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El marciano

Andy Weir

4.36 AVERAGE

adventurous tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

While the math was a bit heavy-handed at times, this was a great, intense, and fun read. Highly recommended.

How can someone write something like this?! There is a lot that I can pick apart in this book, but I’m going to focus on the genius of it because that part of it is that good! The whole book is mind boggling for someone like me who really only knows basic high school chemistry and physics.

In summery, the book reads like this: terrible problem that will lead to death, crazy scientific solution (I would skim these parts), solution worked, and repeat over and over again. There wasn’t much character development and really no sub plots, which could have easily been added. You’d think I’d give a book like that maybe 2 stars, but really the ending was great, the will to survive was inspiring and the fact that a writer could actually come up with this stuff is so incredible to me. I’d give it 4 stars.
adventurous hopeful informative reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous challenging funny informative tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous challenging funny inspiring fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous hopeful medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous emotional informative inspiring fast-paced