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4.36 AVERAGE
4.36 AVERAGE
adventurous
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
funny
informative
reflective
tense
Right off the bat, the writing didn’t blow me away. Maybe it’s meant to be written like an average person’s diary entries? Maybe that makes it more realistic? This originally started as fictionalized blog entries by the author that got enough of a following for a publisher to pick it up. That’s how it still reads—like a how-to for a doomsday prepper dreaming about surviving the apocalypse. Except on Mars. Once I got into it, I was chortling quite a bit. It’s rather comedic once you get used to the style. And I hear it’s very scientifically accurate, so if you care about that (I don’t and wouldn’t know either way), there’s that. I’ve kind of seen the movie (I think it was on at work one night and I caught pieces of it), and I think the end of the movie was way more dramatic than the end of the book. The end of the book felt like “… that’s it?”
A pesar de que he acabado las últimas páginas con una sonrisa de oreja a oreja, en general ha sido ABURRIDÍSIMO.¿Por qué nadie me ha advertido de ello? Entiendo que cada minuciosa descripción de los cálculos necesarios para acondicionar una granja en Marte dan credibilidad a la historia que nos está contando, pero a mí me han ido perdiendo por momentos. Si Andy Weir quería transmitirnos que ser un náufrago en Marte no es nada emocionante, desde luego, tiene un 10.
adventurous
funny
hopeful
inspiring
tense
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
An enjoyable book however I did not have the knowledge to grasp most of the science content and that did make it difficult to read.
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
slow-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
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is definitely one of my favourite books I read this year.
I really liked how Andy Weir tried to write everything as realistic as possible technically explaining what the character does.
(Probably I will re-read this when I want to take my time to understand all the technical stuff... this time I sometimes didn't bother and just read on. But it's still a great book with humour in it (that surprised me :D).
I really liked how Andy Weir tried to write everything as realistic as possible technically explaining what the character does.
(Probably I will re-read this when I want to take my time to understand all the technical stuff... this time I sometimes didn't bother and just read on. But it's still a great book with humour in it (that surprised me :D).