Best Book I've Read In Years: The Martian

[southwesterly]

Thanks for the tip Pono Bill.
I just got it the mail yesterday from Amazon.

[PonoBill]

Seriously, if any of you guys skip over the technical stuff, you are dead to me.
This is how we go to mars.

[stoneaxe]

Great book...fun read...great character. I can see why you like it...almost reads like Monroe goes to Mars....

[covesurfer]

Stoney, I was thinking the very same thing! It poured rain yesterday, I read the entire book, finished at sundown. One sol.

[stoneaxe]

I've had to read it in bits and pieces....busy week. I'll have it finished tonight I think.

I watched The Universe on the History channel (H2) today, episode was pretty much exactly what the book is about...touches a lot of the same science.

[Bean]

Stoney, I was thinking the very same thing! It poured rain yesterday, I read the entire book, finished at sundown. One sol.

Couldn't we all use an extra 40 min in our day...

[PonoBill]

Stoney, I was thinking the very same thing! It poured rain yesterday, I read the entire book, finished at sundown. One sol.

Couldn't we all use an extra 40 min in our day...

or maybe 39 minutes and 35.24 seconds. More or less.

[LaPerouseBay]

Page turner for sure.  I really enjoyed that book. 

The story was just incredible.  Amazing adventure. 

I can hear Mark now, talking to his grandkids.  Taters?  let me tell you a story about taters and why I can't eat them...

I have a new plan to defrost my fridge.  I can toss a couple RPG simulators in there and it will be done in a jiffy.  Thanks Mark!       

[PonoBill]

I've read it twice now, Diane got the audio book and really enjoyed it so a listen might be in my future. Probably beat the hell out of Maui radio. I hate Jack Johnson and rinky-dink, every line rhymes, pseudo reggae with a white hot passion.

[surfafrica]

Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Alien) is directing the movie featuring Matt Damon, Kirsten Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Danny Glover, and Kate Mara.  Sounds like they are aiming for a Nov 2015 release.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388/

[pguidry]

I started it tonight and am 25% through so far.  Great book.

Send some more book ideas, I can never find enough to read (and I need 5-6 for an upcoming Costa Rica trip).

[oceanblueCT]

I really enjoyed this book. It was fascinatingly detailed on the science stuff, yet in a way that most of us non-scientists could comprehend. I'll be interested to see how the movie plays out.

Thanks for the recommendation, PonoBill. +1 on the Kindle Paperwhite. It's made reading addictive for me.

[Ichabod Spoonbill]

I just read the book too, based on everybody's enthusiasm. I bought it as an e-book at about 6PM because I was eating alone at a restaurant. I finished it at 12:30 AM. Couldn't put it down.

Wonderful book, and I'm an English teacher. Well written and funny. I give it seven pirate-ninjas!

[stoneaxe]

Bill has a great library of books. I was helping my Mom with her kindle which is synced with Bill's. If I synced mine I'd never have to buy another book and I consider myself a pretty avid reader. I don't think I've ever met anyone that reads as much as Bill. Family story of him walking while reading and falling into a construction site hole in the sidewalk. My aunt and uncle noticed he was missing, walked back and found him at the bottom of the hole still reading.

[Ichabod Spoonbill]

That's what I was like. I taught myself how to read when I was three and have been crazy about it ever since.


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