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reviewed The Martian by Andy Weir (The Martian, #1)

Andy Weir: The Martian (Hardcover, 2014, Crown) 4 stars

A mission to Mars.

A freak accident.

One man's struggle to survive.

Six days ago, …

Review of 'The Martian' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

A good old-fashioned space adventure story of the sort you might have read as a kid. The technological details feel very realistic, and that's the strong point of the book: making a "shipwrecked on Mars" story seem plausible.

On the other hand, the characters are two-dimensional comic book figures, and the plot is just one can-he-get-out-of-this-fix after another. It's pretty fluffy stuff.