I'm stranded on Mars.
I have no way to communicate with Earth.
I'm in a Habitat designed to last 31 days.
If the Oxygenator breaks down, I'll suffocate. If the Water Reclaimer breaks down, I'll die of thirst. If the Hab breaches, I'll just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I'll eventually run out of food and starve to death.
So yeah. I'm screwed.
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[I'm pretty much fucked]***
(Ebury Digital, 14 February 2014 (first published 27 September 2012), 385 pages, ebook, borrowed from my library, Popsugar 2018 Reading Challenge, a book made into a movie you've already seen)
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Welcome to my first review of 2018.
The Martian is awesome! Awesome sauce. I need another word for awesome. Supercali-whatever.
I have nothing remotely negative to say about this book, except, why couldn't it have been twice as long?
I was gripped from the start of this book and fully engaged to the last page. I cried when something else happened to Mark that seemed set to finally finish him off. I hugged my kindle with snot running down my face.
The Martian is not like other science fiction I've read. I admit I haven't read a lot. The book has a lot of technical and scientific information. Fortunately, this never gets dull or confusing. It's written in such a way that I understood what was going on and it never takes away the book's enjoyment.
The Martian is very realistic. At times, I thought I was ready a memoir of something that had really happened. I kept having to remind myself I was reading fiction. That's how real the book felt. The fact Mark is the main narrator added to this.
