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The Martian
The Martian: A Novel | Andy Weir
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.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that hes aliveand even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old "human error" are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skillsand a relentless, dogged refusal to quithe steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?
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Doppoetry
The Martian | Weir, Andy
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I loved this novel. I haven't read a Man vs Nature story in a long time and this was a very interesting spin on it. I do think some characters lacked characterization but they all felt unique in their own right. I love how everyone came together in the end and different parties working towards the same goal. It really made me feel hope for humanity. Great read.

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Doppoetry
The Martian | Weir, Andy

Half way done with this book already and it does not cease to make me laugh every time.

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Doppoetry
The Martian | Weir, Andy
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#Bookreport

📚Currently reading:

📕The Goblin Emperor
📕A Storm of Swords - A chapter a day
📙Lord of The Necropolis
🎧Emma
🎧Night of the Hunter
🎧The Martian

Progress:

I am officially caught up with Murderbot ✌🏻 keeping with the Sci-Fi theme I started The Martian this past Friday and am loving it. I have wanted to read it for a while and I am glad I came around to it, finally. Looking forward to another week of good reading.

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Doppoetry
The Martian | Weir, Andy
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well, this isn't something I thought I'd see in a Sci-fi book.

I am actually enjoying this book a lot.

Doppoetry Maybe it's different in older editions, but in 5e “Create Food and Water“ just sounds like a perfect Cleric/Paladin spell to have in Mark's situation. 1w
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TheGothiqueLibrarian
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He turned back to Venkat. "I wonder what he's thinking right now."

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TheGothiqueLibrarian
Pickpick

I enjoyed this so much!!! Very witty, funny, and an edge of your seat easy read. I loved it more than the movie!!

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melissajayne
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4⭐️ I read this for a #bookclub meeting today and quite enjoyed it. Some of the things was a little bit dry but found it enjoyable. #2023 #reread #sciencfiction #fiction #bookreview #bookstagram

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Rachiiebookdragon
Pickpick

I listened to the audiobook of this one via BorrowBox,
I enjoyed it mostly.

Read for reading challenges.

3.75/5

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RyanMHoward
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Pickpick

Finally read this one! Always loved the movie, and so it was high time for the book.

After his crew is forced to leave him behind during a storm, botanist and astronaut Mark Watney is straight up stranded on Mars. So begins a survivalist adventure where Mark works to grow food in his hab module and sustain himself in hopes of a rescue.

Complex science is made fun and engaging in this wildly intense (and funny!) tale led by a quirky protagonist.

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Christinak
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Next up. Working on books I feel like I‘m the only person left who has not read it yet.
#PBSGreatAmericanRead

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TheSpineView
The Martian | Andy Weir
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Eggs Perfection 🧡🧡 10mo
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ShyBookOwl
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I think I can officially name this as one of my favourite books 😅🤓
I love it so much.

Morr_Books Best opening line ever! ❤️ 11mo
ShyBookOwl @Morr_Books Yes!!! So good 11mo
peanutnine I've read it multiple times as well. So good! 11mo
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LoverOfLearning
The Martian | Weir, Andy
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I did not expect to like this book as much as I did!

I loved it, although I think I did enjoy the movie just a tiny bit more. Which doesn't often happen.

4 star read!

Jari-chan What a nice edition! 11mo
Liatrek One of my favorite and love this cover🙂 11mo
LoverOfLearning @Jari-chan @Liatrek just some fan art I found online! It's gorgeous right! 11mo
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JuliaTheBookNerd
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Pickpick

This is one of my all time favorite books and is definitely a book I recommend often 💙

#BookYouOftenRecommend 📖 #MarchMagic 💚💰🌈🍀

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 🧡 12mo
Eggs 🧡❤️🧡 12mo
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TheSpineView
The Martian | Weir, Andy
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#SundayFunday @ozma.of.oz

Science Fiction and Fantasy run neck-and-neck for my top spot. So many goods books in both genres.

BookmarkTavern Oh this is such a good pick! Thanks for posting! 12mo
TheSpineView @ozma.of.oz 🤩👍😊 12mo
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SaunteringVaguelyDownwards
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Introducing Watney! Named after the title character in The Martian because he “sciences the shit out of“ everything, from opening closed doors to figuring out the angles needed to bat toys out from under the furniture.

Seen here with my sister's fantastic Christmas gift!

#catsoflitsy

julesG Perfect! 1y
julesG I meant: purrfect 1y
Liatrek Omg love it!!! 1y
peanutnine Love this! Great name! 😻 1y
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thebacklistbook
The Martian | Weir, Andy
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BookmarkTavern
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Thanks for all the well wishes yesterday! I hurt my hand at work, but luckily it‘s only bruised, not broken.

On a road trip, I‘d like to have someone who can make me smile, but also is resourceful and clever. So Mark Watney it is!

#SundayFunday Have a great day and remember to tag me!

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Deblovestoread
The Martian | Weir, Andy
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📚 Tagged, My Antonia, My Cousin Rachel, Migrations
🖋 Madeline Miller, Charlotte McConaghy, James Michener, Larry McMurtry, Emily St. John Mandel
🎞 Much Ado About Nothing
📺 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
🎤 MCR, Matchbox Twenty, The Moody Blues, Mark Knopfler
🎶 Man on the Moon (REM) Mad World (Gary Jules) Mona Lisa & Mad Hatters (Elton John) The Middle (Jimmy Eat World) Manic Monday (The Bangles)

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psalva
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📚Medea and Other Plays by Euripides, or Moving Violations by John Hockenberry, or tagged (This was a tricky choice)

✒️ Toni Morrison, Edgar Lee Masters

🎞 The Mark of Zorro (1920) (contender for my favorite movie ever)

🎤 Joni Mitchell, Freddie Mercury, Janelle Monae

🎼 “My Melancholy Blues,” by Queen (Easy choice)

#manicmonday #letterm @CBee

CBee Anything by Queen ♥️ And I adore Freddie, rest his soul ♥️♥️ 1y
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CloakNQuill
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Mehso-so

#october #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks free #23

2.75 - 3 ✨

FINALLYYYYYYY! Took me almost a year. Half the book was a fantastic read. Then I found it to rely heavily on science which I‘m fine with but it was too much information at once. I needed to take some breaks in. Then I bit the bullet and finished it. Absolute sarcastically hilarious book would recommend but should have some interest in the science aspects.

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 1y
CloakNQuill Now that I‘ve had time to process it was more the ramblings of what he had to do next followed by ramblings of if his plans went well or not. 1y
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eol
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Mehso-so

I can‘t believe I‘m going to say this, but just watch the movie. It‘s a fair adaptation, and it has Matt Damon—the dry recitations of science stuff sound way better coming out of that face.

I‘m not saying it‘s necessarily a bad book, just way overhyped.

3.0/5

#sf #hardsf #overhyped #adaptation #standalone #standalonesf

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kelseycoleburke
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I‘m liking my #HurricanFionaRead so far but I think I‘d be enjoying it more if I‘d taken a chemistry class or two in school 😅

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kelseycoleburke
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Off to a good start #bookswithmaps

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BC_Dittemore
The Martian | Weir, Andy
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Mehso-so

Maybe it‘s because I went backwards—starting with Project Hail Mary, then Artemis, now The Martian, but I was a tad underwhelmed. The Martian reads like a first novel. There are some pretty clunky passages, and a bit too much focus on characters we see once or twice then disappear. I would have enjoyed it more if Weir had tightened his focus. Still a good read, but Project Hail Mary is essentially a re-envisioning, and it is far superior.

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La_Cori
L'uomo di Marte | Andy Weir
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#alphabetgame
#letterU

I've got plenty of books with an U and all of them are with italian titles!!

Honorable mentions:
"Gli umani" by Matt Haig
"Uomini che odiano le donne" by Stieg Larsson
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you for playing 📚 2y
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sebrittainclark
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#LetterM recs:

March by John Lewis
The Martian by Andy Weir
Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Garcia-Moreno

#AlphabetGame @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Graywacke Great list. Maus is special. 2y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I have Mexican Gothic on my tbr shelf 🖤 2y
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Bklover
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@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#alphabetgame #letterm

I‘ve read this one probably three times. I love it, and I‘ll read anything he writes.

Deblovestoread Great choice! 2y
ShelleyBooksie Awesome pick! I only read this recently and loved jt as well. 2y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️❤️ 2y
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ShelleyBooksie
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What a great book! Mark Watney is such a complex, funny and real character. I felt like I was on Mars with him for this adventure. Andy Weir is now an auto buy author for me.

TheSpineView Loved this book too! Great MC and a plot that was plausible made it a 5 star book for me. 2y
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TracyReadsBooks
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The things we do to hold our favorite books together—this is my daughter‘s and while she also has it in hardcover, this is her favorite copy. The one showing all the love…

Chrissyreadit I love it! 2y
KristiAhlers My husband loves this read as well. He finally put it on his kindle since his fell apart. 2y
Linsy Awww I love it! I still have my Pride & Prejudice from my teenage years even though the cover has gone missing and it's been slowly going to pieces. 2y
DogMomIrene 😍 2y
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JuliaTheBookNerd
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Mini bookshelf tour part 2/3 ☺️ favorite book on this shelf is tagged ❤️

Shelf 1/21 📚🥰

#BookshelfTour #TadWilliams #AndyWeir #PatrickRothfuss #JoeAbercrombie #CixinLiu

#BookNerd 💙🤓📚

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fictionaddictbooks
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Eggs 🧡🚀🪐 2y
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Blueberry
The Martian | Weir, Andy
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Bookwormjillk The potatoes 🤣 2y
Eggs 🙌🏻🌔🧡 2y
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MeganLindell
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Pickpick

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • This book reminded me that I know nothing about space and I know nothing about science. I devoured it, despite the spacey science. (I did skim over a lot of the spacey science, won‘t lie.)

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RainyDayReading
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Pickpick

I really enjoyed this! I think having seen the film before reading this helped me visualize what was going on. It‘s a little heavier on technical jargon than I can normally comprehend, but it didn‘t detract from my enjoyment of it. So glad I finally got around to reading this one! #NewYearWhoDis Also a #roll100 title for January. @monalyisha @lou.reads.a.lot @PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper Brilliant! 2y
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michellelav
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Pickpick

This one lived up to the hype 🙌 Listening to the narrator made you feel like you were on Mars with him! The thought put behind this book alao is pretty amazing. 📖 I can see why everyone loves it so much 😊 I can't wait to watch the movie 😎

Liatrek The movie does an excellent job adapting the story. I hope you like it 🙂 2y
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the_Martian
Pickpick

This book is more of a motivation for us aspiring astronauts. Being in this field the book had a lot of scientific elements explained in a neat way for every reader to understand without any difficulty . I'm just thinking what if they made the movie with two parts explaining the book neatly . This book explains a fictional test of human endurance which may occur in space travel...

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BookmarkTavern
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‘Tis the gift giving season! 🎁

1. I love when people gift me their favorite books. When people give me books that speak to their hearts, I feel very loved. ❤️
2. I have given so many copies of this book. It‘s so funny and kind of sneaky sci fi.
3. I absolutely would. I‘d want a first edition of a collection of fairy tales. Andersen or Grimm or Perrault.

#SundayFunday Have a wonderful day and make sure to tag me! 💚

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tessabordalejo
The Martian | Weir, Andy
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★★★★★

“If the oxygenator breaks down, I‘ll suffocate. If the water reclaimer breaks down, I‘ll die of thirst. If the Habitat breaches, I‘ll just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I‘ll eventually run out of food and starve to death.
I‘m screwed.”

A book I just couldn‘t put down. It has the very rare combination of a good, original story, interestingly real characters and a fascinating technical accuracy.

beenbee the person in the background is so cool omg 2y
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Kimbono
The Martian | Weir, Andy
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Next up.

Megabooks Great book! 2y
Kimbono @Megabooks I‘m really enjoying it so far! 2y
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rachelsbrittain
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Pup is helping me finally reorganize my bookshelves today so that my office isn't covered in stacks of books and is usable again 😅

BeeMagical 😍😍😍 2y
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Court7
The Martian | Weir, Andy
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Re-read, audiobopk.

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inthegreensandblues
The Martian | Weir, Andy
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#fortheloveofbookmarks - Advertising

🔖Independent Bookstores - My local used bookstore and two shops that I've yet to visit but have gotten books from
🔖Bookmarks advertising two years' Read Across Lawrence selections

@aperfectmjk

Leftcoastzen Nice ! 3y
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Texreader
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It‘s the Audible deal of the day. I bet it‘s an awesome listen. I loved the book and have seen the movie a couple of hundred times. 😁

BookDadGirlDad The movie was great. I really loved the book. 3y
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Traci1
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Listened to The Martian for a second time while working on this pokemon project for my daughter. I think I liked the book even more the second time around.

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KatieDid927
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Mehso-so

Unpopular opinion time! I think this book is overrated. Sorry guys! I do think the detail is impressive, but not being a science person my eyes glazed over in most of the super technical sections. I didn‘t actually like Mark. He‘s kind of a chauvinist tool. Having a woman as the captain of the Mars crew didn‘t help to dampen the sexism throughout. Perhaps my never-ending love for Matt Damon will make the film more enjoyable for me.

RamsFan1963 I agree with you. I like the movie but I bailed on the book. 3y
KatieDid927 @RamsFan1963 Glad I‘m not alone! 3y
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