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bookshelves: year-2014, ebook_nook, favorites, highly-recommended, humorous, leg-hump_worthy, mystery-and-thrillers, politicalish, reviewed, science-fiction, owned
Mar 08, 2014
bookshelves: year-2014, ebook_nook, favorites, highly-recommended, humorous, leg-hump_worthy, mystery-and-thrillers, politicalish, reviewed, science-fiction, owned
If I ever get stranded on Mars, I'm fucked. Though, I guess I could say the same if I were to run off the road in a snowstorm, or lock my keys in the house or something. What I'm getting at here is that I am not a problem-solver who will be able to find a way to survive a crisis. If the coffee-maker stops working, and sarcasm and/or crying doesn't fix it, we might as well call in FEMA & the Red Cross, because there's a damn emergency here.
I absolutely loved this book. It's everything that I look for in a man, err... book: smart, funny, exciting, and kept me up half the night. Rawr!
I almost put off reading this book because I had recently read Caliban's War and unless I'm reading a series back-to-back, I like to mix up my genres. Keep things fresh, you know? But then the book I'd decided to read as a buffer was "Commageddon", to use a friend's term, and so I went to Mars.
And I am so glad that I did. I hit the last page of this book and kinda wanted to turn right around and re-read it. There's so much awesome in this book that I kinda want to quote all of it, which I won't do, but man, it's tempting. There are SO MANY Watney-isms that had me giggling ridiculously.
That one had me giggling for while. It was just a moment of perfectly paced, unexpected absurdity that is about as subtle as a tire-iron to the face, but the abrupt shift works. It's a nice little moment of levity to break up the tension, and also, hell yeah! I wondered that myself!
There was a lot of crassness and snark in this book, and it worked for me. Watney is a character I love to love. He walks the line between "Fuck You" and "Yes, Sir" quite well, and I love his lack of shit-giving for the "niceties" whenever he can get away with it. And this appealed to me. I'm a grown woman with a 4th grader's appreciation of crude language, poop jokes, and dry, sarcastic wit. I don't apologize for this. I embrace it. YOLO, bitches!!
The science and math were way over my head, but it didn't FEEL way over my head because Watney is such an every-guy kind of guy that even when he's calculating gigglebots to power the atmosphere-a-majigger I don't feel like I'm sitting in on a physics lecture. He makes it relateable, even though I'm not sure that many of the terms he used are technically correct. I've heard of a pirate-ninja, so not that one, but "joule"?? Come on. It's "jool". *sigh* Jeez, Watney. Read a book or something.
Anyway, I could go on squeeing and slobbering love all over this book, but I won't. I'll just say that I loved it, and that if Andy Weir and I ever cross paths, he better watch his legs because I might could be tempted to give one of them a teensy little leg-hump in appreciation. ;)
PS. Andy Weir, if you're reading this... Write more novels. :D
I absolutely loved this book. It's everything that I look for in a man, err... book: smart, funny, exciting, and kept me up half the night. Rawr!
I almost put off reading this book because I had recently read Caliban's War and unless I'm reading a series back-to-back, I like to mix up my genres. Keep things fresh, you know? But then the book I'd decided to read as a buffer was "Commageddon", to use a friend's term, and so I went to Mars.
And I am so glad that I did. I hit the last page of this book and kinda wanted to turn right around and re-read it. There's so much awesome in this book that I kinda want to quote all of it, which I won't do, but man, it's tempting. There are SO MANY Watney-isms that had me giggling ridiculously.
Teddy swiveled his chair and looked out the window to the sky beyond. Night was edging in. "What must it be like?" he pondered. "He's stuck out there. The thinks he's totally alone and that we all gave up on him. What kind of effect does that have on a man's psychology?"
He turned back to Venkat. "I wonder what he's thinking right now."
[Watney's] Log Entry: SOL 61: How come Aquaman can control whales? They're mammals! Makes no sense.
That one had me giggling for while. It was just a moment of perfectly paced, unexpected absurdity that is about as subtle as a tire-iron to the face, but the abrupt shift works. It's a nice little moment of levity to break up the tension, and also, hell yeah! I wondered that myself!
There was a lot of crassness and snark in this book, and it worked for me. Watney is a character I love to love. He walks the line between "Fuck You" and "Yes, Sir" quite well, and I love his lack of shit-giving for the "niceties" whenever he can get away with it. And this appealed to me. I'm a grown woman with a 4th grader's appreciation of crude language, poop jokes, and dry, sarcastic wit. I don't apologize for this. I embrace it. YOLO, bitches!!
The science and math were way over my head, but it didn't FEEL way over my head because Watney is such an every-guy kind of guy that even when he's calculating gigglebots to power the atmosphere-a-majigger I don't feel like I'm sitting in on a physics lecture. He makes it relateable, even though I'm not sure that many of the terms he used are technically correct. I've heard of a pirate-ninja, so not that one, but "joule"?? Come on. It's "jool". *sigh* Jeez, Watney. Read a book or something.
Anyway, I could go on squeeing and slobbering love all over this book, but I won't. I'll just say that I loved it, and that if Andy Weir and I ever cross paths, he better watch his legs because I might could be tempted to give one of them a teensy little leg-hump in appreciation. ;)
PS. Andy Weir, if you're reading this... Write more novels. :D
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“Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
Reading Progress
March 8, 2014
– Shelved as:
to-read
March 8, 2014
– Shelved
March 8, 2014
– Shelved as:
to-read_ebook
May 12, 2014
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Started Reading
May 12, 2014
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1.0%
"Now that I've finally decided on which of the hopefully awesome books I want to read, I'm happy with my choice. Killer first lines. YYYAAAAYYYY!!"
May 12, 2014
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15.0%
"Hmm... I admit that I am actually slightly disappointed that there's been a perspective shift. I get why (I see what you did there, Book), but I was quite enjoying my Watney time."
May 14, 2014
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45.0%
"Awesome. I keep giggling as I read this, which is kind of the opposite of what you would think, since this is a story about a guy stranded on Mars."
May 15, 2014
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100.0%
May 15, 2014
– Shelved as:
year-2014
May 15, 2014
– Shelved as:
ebook_nook
May 15, 2014
– Shelved as:
favorites
May 15, 2014
– Shelved as:
highly-recommended
May 15, 2014
– Shelved as:
humorous
May 15, 2014
– Shelved as:
leg-hump_worthy
May 15, 2014
– Shelved as:
mystery-and-thrillers
May 15, 2014
– Shelved as:
politicalish
May 15, 2014
– Shelved as:
reviewed
May 15, 2014
– Shelved as:
science-fiction
May 15, 2014
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Finished Reading
December 29, 2017
– Shelved as:
owned
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You read my mind! That's the same thing I look for in a
Great review lady.
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I think (hope!) you'd like it.
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Thanks Trudi. Luckily, books, unlike men, don't mind being passed around from woman to wo... wait.
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Joe, I don't think I've read very many other 'stranded on Mars' stories (only one that I can think of off the top of my head and they are quite different), but I would definitely say to give this one a go. You'll know pretty quickly if you'll like it or not. :)
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It was. READ IT.
Stephanie wrote: "Oh, I was crushing on this guy, er, I mean BOOK, so hard! Great review, mine was so much more brief, just stating how awesome this was. That's the best I could do in my Mars-struck state!"
Squeeing is a perfectly acceptable review of this one in my professional opinion. ;)
Felina wrote: "Well it looks like this sis what I'll be spending my audible credit on."
DO IT.
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You're cordially invited to read this most awesomest of Books. :)
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That's because it's awesome!
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911 told me that they do not actually consider my horrific situation an emergency, and if I didn't stop calling they'd have me arrested. ARRESTED!! (I was tempted, momentarily, because I'm sure they serve coffee in jail... right?)
Then there was a mad-dash to Amazon to order a new machine.
Thankfully, the boy Youtubed how to take it apart and found that there was a clogged needle and fixed it... and many lives were saved that day.
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Great review, BTW.
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Great review, BTW."
Thanks!