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The Martian: Potatoes, Poop, and Pioneers -

I am not a huge fan of reading science fiction, rather it has been such a long time since I ever read any science fiction in the slightest. I mean, I think the last piece of literature I actually read on the matter is Ender's Game and lets just say after about hearing about the author I didn't touch another book in the series. So the Martian, proved to be very interesting to me in the sense I wanted to keep reading it. Now the genre itself is super appealing to me. I love space things and anything to do with the future. I love talking about where our world is heading tech wise- etc.
The Martian specifically should just be a lesson to everyone how you must survive and hopefully, you have former crew members and some competent people willing to come for you after getting stuck on literally another planet. Overall I liked the story, it didn't seem like I was reading anything new while diving into this though. Just seems like a tale I have heard over and over again. I mean we gain great introspect to Mark because well obviously he is our primary focus coupled by his crippling loneliness and poor diet of potatoes. It definitely ends well with Mark preserving through the sandstorm and barely making it all of the ways to the other station. Like to me it just felt like every underdog sports story I have ever read or seen. Something goes wrong, we start to work through it, and finally, we overcome it. Granted I may just be ranting on how this type of narrative is written in general but I definitely have read other, better science fiction novels.

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