Ria’s Reviews > The Martian > Status Update

you know what, if watney can deal with such bad odds at survival for ages, then i can deal with obviously less bad circumstances

This book did the sense of danger and uncertainties really well

Direct contact betw watney and his crew!!!

the tension pacing is really good

Omg mitch u crafty smuggler

also the ppl actually being competent and science nerds and (therefore probably lol, i say this positively) coming with social quirks and some inappropriateness esp when interacting w the more socially adept/trained manager types - but all valuing people in this hopecore scifi book - is both entertaining and charming and why did i not pick this up earlier.. scifi is such a gem genre

honestly i was very dubious about giving this 5* even though i was enjoying it a /lot/. but now, with even the non-log entries being fun and feeling like real people, i don't know what i could gripe about. yes, the lil exposition/explanation bits about the Hab were a bit dry, but they were needed to understand the catastrophic rip that happened... and introducing characters just for that or sth would be worse. so hm

The most hopecore scifi thing about this really is the world despite budgets etc banding together to rescue one astronaut.
Side note: watney turning out to have an inappropriate sense of humour is too real.. also 'ayyyyy!' Annie mocked. (Why would he do this?) 'have you /met/ watney?' May be my fav lines in the book yet lmao

Lmao the exultation and then.. how do i delete embarrassing log entries

Remembering some of the bad reviews back when this came out lol the errors and complete unhelpfulness of their taste