show his incredible resilience and determination to stay alive until rescue comes.
I don't want to come off as arrogant here, but I'm the best botanist on the planet.
This book instantly made it to my favorites' list. It's incredibly entertaining, unapologetically funny, surprisingly touching and one of the best I've read in my life.