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Wow! I didn't think anyone wrote science fiction like this any more. I couldn't put it down--very suspenseful. Mark Watney is marooned on Mars. Will he survive? This story was filled with lots of technical, scientific facts, which I love--reminded me of Martin Caidin's Marooned or Stanislaw Lem's Pirx the Pilot stories. Watney's technical journal entries are punctuated with emotional moments, and are alternated with scenes of what the NASA folks are up to back on Earth. Will they realize that he
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Jan 09, 2015
Heather - hturningpages
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As a scientist I really have to say, well done Andy Weir. I mean, not only does this book seem insanely well researched, but it also really encapsulates the spirit of what it means to be a scientist in any field and also just a human being. A huge part of doing science every day is problem solving, and although most of my problem solving don't involve life threatening situations, the logic and perseverance required are exactly the same. Some days your experiments will just fail and you don't kno
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I'm not a big fan of science fiction but I loved this book. Gave me heart palpitations because I can think of nothing worse than being stuck alone on Mars, but Mark Watney's log entries were hilarious and had me laughing out loud several times.
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This was the best book I've read all year. I knew the movie was coming out soon starring Matt Damon and I wanted to read the book first. Saw it at the bookstore and had to have it. It pretty much immediately became my purse book and I managed to find the time to read it in a happy medium between devouring and savoring slowly modes. It is going on the Keeper Shelf, something I rarely do. If you saw Mt Git'r'Read, you'd know why I can't have much on the Keeper Shelf.
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it's a pretty exciting book. it seems like everything goes wrong. but that's what makes it interesting.
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This is a 4 star read for the general reader.
This is a 5 star read for anyone who has taken and passed college freshman courses in Chemistry and/or Botany and/or Physics and/or Introduction to Engineering.
This is a 5 star read for anyone who has taken and passed college freshman courses in Chemistry and/or Botany and/or Physics and/or Introduction to Engineering.
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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Oct 28, 2013
Vesra (When She Reads)
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Oct 22, 2014
Kris Lescinsky
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