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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'

4 stars

I could nitpick about the sometimes abrupt changes of POV in this book or that Mark Watley, the main character, does not have a lot of emotional depth. I could complain that occasionally the technical detail of how Mark gerry-rigs solutions to terrible problems can get overly detailed, at the expense of forward motion in the plot. But these would be nitpicks. This book is a big fat hoot, and I loved it.