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