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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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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
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If I was into engineering, perhaps I'd have loved this book and all of the fixes done for survival, but...I'm not. I found this to be way too detailed about the survival techniques and a bit boring. I also didn't find some of it realistic. I haven't seen the movie for the same reason I never watched Gravity...One person alone in space seems boring. 2.5 stars.
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