kevinyoung 's review for:

The Martian by Andy Weir

5.0

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This is the best Sci-Fi novel I have ever read! It is exactly the type of Sci-Fi I have longed to read but could never find, a very realistic take on space explorations! No aliens or strange creatures, just a look into the real dangers and more likely dangers of space exploration! This book is filled with numbers and statistics but I found myself not minding because Mark Watney is such a fun guy! Every time I read this book I thought to myself "You just read a bunch of log entries and statistics... why where you laughing, why where you on the edge of your seat!.. it should have been boring but instead you just couldn't put it down!" I am a slow reader and normally when I get to the end of a book I am pleased that I read it but I am ready to move on to the next book... when I finished this book I wanted more... so much more... I still want more... Andy Weir, your next book should be a mission to Pluto.... or.... any planet... more realistic space exploration please! Put it in the same "universe" as this book... have them reference the Mark Watney incident... How did that effect NASA going forward? Oh Please don't fall into the trap of trying to make a new Star Wars! That has been done, over and over again... and it almost always fails... but this! This is fresh! this is new! There is nothing out there like what you wrote here! I have looked... if there is more like this, please let me know! I haven't been able to find it!