Seul sur Mars - Iridescent Reads for Aotearoa Bookwyrms

Paperback

French language

Published July 6, 2014 by THRILLER.

ISBN:: 9782352947943
OCLC Number:: 1000062390

(2 reviews)

Mark Watney a été l un des premiers humains à poser le pied sur Mars. À présent, il est persuadé d être le premier à y mourir. Lorsqu'une tempête de sable mortelle force ses coéquipiers à évacuer la planète, Mark se retrouve seul et sans ressources. Pourtant Mark n est pas prêt à baisser les bras. Ingénieux, habile de ses mains et surtout très têtu, il affronte les problèmes en apparence insurmontables un par un. Isolé et aux abois, parviendra-t-il à survivre en faisant mentir les statistiques ?

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elizabeth@books.superawesomecorp.space reviewed The Martian by Andy Weir

No time for feelings; gotta survive

4 stars

Content warning Minor spoilers about character-building

The Martian still rocks. It has everything that I love in those YouTube video where they walk you through their process of making a cool new machine (https://youtube.com/watch?v=vsTTXYxydOE&feature=share).

A few times throughout the book, Mark’s plans went out the airlock and he expresses his frustration and hopelessness to the log. Then in the next log, he’s back to working the problem. He decides to survive “off camera” and I think that we missed an essential part of his character.

finktank reviewed The Martian by Andy Weir

Fun read.

4 stars

And probably at least semi realistic? Didn't like it as much as Project Hail Mary by the same author. This sorta read as a sequence of "oh crap, another thing went wrong" problems, followed by solutions. I'm certain this is realistic - or even still overly optimistic, given what they were surviving through - but kinda made for an overly long, repetitive narrative. I suspect this is part of why they cut some of these out of the movie (and to save time, but also it got repetitive). Nevertheless, a fun read if you enjoy sci-fi that sticks close to contemporary science.