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title = "The Martian - Andy Weir"
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date = 2015-07-18
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tags = ["books", "andy weir", "review", "scifi"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18007564-the-martian):
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Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on
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Mars.
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Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.
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{{ stars(stars=5) }}
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Initial warning: I'm a science nerd. Not that I'm good at science, but I
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really enjoy reading about science: Tell me how to split an atom and I get a
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boner; show me a path around the space with two slingshots effect and I jizz
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in my pants.
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That's why I liked this book this much. It is kinda like the movie "The Core",
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but without the bullshit plot and materials and whatnot.
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So it seemed, at first, that the book was only about one guy lost in Mars and
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his attempts to survive. But the book encompasses a lot more than that.
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Without giving too much spoilers here, it explores a bit of science, how the
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space companies work, how much work it takes to launch a single rocket and so
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on.
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As I mentioned, there is a *lot* of science in the book: How create water, how
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to create hydrogen, chemical reactions...
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In the end, it is a really good book if you're a nerd.
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