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"I'm the first person to be alone on an entire planet."
What an amazing story. Watney is funny and witty and has a ferocious will to survive. From page one, you are rooting him on. He details out every struggle and every plan. He gives you the highs and lows and everything in between.
At the same time, you're with NASA with each news report, catastrophe, plan and horror filled moment. This isn't a book with warm fuzzy feelings and you're right to be worried the whole way and worry about those in s ...more
What an amazing story. Watney is funny and witty and has a ferocious will to survive. From page one, you are rooting him on. He details out every struggle and every plan. He gives you the highs and lows and everything in between.
At the same time, you're with NASA with each news report, catastrophe, plan and horror filled moment. This isn't a book with warm fuzzy feelings and you're right to be worried the whole way and worry about those in s ...more
Mar 27, 2016
Renuka
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it was amazing
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Whoa. I tried not to buy into the hype about this book. In fact, I wasn't going to read it at all (until I was sucked into the space genre while playing Alien: Isolation), but that's a different story. Suffice to say, I thoroughly enjoyed this.
While there were no aliens (boo, I love aliens), this book managed to give me all the suspense, fear, and relief an action thriller might have. My initial concern was that the book would be flat due to only one major character, but Mark Watney captivated ...more
While there were no aliens (boo, I love aliens), this book managed to give me all the suspense, fear, and relief an action thriller might have. My initial concern was that the book would be flat due to only one major character, but Mark Watney captivated ...more
Good, but a little heavy on the science for me to absolutely love it.
Loved this book. I wasn't expecting it to be so funny. I flew through reading it. Only complaint was not getting enough emotional wrap up at the end, and the pacing for the very end of the book started to slow down for me. That may just have been because I'm tired though.
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Such a nerdy book! I guess that's necessary though when you're just this one lonely guy trapped on Mars. Non-nerds would probably not survive. So kudos to nerds!
I was surprised that a story which seemed to center on just one single protagonist was so compelling. The science, although I didn't get like 99.9% of it, was immensely intriguing and explained in such a way that you didn't have to totally understand it because you can catch his drift. Even though a lot of the parts of the plot seemed l ...more
I was surprised that a story which seemed to center on just one single protagonist was so compelling. The science, although I didn't get like 99.9% of it, was immensely intriguing and explained in such a way that you didn't have to totally understand it because you can catch his drift. Even though a lot of the parts of the plot seemed l ...more
Dec 05, 2014
Holly
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Jan 15, 2015
Christin
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Apr 23, 2015
Kelli V Spann
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