BOOK REVIEW
The Martian
I give this book one star for every heart attack I had while reading it...boy, what a ride!
This book is awesome and I'm seriously crushing hard on Mark Watney right now. You should all read it because it is so fucking cool and you'll learn stuff about space and shit, and maybe you'll become interested in all the things NASA are doing and grow up to be an astronaut and I think that is important, okay?!
I want humankind to have the stars, and this book, along with the movie, might just be the thing to light a fire under us. We need that fire, we need it to send us screaming out of our state of stagnation.
SPACE FUCK YEAH!
Now, I'm not saying this book is perfect, or the best I've ever read. Andy Weir is not really a great writer. He's an excellent blogger, he's got a style and sense of humour that fits me well. All the log entries from Watney in the book are solid, but when he starts writing chapters in the third person perspective, everything unravels and falls flat. All the characters are talking heads, and difficult to tell apart...except Watney. The prose is pargmatic. Weir doesn't write more than he has to, to get to the next scene.
But man, Weir sure knows how to do proper research, and then turn that research into a fun and interesting read, and not a tedious info dump.
You go, Andy Weir, make space cool again!