I have had The Martian by Andy Weir on my kindle for a while now. I had heard it was good and that it was about an astronaut stranded on Mars but for some reason that hadn’t sounded as appealing as it should and was on my ‘I will eventually get round to that’ list. I don’t know why, I love science but I am incredibly complex. Then the first trailer came out for the movie and I thought it looked amazing. I put that out on this very website and a lot of friends I respect mentioned how great the book was.
So I gave it a go. The next day I was done and if I didn’t have a job, I would have been done sooner. The Martian is a brilliant book. Absolutely superb. It has probably leapt onto my list of favourite books ever and I feel a bit of a dick for not having read it before.
Ok, here is a synopsis. A short one. Mark Watney is an astronaut and he gets stranded on Mars. That is all you need to know.
The characterisation is superb and the story is told in a mixture of 1st and 3rd person.
The Martian is one of the few books where you feel confident that the science is spot on, and shows you how important and incredible it can be. It is also one of the very few books that genuinely made me laugh out loud.
As you can tell, I loved it. The Martian by Andy Weir.
