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Pros & Cons
Pros
Compelling storyline. Great characters. There are other characters sprinkled throughout that you'll also enjoy. Hours is a real constraint on storytelling here.
The tone is a perfect balance of science and sarcasm. The science just adds a fun flair. It sticks much closer to real science than most sci-fi today.
Andy weir plays mark, a man who is left for dead after being hit by debris from a spaceship.
The martian is one of my favorite films. Dives into the loneliness and self-entertainment while alone on mars. Brought product to surface of mars. The martian weather is unpredictable.
Cons
This is a review of the book i purchased - a product review. I find i can't concentrate on the story for the really awful sound effects/music or whatever they call it distracting me. There is background music that is inappropriate and distracting.
It really read like a middle schooler jotting down everything that came to mind. Wil wheaton is a terrible narrator. Andy weir disgusts me that he calls himself an author.
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Quality
I really felt as though i was watching on the edge of my seat with the rest of the world to see if mark watney would survive
There’s a lot more going on with the crew members that left him behind and at home at nasa but i don’t want to say more because... Read More
It is about a failed mission to mars which ends up with the astronaut mark watney stranded alone on mars
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The main differences were during his trek to the mav and in the actual rescue by the crew of the ship
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Just don’t let all the boring science dribble deter you
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Astronauts are just too awesome to comprehend sometimes
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You might assume that this format would make weir’s the martian a slow and dull read but it is anything but boring
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My main complaint is that every character besides mark watney feels onesided and shallow
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At the beginning of the novel watney briefly explains his fellow astronauts core personality traits and throughout the novel the other characters seem to feel less and less individual and unique
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Aside from very obvious differences like captain louis’s stereotypical stoicism and alex vogel’s german accent it feels almost as if each of the astronaut’s lines of dialogue could be said by any of the other astronauts
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This lack of personalization is not a huge problem however because the other astronauts have very little dialogue and are more like side characters than main ones
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If you are not a fan of chemistry or technology then i would not recommend you this book
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