You know that feeling when you’re reading a book and it’s so good that you want to keep reading it all the time but you also don’t want to finish too soon because you want to keep enjoying it for a longer time yet you can’t help yourself. That’s this book.
I wrote the above sentence in February when I finished reading this book. I don’t know if I can really say much more about how much I loved this book, other than I am looking forward to reading it again, and I don’t usually re-read books (especially with my CBR addiction it’s all about the numbers). I read on the wikipedia page that it is going to be made into a movie, of course. This saddens me a bit as I know there is no way they can relay the magic of this book onto the screen.
“The Martian” is about an astronaut stranded on the titular planet. (I love the word titular, it is titillating). There is a snafu with an evacuation and he is left behind. The rest of the book details his struggle to survive and it is a mix of science with a good dose of humor mixed in. If you are at all interested in reading it, just go for it you will not regret it. I prefer not to know too much about books before I dive in as I find it makes it all the better when you find a really good book, and to me this was a really good book.
Incandenza wrote a great review of this book over on CBR, and he (or she) pretty much read it in one sitting. Very impressive! As stated above I felt the same way, binge reading when you find the right book, cannot be beat!
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