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This was just a FUN read and is best enjoyed without too much scrutiny. I enjoyed Mark's voice a lot, it was always funny and clever and sarcastic. I feel like it is hard to get a sense of the amount of time that Mark actually spent on Mars. In my head, I kept thinking it was like a year, but it was like 2+ and it doesn't really seem like that is the truth. However, there is plenty to keep the plot moving and to keep the intensity high. I admit to skimming some of the science sections though.
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Best book I've read in years. Smart and suspenseful. Can't wait to watch the movie!
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I read this in two days. Sometimes, the voice got a little strange for me (he says things like "ugh" and "bleh"), so I felt like I was reading the diary of a late-teenager/early-twenty-something rather than a NASA engineer/botanist. However, that strangeness didn't make a big difference with a story so compelling and inventive. There's a pretty large amount of suspension-of-disbelief (see: "ragtop" reference near end as an extreme case), but it didn't bother me much. The balance of creative-prob
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this started out strong, then got very repetitive. i actually looked forward to the non-martian sections, just for some variety. it may make a strong film - though i'll be interested in how they tackle the math.
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3.5 stars.
This book made me nervous. Seriously, the dude couldn't get a break. He gets left, he gets his habitat blown up, his potatoes die, his rover tips over. Come ON!!
It was a great story! Funny writing, exciting, interesting plot. There were lots of grammar and editing errors, but not so many that it detracted from the story.
This could have been written by Robert A Heinlein if he was still around and got over his chauvinism. Just a good, fun story all around. ...more
This book made me nervous. Seriously, the dude couldn't get a break. He gets left, he gets his habitat blown up, his potatoes die, his rover tips over. Come ON!!
It was a great story! Funny writing, exciting, interesting plot. There were lots of grammar and editing errors, but not so many that it detracted from the story.
This could have been written by Robert A Heinlein if he was still around and got over his chauvinism. Just a good, fun story all around. ...more
4.5 I'm not going to pretend that I understood all of this and that I didn't glaze over through some of it but it was such a good book (and fun audiobook)!
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Nov 10, 2014
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An excellent beach/travel book and a good choice for a quick read. I think xkcd encapsulated the novel in this comic, http://xkcd.com/1536/
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Jan 09, 2017
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