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The Martian
The Martian
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February 2, 2015
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February 28, 2015
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Maria V. Snyder
Mar 23, 2018 rated it liked it
I saw the movie and loved it! It has one of my favorite movie quotes of all time: "so, I'm gonna have the science the sh!t outta this." As a former scientist, I love this. I was hoping the book would fill in some gaps that were in the movie and it does...to a point. The book is definitely hard science fiction - lots of science and explanations of how he figures out how things work - it's all accurate stuff, which is great, but, even for me, boring as martian dust!

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Trisha
Jul 16, 2015 rated it really liked it
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OMG! Loved it! Great premise, great storyline, great suspense! The only downside is the science tangents. Watney's character explains every bit of MacGyver-ing that he has to do in incredible detail. My background in astro-engineering-chemistry-botony is a little rusty, so when he starts droning on about hydrolizing molecules of whatever I tended to skim over it and think "ok, sure, if you say so." It reminded me a little of Michael Crichton's writing, he also gets a little science-happy. But th ...more
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