Book Review – The Martian

I read this back in March, but never put up a review??? Whaaaat???

It deserves a review.

When Mark Watney is stranded on Mars – alone – he will have to use every ounce of cunning to contact NASA and make it back home alive.

Here’s the mini-review I put on Goodreads right after I was finished:

“I’m speechless. This is a book that never got dull, never let me put it down. I stayed up past midnight TWICE to keep reading. Painfully wonderful. I loved Mark’s humor. I loved the other characters. Gah I just loved the whole thing.”

You know what?  I feel like that sums it up pretty well.  Amazing characters.  Fabulous humor.  Never a dull page.  Not a wasted sentence.  Cool sciency-things if you’re a science person, but not written in such a way as to confuse non-science people.  Space.  Mars.  Laughter.  Hope in the face of hopelessness.

GO READ IT.
EVEN IF YOU’VE ALREADY SEEN THE MOVIE.

Content advisory: quite a bit of language, but used in humor rather than to offend.

SERIOUSLY.  THIS IS A BRILLIANT BOOK.  GO NOW.