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I just finished listening to the audio book. The intro was really interesting and pulling. The suspense build up is breathtaking. Have you liked it?
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That would be third one!
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As an engineer I found this book absolutely enthralling, I lost serious sleep from being unable to put it down. While the overall plot was fairly predictable the turns it took along with the creativity and accurate scientific detail of the main characters solutions was captivating.
Solving tricky problems with limited resources is what engineering is all about and this book totally nailed it. The subject matter being so close to home is likely what enabled me to overlook the "poor quality of the prose" as is referenced in other comments here.
I really don't think this book intended to go out there and be an exemplary piece of literary genius, I think it went out to tell a great story to a target audience. If you didn't like it perhaps you should consider yourself not a member of said audience :)
Edit: Found some quotes that were so memorable I wrote them down. "my asshole is doing more to keep me alive than my brain" and "Brought product to surface of Mars, it stopped working. 0/10" Gold
"Log Entry 300: WHALES ARE MAMMALS! NOT FISH! HOW AQUAMAN?! HOW?!"
It's got to be especially great for an engineer, but really it's great for anyone who has troubleshooted an issue before. It's basically a whole novel of a guy troubleshooting his situation.
This is why I liked the book, others complaining about it not being very good because of lack of character depth or evolution seemed to have not appreciated this very much. People say they didn't care what happens to Watney, I guess I didn't so much either, I just imagined that it was all happening to me, and I care about me.
Yeah you nailed it there, I was constantly picturing myself in the same position as Watney with him being everything I want to be haha.
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Excellent point. I'm an engineer as well and I think that's why I was enthralled with the story.
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I'm in first year engineering, and this book was required reading for our Design and Communication course!
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Also, did anyone else find the most unrealistic thing about this book that CNN only had a half hour program?
I did not see it being unrealistic.
It was a daily half hour show. After the first updates that he was alive and doing quite well, they did not have that much to report. A daily update would have taken far less than 30 minutes.
By that time Mark Watney was basically old news. MA was about a lot of people who were actually missing. A live action mystery playing out in the news.
Everyone knew that Watney was alive and at that time relatively safe in a position where he could be, at least a part of the time, be observed. That lessens the shock and show value considerably.
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that's a super unrealistic thing in a lot of books and movies.
for example, the boston marathon bombing - they shut that ENTIRE CITY DOWN. basically the whole city ran into their houses and stayed there till the bombers were caught.
yet in movies/comics/books whatever the joker or some evil terrorist will be whacking people left right and center and everyone just goes about their day.
if a fucking astronaut was stranded on mars it would be 24/7 coverage, not just on CNN but every news media source on the entire planet.
EDIT: I should be clear I have not read this book yet (it's in the TBR pile) and I was just making a general comment.
True, but I found the depiction of the media in The Martian better than the stuff you see in like 95% of books and movies. Often news reports are just used as ways to summarize what's happened so far, but in The Martian the media plays a significant role in how certain plot points develop.
And, in fairness, Weir never says that CNN isn't covering the story to some degree the other 23.5 hours a day. Just that they only have half an hour explicitly devoted to it. Which isn't beyond the realm of possibility, since it's a story that'd develop much slower than your traditional news story (after all, CNN can't send a correspondent to the field to see what Watney's up to).
There's also historical precedent to having a dedicated block of news time to deal with one particular story - that's how Nightline got its start.
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There was a gas leak scare on the ISS recently and I don't think any of the major news programs covered it at all...
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This book had me laughing outloud often. (The Audible voice over guy is great!) At one point I was so into it my wife started to get jealous, I was spending so much time listing to it. (In her defense, I have been working a lot.) This is a very engaging book.
Good to hear. My brother in law got it for me for Christmas and i listen to a lot of audiobooks on my commute. Perfect.
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I have not enjoyed a book this much for many, many years. Pure, unadulterated geek-fest. Loved it!
My favorite part:
"He's stuck out there. He thinks he's totally alone and that we all gave up on him. What kind of effect does that have on a man's psychology?" He turned back to Venkat. "I wonder what he's thinking right now."
LOG ENTRY: SOL 61 How come Aquaman can control whales? They're mammals! Makes no sense."
aw man, I was rotfl with that one. I proceeded to smirk and giggle for another 30 seconds in a quiet coffee shop. Its really hard to accomplish that kind of contrasting quick cut humor so effectively in literature, and he nailed it.
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Sure it does. Aquaman is of the sea and controls/influences that which resides in the seas, such as Whales
Well, yes, I certainly don't agree with Mark. That wasn't the funny bit, though. ;)
The bit about no one being able yo hear you scream in space... Like a little girl is very fun too
The second to last line in the book (which I will not spoil) was also hilarious!
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It is indeed a very interesting book, I just thought the characters lacked
debt depth... but then again they didn't really need to be. I enjoyed it in the same way I enjoyed jurassic park or the davinci code, a good page turner, but not especially memorable.
The difference between this and another survival story: robinson crusoe, is mostly about character depth and development. You care about Crusoe in that book, but you care about how Watney makes it in the martian.
You care about Crusoe in that book, but you care about how Watney makes it in the martian.
I feel like that is something pretty unique to this book, and for me it was most of the allure of it. Now, I love character-based books and usually care a lot about depth of character, but this book felt like an alternate center of story. You're right, I cared much more about how Watney made it than about his personal struggle with old sitcoms, but that is what made this book such an interesting read to me.
It appealed to my inner engineer, rather than my inner psychologist.
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I had a different reaction. I really felt for Watney. He tried very hard to use humor to stay in good spirits but shit just kept going wrong. I liked how he addressed multiple times that he was probably going to die and this might be his last log entry.
I thought he was so ridiculously lucky that it was almost implausible.
A lot of stuff went wrong that shouldn't have, I'm not sure I'd consider Watney lucky.
I'd say that he was unlucky that things went very wrong several times, but very lucky to have survived those things that went wrong.
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I don't know.. I really liked Watney. I mean the other characters didn't matter to me but I really liked him. He was a wise cracking smart ass who got the job done.
I wonder if this is partly because I listened to it instead of reading it, and the guy who reads it does a lot to give the characters their own identities and inflections.
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Just finished this last night and completely agree on the characters. There were moments where the monologues seemed a bit strange for the people involved. I found the appeal a lot more in what would happen and how Watney dealt with the situation than the struggles of the characters themselves. There wasn't great depth to the internal struggles of the characters, but the situations presented in the book were great to read and interesting to think about.
Overall, a nice, quick and enjoyable page turner. Definitely worth a read.
I agree that the character development wasn't one of the strengths of the book and as said, it wasn't expected of the character. He is an astronaut, yeah. There were a lot of moments where the situation goes from great, he is surviving, to damn, he is a dead man. I guess the parts that made me enjoy it, are the ones that he comes up with crazy plausible ideas and implement them to survive. An enjoyable book indeed.
I agree very much. It was the funnest book to get me excited about math problems (even to the point of wanting him to go into it when he skipped it) that I can remember ever reading. It was easy to get involved from the get-go, but it did seem that as the book progressed it was just like, ok, what's the next blunder, what's the next solution. A little more psychological twist for the characters would have made the book top notch, but as it was, great fun.
"I just thought the characters lacked debt..."
Max out a few fictitious credit cards = NYT Best Seller.
I liked the JPL director, Kapur. I work in an aerospace company as an engineer and know guys like this. Guys who are incredibly smart and talented, guys who somehow muscle through seemingly impossible projects time and time again.
Just read the first few chapters but since he's adressing through a log I figured he tried to keep himself as disciplined and concise as he could except for the few humor traits and the tv show updates he's giving at the end of the logs. Somehow it feels like there is a great guy behind the words who's trying not to display too much in a log that's meant to be heard in the future by a bunch of scientists. It's that feeling when you're at some party in someone's house, there's a guy/girl you hear speaking a couple times, you don't know him/her but the persom seems highly interesting... The format is different, i don't know yet if he gets a bit more personal later in the book but i'm not expecting more, his scientific mind, his cleverness and his will to survive make me care for him already.
Sorry for the grammar, not native.
His character actually mentions this exact reasoning in the book once SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER...
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The main problem is that the protagonist never appears to be scared or worried that his life is in danger. So why should I?
He always struck me as terrified and doing his best to cover it up with humor in his journal.
That's exactly the way I felt as well, at least from reading it. I didn't listen to the audiobook, so that might be something totally different.
Well it's almost all written as log entries after the fact, so he has had time to think any time he is writing a log. Its not a precise representation of what he felt in those moments.
I think he is worried, but is trying not to freak out. He seemed to be pretty depressed when he loses most of his potato crop at one point.
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In other words, its not a confessional poet sort of story. That devalues it by modern academic standards, but I found it both memorable and interesting and so would a lot of people.
If you think the character in the book lacked depth, wait until matt damon plays him in the movie.
That judgement is a little premature. That said, the movie versions of jurassic park and the davinci code were entertaining enough if, like the books, a little shallow.
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You have to remember that these are astronauts who were trained for decades. They don't fear, panic or cry. They're the closest you can come to robots. Trained to do what they do without emotion because you don't really have time for emotion when you're millions of miles away from home
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Yeah I thought it was more of a fun science-fiction jaunt than a deep, meaningful book. It was like reading a popular science book about colonising Mars but dramatised (in a good way).
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My Goodreads review:
Extremely entertaining read. Written in a way that makes the entire ordeal seem actually possible.
I'd love to see the main character in another book because all his parts are hilarious and fun to read.
This isn't a life changing book, but it's one hell of a tale of resourcefulness and trust-in-science.
The research makes this book.
Down to choosing the year of the mission so thanksgiving would happen during earth and mars' closest orbits so he'd have the potatoes
I felt he wrote himself into a few corners but usually makes his way out of them.
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I really enjoyed it. Not very many books have made me go between, "heck yeah!" And "oh shit!" So quickly. I do wish the main character had more depth. It felt like he was just a funny guy in a crummy situation, when It needed to be more of a funny guy in a DIRE situation. I wish I had known more about his life on earth and more of went on in his head. It made it unbelievable that a year later this guy was still telling so many jokes on Mars. I liked how the science-y parts were occasionally broken up with humor, it made the story more entertaining. It just needed a little more. I'd give it a 7/10.
I loved the book. Got it for christmas and couldn't put it down. I heard it described as "competence porn"
That's such a great phrase. Exactly why I loved the read.
Anyone have any other competence porn recommendations?
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Loved it from start to finish. Dude is like a foul-mouthed MacGyver on Mars.
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This book had the same, I-can't-put-this-down feeling as Ready Player One did for me. I think I read the entire thing in just a few sittings.
[CAUTION: SPOILERS] As an engineering student I absolutely loved the book, since I could relate to the way he solved problems. I was impressed with the way Weir managed to keep my attention grasped, considering how dry the plot could have been (pun intended). My main complaint was the ending of the book. I really would have appreciated some closure when the team gets back to Earth and gets to see their families.
The original on-line version did have a brief coda: an admiring child asks Mark Watney if he ever wants to go back to Mars, and he replies with an emphatic 'fuck, no, are you crazy?'
Oh, that's how my kindle version ends.
Does the print version lack that ending?
I have the kindle edition and it doesn't end like that! o_O
I have the kindle version and the print version and they both end with Mark laid up on the Hermes with his broken ribs.
Pretty sure they changed the Kindle version when it was picked up by a publisher/they released the physical edition.
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This is my next book I'm going to read after I finish the series I'm currently on. I've heard so many good things about it!
It is really good. 10/10 recommended. What are you reading at the moment?
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I really enjoyed The Martian, really funny and the scientific basis was a nice shift from the hand-waving that seems to happen a lot in SciFi novels. It left me wishing there was an epilogue of some sort at the end, though that's mostly me wishing there was more to read.
It was a fun page-turner, but wouldn't call it amazing. Reminded me (for obvious reasons) of Ben Bova's Mars in some ways, but with very flat characters - partially a result of the premise (one person alone on Mars doesn't provide a chance for a whole lot of interaction), but even the parts taking place on Earth the characters weren't very interesting. Also, everything was just a little too pat. No real tension between any of the characters, the one administrator who dares nay-say The Plan is easily dismissed with no real tension or discussion. A very idealized version of NASA is presented - which is fine, as it isn't the focus of the book, but it just felt like it lacked a lot of depth.
It was fun to read the inventive ways Watney surmounted the problems he faced, but the question always seemed to be how he was going to be rescued, not whether he was going to be rescued. But it accomplished everything it set out to accomplish, and was a lot of fun along the way.
Also, everything was just a little too pat. No real tension between any of the characters, the one administrator who dares nay-say The Plan is easily dismissed with no real tension or discussion
I actually really liked that. The tension comes only from the surroundings, from physical reality, from math. I like stories like that.
yeah, i hate fake drama like on the walking dead. "oh, you think we should do X? WELL I THINK WE SHOULD DO Y! for no reason other than two people yelling at each other is cheaper than zombie make up."
in real life in a crisis situation people tend to band together pretty quick, i think. i would rather see the characters struggle against real obstacles.
I was going to pick this up at the airport this week, since my flight got cancelled and it was the only decent thing at the airport bookstore...but after reading some reviews online of how it seems to be all fun and jokey, and skimming the writing style I'm not sure if I'd like it.
It is getting tons of good reviews, and so did Ready Player One, but I thought that book sucked. It was pretty pedestrian writing which wasn't very exciting and just thrown together 80s references. I really was wishing that book would have more depth, and The Martian seems like I'd end up feeling the same way. Am I wrong?
I ended up ordering Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie off of Amazon instead for my return flight.
I don't think you're off base. I've read all three of the books you mentioned, and it's definitely fair to put Ready Player One and The Martian in the same category. Personally, I enjoyed them because they were both easy, fun reads and for whatever reason the flaws of both books did not annoy me even though the same flaws in other books often drive me nutty! The Martian is probably better on all technical fronts, however, so it's going to annoy you less than RP1. I'd say if you already have a strong interest in space, read The Martian, but if you don't, it's fine.
Also, Ancillary Justice (and the sequel) is amazing! Great choice as an alternative two either book. Especially if you're looking for something with great characters and a lot of heavy stuff to think about.
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They are quite different, but thinking about it the comparison to Ready Player One might be actually be a good one. I feel like they are at a similar level, or targeted at a similar audience, or something, but can't quite put my finger on what it is. For what it's worth, I liked Ready Player One, but didn't think it was really anything special. The Martian certainly doesn't have any more depth, and in a sense just replaces nostalgic video game references with sort of NASA-junky simple physics and chemistry-based problem solving. Both are a fun read, but you aren't going to come out with any kind of deeper understanding or broadened worldview.
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I loved the book but get bashed by book snobs when I bring it up. I've bought a couple copies to give to friends.
As one of those book snobs, I'll offer my two cents.
First, it's not so much that I "can't comprehend" an engineer would talk and act like Mark Watney; it's that I don't believe the book ever went beyond this shallow characterization or probed past his juvenile antics to show any emotional depth or nuance, given the life or death situation he was in. There was nothing to him beyond the dumb humor and the methodical thinking about survival, yet I can't imagine how even a nerdy engineer, but particularly one capable of being selected as an astronaut, would be quite so flat, would remain so emotionally unaffected by the isolation, would be so unreflective.
But that builds to something bigger: Most lovers of literature--us so-called book snobs--usually want something more than just surface-level entertainment and nuggets of passing knowledge in our reading. We're typically looking for something that grapples with big questions about life, something that makes a statement about the human condition, something that rattles or rallies us, something that makes us feel and think (about more than technicalities) hours/days/weeks/years later, something that is art and not just entertainment.
To me, The Martian did little more than entertain (and even that was dully executed). It had no higher purpose for me. I finished reading and thought, "Well, I have nothing substantial to take away from that. Mark Watney was a knowledgeable but otherwise dipshit astronaut who managed to live for a time on Mars and crack stupid jokes. It hasn't affected me. I can't do anything with it." AND "I doubt Andy Weir was really aspiring to anything other than an entertaining novel, which is fine, I guess...but I want books that offer more than that...and it's a shame because the premise of this book is such that there could've been something really rich and literary here."
What I just read sounded to me like most book snobs aren't into engineering problems and survival battles but want space opera human drama instead. I like science fiction told more in a documentary like style. That is what my brain likes to think about, not the characters and their interactions or developments.
Having worked and lived as a nuclear reactor operator on a submarine, and having faced serious engineering challenges that (on a couple occasions) risked my life, I still felt the exact same way /u/wantonlife did.
Watney's tone throughout the book never changes and it gets really annoying at times. Such as when the hab blows and Watney flies away from the hab in the airlock. The tone at that moment should have been horror, terror, frustration, anger, a massive mixture of these things. Instead he says "fuck" a couple times and immediatley "Well whee diddly-dee-doo guess I got another problem to solve, wheeee! Oh gosh golly gee, I do love solving problems! And I like making dumb jokes! La-dee-da!"
I loved the problems he faced (although ultimately there were a few too many, so that you just knew one was coming every 20 pages) and how he solved them, and it created good tension in a few parts, but his tone through drug it down. And hard. Rather than feeling his pain and fear, the only character traits I took away are: 1. He makes dumb jokes 2. He hates the 70's (did we need to be reminded every chapter?)
Why can't we have both?
I guess those of us who can appreciate the full breadth of human experience will never be satisfied; we're stuck between the drama queens and the autistics.
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That's not why "book snobs" bash The Martian, and it sounds like you're choosing to forget all the stupid snappy one-liners sprinkled throughout the book.
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FWIW I'm an extremely nerdy scientist and 100% of my reading is SF and fantasy, but even I thought this book was pretty badly written. It has a great premise and the problem-solving is fun for a while, but it's just kind of clunkily written and the characterization is really, really weak. And sure, some engineers talk like that - the ones who work urban desk jobs and who don't work in remote areas in life-or-death situations.
(Does that make me a "book snob"? If so, where do I get my book snob card? Is there a secret handshake or something? Also, do I have to pay dues?)
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Repost of a comment last time this book was discussed here (an entire 9 days ago):
My reaction to this book swung nearly 180 degrees while reading it. For the first third I loved it and was recommending it to everybody, but by the end I really disliked it, had come to view it as mediocre and had stopped recommending it.
Though I enjoyed the engineering and the premise, the characterization was godawful. I got progressively more disbelieving that such a juvenile, semi-autistic character would have been selected for NASA for a space flight. It seemed like a nerdy IT redditor's conception of how normal people behave and talk. This is what made me really start cringing through the middle of the book.
The worst problem for me was that the lead character had no emotional life. His total lack of any real grief, despair or introspection, ever, started to break my suspension of disbelief. There's a lot of research showing that normal human beings suffer extreme psychological trauma when kept in solitary confinement like he was; it distorts the psyche remarkably. But the protagonist really showed no believable effects of such extreme loneliness and isolation. It's as if the author doesn't even understand that being isolated from all humanity for over a year might affect a normal person in any way.
Also the protagonist had a habit of talking in juvenile slang and wisecracking his way through everything. To a certain extent I can see dark humor being realistic, but this wasn't executed well enough to feel like dark humor - it felt like, again, an IT guy who's trying to be a writer and still saying "yay" all the time because he thinks it comes across as edgy and irreverent, but it actually comes across as weirdly juvenile and also out-of-character. He's supposed to be a biologist and a NASA guy; I'm a biologist myself and pretty nerdy, but you snap the hell out of that kind of juvenalia in grad school. You learn to have a professional persona. Same with NASA types, they've been trained out of that crap and they stay 100% professional when on mission, even when it's a disaster and they're dying. Especially during communication. It got so I wanted to throw the book across the room every time I hit a "Yay."
Writing-wise it was stiff and flat prose. Competent enough in terms of conveying pieces of information - "and then I did X and then I did Y and then I did Z" - but not in terms of evoking any deeper emotions, or sense of place, or any sense of lyricism. The book is largely written like an engineering manual. But those X-Y-Z engineering-manual sequences can only sustain my interest for just so long. By the last third of the book I no longer really cared about the exact number of solar panels on his little car, or their efficiency, or the precise blow-by-blow details of how he cut through some panel or other. By the last few chapters I was just flipping past pages and pages about solar panels just to see how it finished.
(If I am allowed one last rant: HE MESSED UP THE BOTANY. Supposedly he's a great botanist and he saves himself by growing potatoes, but he messed up a few things about how potatoes grow.)
Now I wonder if this was something done deliberately or something he realized after the novel had been completed and created this reasoning in response to this common question.
and I hope the reader didn't notice.
Sorry dude, we readers are not that easily distracted by shiny solar panels. By the middle of the book, I realized Watney wasn't going to stare into the abyss, so to speak. After that, the book seemed incredibly shallow and boring. And the ending was ludicrous... Just a bunch of hoo-rah bullshit.
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Hahah I kinda loved your rant, I'm an engineer (at NASA, actually!) and was mostly impressed with the engineering stuff but some of it was also a little laughable (which is ok! It's a book, after all). My particular area of expertise was very incorrectly done, so I'm personally biased as far as how "correct" this book gets it but lots of folks here (at NASA) really like it, if for no other reason than we like when engineers can be heroes just by engineering. And also, yay for people being into space books!
One thing you noted that not many people seem bothered by is the lack of psychological trauma from a multi-year solitary confinement. While astronauts are perhaps some of the most well-equipped people on the planet to handle that (lots of psych testing to determine if they'll snap on long stays away from home, etc), there's also a huge psych team here (JSC) that would have been ALL over this and would have immediately been asked to inform the higher ups on how he could handle all this, etc. So I wish they had showed that side of the JSC managers' decisions as well.
yeah, I kind of was expecting some kind of mental breakdown at some point in the story. Especially after a lot of things go wrong and things look pretty bad.
Cool perspective. The book hinted at the mental or psych trauma which he deliberately kept under wraps. As I recall it was difficult for him when the potatoes died, and when he finished his last "meal" and was stuck with potatoes. The book kept the psych trauma part purposely muted. One doesn't solve technical problems with emotion.
I guess I just don't understand where you get the whole "100% professional" part from.
We had astronauts on the moon with pictures from Playboy in their official checklist. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/a12_cdrcuff.pdf (page 6 - "Seen any interesting hills & valleys?")
Why is it so unreasonable that this particular astronaut wouldn't have the mindset that he does? Why can't he laugh at juvenile things?
The rest of your complaints seem to stem from not being a very fun person. "you snap the hell out of that kind of juvenalia in grad school. You learn to have a professional persona."
I may come across as sounding not very fun because I was so annoyed with the book!
Sure scientists and NASA types goof off now and then, but this book erred way too far on the side of being kind of goofy/immature almost all the time. So, I've spent my entire career working with scientists (and some military types - mostly US Navy, sometimes NASA) in really remote harsh areas where you have to stay on your toes about survival. I've had 8 seasons on remote Arctic tundra for example, in teams of a dozen scientists/engineers, plus some work in remote mountains, isolated island chains, etc. I must've worked with hundreds of scientists and engineers in places like that at this point - including a lot of botanists just fwiw! I loved those places, and yes we did have fun, but the way this book was written just rang really false to me. Yeah, you have fun, you have goofy costume parties and watch movies and smuggle whiskey into camp and play stupid word games and poker games and so on - we dragged each other around on the lake ice on snowmobiles all the time for example - but when the weather goes south and you're really having to jerry-rig something to stay alive (this has happened to me several times actually), you just don't say "yay" and "boo" like this author did. Or at all, really. Field logs tend to stay really crisp and professional. (I've read tons of field logs) When field logs get personal, they tend to get really philosophical or even artistic. And though there's black humor it's much more mature and articulate (and, frankly, funnier) than what this book was trying to do.
I don't think it's just me - all the scientists I work with can be funny as hell, and they're tough as nails when shit goes down, and every one of them has been in a life-or-death situation at some time or other; but they just don't ever sound like super-dork Comicon 7th graders the way this book did. I don't know, something about his language just really rang badly false to me.
And though there's black humor
Damn right. As a submariner that is far more a likely "humorous" coping mechanism than "YAY ZOWEE! BOO!" I think we spent more time talking about who we would kill and who we would keep after we mutinied after a thermonuclear war (it was basically a given that we would do this because why the fuck not? the world's dead) ; what we'd do if a zombie got onto the sub ; the different ways to commit a perfect murder ; etc.
The boredom games wouldn't work for him because he's completely a lone (the movie game, the actor game, etc.).
Shit would have gotten weird. Really weird. Full-on-crazy weird. And dark. Really dark. I give no craps how well adjusted someone is, he isn't in a controlled situation anymore, he's fighting to survive second by second in complete isolation.
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He wasn't in solitary confinement with nothing to do but live in his own thoughts and go mad. He was on Mars and had a challenge goal that required him to very carefully and thoroughly plan each step he took. It would have been mentally exhausting but not maddening.
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I'm having a hard time continuing with this and I'm only on Chapter 11. All these criticisms are basically the same as mine. There's too much technical stuff repeating over and over and over and Watney's sense of humor has gone from endearing to grating. I want to finish it, but it's gone from being something I read daily for a chapter or two to every few days for a few pages.
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Thank for your write up. This exactly sums up how I felt about the book. Additionally everyone on earth were written as though scenes and characters from a Michael Bay movie.
This is spot-on in my opinion. I felt the exact same way.
Couldn't agree more, while I thought it was a good piece of sci fi, I got sick of reading about solar panels, atmospheric pressure and hyrdazine by about page 150. I was expecting to hear about his despair, and his joy, the roller coaster of emotions any human would feel isolated on another world. The coolest part of the book was his indoor potato patch and they killed that off too. It was an entertaining read but the end did not justify the first couple of chapters.
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His total lack of any real grief, despair or introspection, ever, started to break my suspension of disbelief.
I had this same issue while reading. Eventually, I just told myself Watney was being a typical, unreliable narrator. His journals and logs are going to be his legacy so of course he's not going to record himself crying and despairing. He'll want to be remembered as the cool astronaut who never gave up.
This is a problem I'm actually hoping the movie will fix. Show Watney recording a humorous audio log and then as soon as he stops recording let him break down.
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Having also listened to the audiobook, I loved it. The voice acting really adds some of the depth that a lot of people seemed to not find in the secondary characters. Being an chemical engineer, I found the problem solving aspects absolutely captivating.
Disclaimer: Don't read too much into any spoilery nature in the following paragraph. None of it hints at anything in this book.
For anyone that doesn't feel the same suspense, particularly about survival of characters, I have a suggestion. Read the entire A Song of Ice and Fire series. You will never not be afraid of characters dying ever again.
The audibook is what made it so amazing, it was like you were listening to Watney's audio logs instead of reading a book. The voice actor did an amazing job with the sarcasm and pacing.
I very much enjoyed it. His humor is on par with mine, and I found myself highlighting bits of text way more often than I usually do (usually because it made me giggle.) I bought the book without knowing anything about it, and was surprised to discover it had originally been self-published.
Wonderful book. Listened to the audio version which is well read, too. Almost want to read it again already!
This was the best book I read in 2014. I got through it in 6 hours and would have been thrilled if it was double the length.
I'm currently reading it right now! Love what I've read so far. Looking forward to the movie at the end of the year.
Very much liked it. Fast moving and interesting. There was no hand-waving on the methods used to survive. Full explanations.
Favorite quote, "Chemistry being the sloppy bitch that she is..."
Awesome book! Really liked the additional humor. And would have loved to read some 50 more pages of how the return went.
The range of opinions on this book are really odd. I actually really loved this book and it amazes me that others could hate it so strongly.
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Really liked the book. Best part for me was how it got into lots of engineering details, while still being very fun to read. I didn't pay much attention to character development and all that usual stuff, because the engineering was so great. Well, not scientifically perfect, but entertaining. Might be just my own experience, but looks like this kind of scifi was popular in the 70s and 80s, and then there was almost zero of the technical stuff and everything about the boring social interactions.
Loved it. It was the fastest I've ever read an entire novel, it was in two sittings over two days. I can't wait for the movie.
Definitely agree - superbly read/acted. Listened to it in bed over 3 nights and it completely failed to send me to sleep - '3am still awake - how the fuck is he going to get out of this one - gotta keep listening' kinda sums it up.
I really like the book except I feel like he overlooked the psychological damage of being alone in space without any contact for months.
I laughed so hard at that part.
Wow a lot of people here don't like this book! Personally it's one of the best books I've ever read I think. Could not put it down at all.
I'm at uni studying Spacecraft Engineering so it was really good to see how accurate the book was from the scientific perspective.
Anyway, I loved it and cannot wait for the film!
I'm a "STEM-nerd" and, while the science was pretty interesting, the main character really irritated me by the end. The writing was fairly forgettable too. I started out loving the book but by the end my reaction was a resounding "ehhh, that was alright."
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Best book of the last year. Is the film going ahead? I heard it was.
yeah coming out in November. Staring Matt Damon, directed by Ridley Scott.
Lol. Jessica Chastain also from Interstellar will be in it as well
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For real? Matt Damon... i just don't see him as this character at all.
Matt Damon as Mark Watney
Jessica Chastain as Melissa Lewis
Michael Peña as Major Rick Martinez
Kristen Wiig as Annie Montrose
Jeff Daniels as Teddy Sanders
Donald Glover as Rich Purnell
Kate Mara as Beth Johanssen
Aksel Hennie as Alex Vogel
Sean Bean as Mitch Henderson
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Venkat Kapoor
Sebastian Stan as Dr. Chris Beck
Mackenzie Davis as Mindy Park
So another space movie with Jessica Chastain and Matt Damon? Also, I'm in the middle of reading the book. Is Mitch gonna die?
And a surprise Matthew McConaughey cameo confirmed.
Haha, I won't spoil it for you! Poor Sean Bean, I've heard this exact question also from my friend who haven't read the book yet :)
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wow..i had not heard about this...great book im excited for the movie
I think Damon will do a good job but I was hoping for Chris Pratt.
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For anyone who doesn't know, the author also wrote a couple of webcomics a number of years back before giving it up because he hated drawing and wanted to focus on writing.
Casey and Andy is the first one. They're a couple goofy idiots/geniuses living together with a varied cast. The strip focuses on mad science gags, weird stuff he was thinking of at the time, some puzzles, and occasionally some story arcs. It's funny, entertaining, and the science is usually reasonable in context. Here is one seems representative of the strip, or start at the beginning. (His art improved over the years, obviously.)
His second webcomic is an unfinished serial that's essentially fanfic. Dorothy, Alice, and Wendy are the main characters. In a research school for troubled girls. It's more story-driven, but still has some humor, and the art's a bit better. A bit disappointing since I don't think he ever finished it, but I still enjoyed reading it. Cheshire Crossing
Oh I absolutely loved it, totally a thrill book with wonderful detail. I'm even looking forward to the film, because I think it could be a great one.
I loved this book. It was a little dry when it came to the science portions but overall extremely humorous and exciting.
Absolutely LOVED this audio book. The voice actor added an element that I feel just wouldn't have come across had I read the actual hard copy. I couldn't put it down! Loved every moment of this book.
I also read this book and found it to be a pretty good story, however the ending was pretty disappointing as I expected him to reveal further of what happened to Mark after he landed back on Earth.
There seems to be a lot of people in this thread that didn't like the book (and plenty who did, fortunately). Personally, I loved it so much that after I read it I listened to the audiobook a few months later, and loved it again. If I had a mind-wiping machine I'd erase my memory of the book so I could read it again like it was the first time.
Very much enjoyed it. As several other commenters have pointed out, the characters lacked much depth... but despite the amount of explanatory text, it kept pace up well. It reminded me of a lot of the Asimov and Clarke that I used to read growing up - which probably made me more fond of it than I would have been otherwise.
As an Mechanical Engineer, I absolutely loved this book. I also listened to the audio book and I thought R. C. Bray's narration was excellent. I only recommend it to my friends who would enjoy the engineering/math aspect as I know it would be too tiresome for others.
As for the all the people complaining that Whitney doesn't have enough emotional response or depression due to isolation, go read Game of Thrones if you're looking for that dark, gritty experience. I'm glad to read a book about a hero who also happens to be an engineer.
I'm about 40% of the way through it. Holy shit this tugs at my nerd chords hard core. Can't wait to finish it.
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Loved it. Thought it was great, loved how it progressed, loved the situations and the resolutions.
I can't imagine a book more laser-focused to appeal to the typical STEM-loving redditor.
I didn't love it. Seemed almost pandering to that demographic.
I can't get over how amazing this book was. It's one of the most popular books on /r/suggestmeabook. I found it at B&N one day and bought it on a whim. One of the mods on that thread recommended it and I'm so glad I bumped it up on my book list.
I was slightly disappointed with the abrupt ending, but overall, I was enthralled through the entire book. I finished it in just under 2.5 days.
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Honestly, huge dissappointment for me. I was raised on adventure books like Robinson Crusoe and the Mysterious Island, so this genre is especially significant for me. Andy Weir put extaraordinary men (at least, the main character is supposed to be one) into extraordinary circumstances and what did he get? Some absolutely banal and common reactions - shits, fucks and moaning and grumbling. Robinson Crusoe is the story about how survival changes the person. The Martian is the brief instruction how to survive on Mars.
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Oh god I hated this book. Don't get me wrong; the story was enthralling, but the writing was so bad it made me angry. The character was so immature to the point that he was terribly unrealistic. Downvote me sure, but it was one of the worst written books I have ever read. Maybe it would be better on audiobook??
I honestly don't see why this book is given the praise it has been. The writing is terrible, the character development is worse. I agree, it absolutely was a page turner and I even made it over halfway through despite cringing over the writing the whole way through. The plot was interesting, but that doesn't make for a good book.
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Am I the only one who thought this book was total trash? I couldn't wait for it to be over. In fact, was hoping the main character would die just so it would be. Easily the worst book I've read in 10 years. Not even close.
There was zero character development, like none at all. I didn't care about the welfare of anyone. I got to the point that I was just trying to breeze through pages just to get done.
Worst of all, I thought the main character, the guy I'm supposed to believe is an astronaut, had the maturity level of a 13-year-old. He wrote like one, basically every chapter was "I nearly died. The ship blew up. BOO! I can make potatoes. YAH! Let's watch bad 80s TV."
So tremendously bad.
I could see how it would be better in audio or as a movie. But the book, I don't get the love at all.
I "read" the audiobook version. Maybe that contributed to my enjoyment of the book.
I made this comment a month ago:
I had to stop reading. Decent premise for a book. However, the protagonist is a highly educated astronaut, making him a pilot/scientist/engineer/etc. yet speaks and complains like a whiny kid. Very unbelievable.
I really agree actually. Maybe it was hyped up too much, but I thought the whole thing read like a transcribed action movie. The lack of character development was the biggest flaw for sure, I wanted to like homeboy stuck on Mars but why should I? Definitely would not call it 'absolutely amazing', maybe 'moderately tolerable'.
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I stopped reading the book for the same reasons. Then I thought I'd give it another try as an audio book. It was still awful, worse maybe. I have no regrets not finishing this one.
Agreed. The writing is pretty bad. Character seemed way too chipper throughout, no despair, loneliness, anger. Very little emotion throughout.
Ever met a real engineer? Like, NASA-level engineer? These folks are very Spock-like in their approach to life. It didn't strike me as odd at all. He was dispassionately solving problems; that's what engineers do.
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One of the best books of the past year, and in my top 10 SF books ever. Excellent read. Can't wait to see what he comes up with next.
such an overrated book... The whole book is just clever problem solving, never once does he get stuck or freak out, or anything he's just witty and clever and knows exactly what to do. so boring
It was good but I didn't think it was mind blowingly amazing. I couldn't stand the main characters personality. It just seemed unrealistic for the situation he was in and how old he was yet I was constantly intrigued by the stuff he came up with. Really, the character development was the only thingI dislike in the book, but that's a pretty big thing to me. No one besides the main character was developed, and the main character acted like a 16 year old the whole time. I think it would have been better if the book was a bit darker. Like after something bad happens to the main character, have him flash back to childhood memories or something, not joke about the situation.
Why do you think he acted like a 16 year old? Because he was cracking jokes and tried to be funny? I think when you are in that situation you take whatever you can get in order to cheer up. Imho Watney managed to survive for so long because of his character traits. He had been especially chosen because of that, something they mentioned in on of the Watney-Reports. Personally, I liked reading about a "the glass never looked fuller" type of guy, it was a nice change of pace.
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I thought it was awesome because I think I would've reacted in a similar way if all that happened to me. I was all about figuring out the path of survival like it was my survival on the line. I am glad it wasn't cluttered up with distracting human drama. Complaining about lack of character development and this is like complaining about lack of character development in the movie Apollo 13.
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Just finished this, not sure anyone is on this thread anymore but one of my biggest takeaways from the book was the approach to problem solving that I am assuming must be trained for astronauts, etc.
When they had a HUGE problem with lots of potentially impossible problems, that didn't mean they just threw their hands up in the air and bailed - they tackled the FIRST part of the problem, assuming that they'd solve the other impossibilities afterwards.
It's really something I'm going to try to utilize in my own life, especially since my problems will be decidedly less hard to solve than being stranded alone on Mars.
Loved it! Thanks for the recommendation, reddit! Ready for any other great books to read. (starting "Ready Player One" later today)
This was easily one of my favorite books that I read last year! Glad you enjoyed it!
I listened to the audio book as well. It gets a thumbs up for the interesting ideas and story, especially if you like to nerd out about space exploration.
The part that goes on on Mars is awesome. It's just the protagonist talking to himself through audio logs, and it works really well. It's well written, he solves problems in a way that sounds scientifically plausible which adds to the realism, and the pacing of what happens on Mars manages to keep up the suspense. It's space exploration meets survivalism and technical geekery, brilliant stuff.
The part that happens away from that...could be shorter. For instance, all through the description of a board meeting at NASA my mind was stuck thinking how's that guy doing on Mars and why is the author telling me all these boring things. You could cut about a third of stuff that happens away from Mars and you wouldn't lose much. A lot of it is "he said", and "she said" with very little characterization or description and it would work better in a movie script than a book. But it's not terrible and it kept my interest up enough that I could get through it.
I had a good time and I don't think you will regret reading it, and if you are a science/space buff it's worth it just for nerding out over the technical stuff he does to survive in the environment. I would recommend it.
It was a good book, but it did get pretty monotonous when it came to the technical stuff at times. I like the technical stuff seeing as I'm a computer engineer, but it drags on occasion.
Enjoyable, but definitely not very good from a literary perspective.
I am currently listening to this audiobook as well and am absolutely enthralled. Completely love the writing, the wry wit, the pacing. It's like "Castaway" on Mars. Can't wait to finish it!
Oh yeah! It completely surprised me! I did not at all expect it to be my style of book, but i just couldn't stop reading it!
LOVED the book. The author managed to make science and math entertaining and funny. I've read it several times, and hopefully the movie does it justice.
Probably the best book I've ever read. Movie's coming out soon!
it's getting made into a movie starring Matt Damon!
don't forget to watch the talk he gave in google office!
I read it in 1.5 days. I used my years worth of Google Survey credit on it and it was a good investment.
I'm reading it now! It's great. Only about half way. Screw being on reddit, I'm gonna go read it now
The Martian was the first book I ever picked for myself to read and I do not regret it. Probably the most enjoyable book I've ever read, personally.
That book was amazing! It's also the same author that wrote The Egg story, amazing as well!
I don't often believe this, but a movie would be better. I liked reading this book, but all the number crunching got old. It made it seem like he was really trying hard to solve his problems, but those portions were not great writing.
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Eventually, you will want to access the Bitcoins or Litecoins stored on it. If you have the first version of OpenDime, you will need to break off a plastic "tongue" in the middle of the flash stick. Later versions work much like resetting old routers. You will need to push a pin through a marked section of the drive. Both of these processes physically change the drive. After doing this the private key associated with that OpenDime will be downloaded onto your pc or mobile device. This is the most vulnerable point in using the OpenDime. Make sure that you are using a secured system when doing this. You can then use the private key to access your funds in the same way you would with any other platform.
Mining is a record-keeping service done through the use of computer processing power.[e] Miners keep the blockchain consistent, complete, and unalterable by repeatedly grouping newly broadcast transactions into a block, which is then broadcast to the network and verified by recipient nodes.[64] Each block contains a SHA-256 cryptographic hash of the previous block,[64] thus linking it to the previous block and giving the blockchain its name.[3]:ch. 7[64]
While it is possible to store any digital file in the blockchain, the larger the transaction size, the larger any associated fees become. Various items have been embedded, including URLs to child pornography, an ASCII art image of Ben Bernanke, material from the Wikileaks cables, prayers from bitcoin miners, and the original bitcoin whitepaper.[21]
OpenDime is the making a name for itself as the "piggy bank" of cold storage units in the world of cryptocurrencies. It functions like other cold storage units with one key exception: one-time secure usage. That one key difference changes quite a lot in the way people use it. Other storage platforms act more like wallets to be used repeatedly with a reasonable degree of security. Whereas an OpenDime unit can be used extremely securely as an address to store Bitcoins until the owner needs to cash out, but only once. In a manner that directly parallels smashing open a piggy bank, once an OpenDime storage unit is "opened" it can no longer be used with the same degree of safety again. OpenDime is a platform that changes the intangible asset of Bitcoin into a physical thing that people can exchange between each other in the real world.
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Fortnite Season 7 Start Date, Skins, Battle Pass And Season 6 End News
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'Fortnite' (ALL) $1,000,000 Winter Royale Online Tournament Begins This Weekend
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Fortnite invites players to team up as they build massive forts and battle against hordes of monsters, all while crafting and looting within giant worlds where no two games are ever the same.
Here Are The Most Fantastic Holiday Gift Ideas For Fortnite Players
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Statistically speaking, you have at least one Fortnite fan in your family, and likely one in your friend circle as well. With the gift-giving season just around the corner, you may be wondering what to get them – worry no more! COGconnected is here to help you figure it out! Here are some of the best gift ideas for the Fortnite fan in your family/friendily (it's a word I swear) from across the internet.
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Fortnite's emotes tend to borrow heavily, if not completely, from hot and trending dances in pop-culture. One of these dances was the "Milly Rock," from rapper 2 Milly, who, apparently, isn't very happy about Epic Games using his dance.
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Epic Games has revealed that Fortnite is getting a mounted turret weapon as part of a future update. Based on the image that has been released of the mounted turret, it seems as though it's going to be an Epic-tier weapon, though it's possible weaker and more common versions of it will be available in Fortnite as well.
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Ryanair is offering up to 20% off flights to Germany in its latest Cyber Week deal ahead of Black Friday.
The budget airline has slashed prices on over 100,000 seats, and with travel dates from December to April it's proving perfect timing for those planning a last-minute trip to see the festive markets.
After all, Germany is renowned for being home to some of Europe's best Christmas markets.
The discounted flights are available to book on the Ryanair website but you're going to need to be quick, as the sale expires today (Thursday 22nd November) at midnight.
Of course it's not all about Christmas; there's ample opportunity to bag a cheap city break to see in 2019 in style, or just enjoy a long-weekend after the post-festive season madness. City break to Berlin, anyone?
Ryanair is currently offering eight consecutive days of sales, each day with a new deal. Previous offers have included seats for less than a fiver, and up to £30 off return flights to Europe.
However there are some deals they are running throughout the entire week, with a 10% discount on 20kg check-in bags, as well as up to 70% off all car hire - both for bookings made this week.
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But love, first learnd in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immurd in the brain, But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices. It adds a precious seeing to the eye; A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover's ears will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stopped: Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails: Love's tongue proves dainty Baccus gross in taste. For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were tempered with Love's sighs.
You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand, such as i am. Though for myself alone I would not be ambitious in my wish to wish myself much better, yet for you I would be trebled twenty times myself, a thousand times more rich, that only to stand high in your accunt I might in virtues, beauties, livings, friends, exceed account. But the full sum of me is sum of something, which, to term in gross, is an unlessoned girl, unschooled, unpracticed; happy in this, she is not yet so old but she may learn; happier than this, she is not bred so dull but she can learn; happiest of all, is that her gentle spirit commits itself to yours to be idrected as from her lord, her governor, her king. Myself, and what is mine, to you and yours is now converted. But now I was the lord of this fair mansion, master of my servants, queen o'er myself; and even now, but now, this house, these servants, and this same myself are yours, my lord's. I give them.
American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success.
What an immature, self-destructive, antiquated mischief is man! How obscure and gross his prancing and chattering on his little stage of evolution! How loathsome and beyond words boring all the thoughts and self-approval of his biological by-product! this half-formed, ill-conditioned body! this erratic, maladjusted mechanism of his soul: on one side the harmonious instincts and balanced responses of the animal, on the other the inflexible purpose of the engine, and between them man, equally alien from the being of Nature and the doing of the machine, the vile becoming!
The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.
Somewhere beyond the battening, urged sweep of three-bedroom houses rushing by their thousands across all the dark beige hills, somehow implicit in an arrogance or bite to the smog the more inland somnolence of San Narciso did lack, lurked the sea, the unimaginable Pacific, the one to which all surfers, beach pads, sewage disposal schemes, tourist incursions, sunned homosexuality, chartered fishing are irrelevant, the hole left by the moon's tearing-free and monument to her exile; you could not hear or even smell this but it was there, something tidal began to reach feelers in past eyes and eardrums, perhaps to arouse fractions of brain current your most gossamer microelectrode is yet too gross for finding.
The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry, or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile?
It is you who are unpoetical," replied the poet Syme. "If what you say of clerks is true, they can only be as prosaic as your poetry. The rare, strange thing is to hit the mark; the gross, obvious thing is to miss it. We feel it is epical when man with one wild arrow strikes a distant bird. Is it not also epical when man with one wild engine strikes a distant station? Chaos is dull; because in chaos the train might indeed go anywhere, to Baker Street or to Bagdad. But man is a magician, and his whole magic is in this, that he does say Victoria, and lo! it is Victoria. No, take your books of mere poetry and prose; let me read a time table, with tears of pride. Take your Byron, who commemorates the defeats of man; give me Bradshaw, who commemorates his victories. Give me Bradshaw, I say!
The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who are nearly half people and half bicycles...when a man lets things go so far that he is more than half a bicycle, you will not see him so much because he spends a lot of his time leaning with one elbow on walls or standing propped by one foot at kerbstones.
The immediate occasion of this practice was the lowness of wages, which at that time would not allow them to indulge in ale or spirits, and wages rising, it may be thought that this practice would cease; but as I do not readily believe that any man having once tasted the divine luxuries of opium will afterwards descend to the gross and mortal enjoyments of alcohol, I take it for granted, That those eat now who never ate before; And those who always ate, now eat the more.
They say that in D. C., all the museums and the monuments have been concessioned out and turned into a tourist park that now generates about 10 percent of the Government's revenue. The Feds could run the concession themselves and probably keep more of the gross, but that's not the point. It's a philosophical thing. A back-to-basics thing. Government should govern. It's not in the entertainment industry, is it? Leave entertaining to Industry weirdos -- people who majored in tap dancing. Feds aren't like that. Feds are serious people. Poli-sci majors. Student council presidents. Debate club chairpersons. The kinds of people who have the grit to wear a dark wool suit and a tightly buttoned collar even when the temperature has greenhoused up to a hundred and ten degrees and the humidity is thick enough to stall a jumbo jet. The kinds of people who feel most at home on the dark side of a one-way mirror.
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.
To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard of what constitutes the unpardonable. And for what? For the reputation of a man who turns out to be not even a Holocaust denier but a Holocaust affirmer. There has to be a moral limit, and either this has to be it or we must cease pretending to ourselves that we observe one.


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TORONTO — Alberta's premier announced Sunday night that she is imposing an industrywide 8.7 percent cut in oil production for the Canadian province to deal with a storage glut that has hurt prices for Alberta oil.
Premier Rachel Notley said output will be lowered 325,000 barrels a day in January because of shipment problems that she blames on a lack of pipelines. The government said the reduction will be evaluated monthly.
Alberta produces 3.7 million barrels a day, but that is 190,000 barrels more than can be shipped.
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The emails are classified and lawmakers are asking President Trump to declassify them along with other pertinent Russia docs.
Former FBI Director James Comey is reportedly in this long email chain which is dated October of 2016 – just before the FBI obtained its first FISA warrant on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.
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Christmas Eve Celebration
A special Christmas Eve service for the whole family
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Sermon illustrations & ideas for preaching about Christmas
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New Series: Established
6-week series to radically reconnect with God
A lot of people think if they just had the right "formula" for praying that God would hear them. But that's not true. God's not impressed with your form, He's impressed with your childlike faith in prayer. So, how can I have that kind of faith in prayer?
I'd like you to recite the Lord's Prayer with me:
Our Father which art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into
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Philippians 4:4-9
Christian/Church Of Christ
What do we do when it feels .as if our world is falling apart? Where do we go when it seems as if darkness .is our only companion and God is nowhere .to be found? Beloved, .the dark times of life are threshold moments. They are Advent Moments!
The Superintendent of the large Christian School... was concerned about the disarray he found in so many of the classrooms... he visited.
Papers were often strewn on the floor,... and the Student's desks... were surrounded by clutter.
Feeling strongly... that learning could not take place in
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Philippians 4:6-7, 1 Corinthians 1:7-9, Isaiah 64:1, Matthew 13:24-37
Be anxious for No Thing. Do not be anxious even over one thing. That's right not One thing.You can chose to worry. You can choose to be anxious or you can chose to take the alternative, And Give It To God.My yoke is easy .and my burden is light.
Little Bobby had a habit ......of stretching.. the truth.
One day .....while he was walking home from school .....he saw a large black dog ......run across the street ..... right in front of him.
He rushed home .....as fast as he could ......and told his mother, ...."Mom, ......you're never
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Psalms 55:22, Philippians 4:1-9
God wants us to experience peace with others and in our hearts. This happens as we walk in unity and overcome anxiety.
INTRO TO TOPIC: Have you seen all of the "Keep Calm and Carry on" posters? Keep calm and Dance… Play Football… Make Coffee… Call Batman… Stay Awesome… Avoid Zombies…
• So many people in
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Philippians 4:1-9
Do you ever get down, depressed or discouraged? Being depressed or discouraged doesn't make you a bad or a weak Christian. When you're discouraged and tempted to quit or give up four steps you need to to take are: pray, trust; commit, and work.
What to Do When You Get Discouraged
Philippians 4:4-7
Do you ever get down, depressed or discouraged? Being depressed or discouraged does not in itself make you a bad or a weak Christian. The great British Baptist preacher C.H. Spurgeon led scores to Christ through his powerful sermons. Yet he
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Philippians 4:4-7
What can ferrets and hamsters teach us about our freedom in Christ?
OPEN: Years ago, there was popular rock group named Steppenwolf.
How many of you have ever heard of Steppenwolf? (most raised their hands)
How many of you have heard of their song "Born To Be Wild"? (everybody raised their hands)
The chorus went like this (I sang it for
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Matthew 6:19-34, Philippians 4:4-13
He ask fear and unbelief to leave the room, prayer and praise will always give fear and unbelief their marching orders in short order.
The Ultimate Combo?
You've heard of peaches and cream, Lucy and Ricky, Martin and Lewis, Peanut Butter and Jelly and those were and are some pretty great combinations.
How about some of these classics, the Baconator, the Ruben, the Big Mac, oh and we cant forget this one, the western
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1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, Philippians 4:6-9
How to plead with God to hear your prayers.
1- Ask early
2- Hate evil
3- Seek mercy
4- Live righteously
5- Find refuge
INTRO.- ILL.- One Sunday in a Midwest city a little boy was "acting up" during the morning worship. His parents did their best to maintain some sense of order in the pew but were losing the battle. Finally the father picked the little boy up and walked sternly up the aisle on his way out. Just
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Psalms 5:1-12, Philippians 4:6-7, Psalms 5:1-5, Hebrews 4:16
How do you prepare for death or the Lord's coming?
Paul tell us how to prepare.
1- Rejoice in the Lord
2- Be gentle toward all
3- Trust the Lord in prayer
INTRO.- Preparation is important in all of life.
ILL.- Some guy wrote: "One morning I went out to start car to go to church. Flat tire. Lucky I had a spare. I changed tire quickly and was on my way. I didn't think to drop spare off to be fixed. I thought, "I'll get around to it." Within
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Peace is something that we long for but seems so elusive. How can we find lasting peace in the midst of a world full of conflict.
I read an article the other day that suggested that 95% of recorded history includes stories of war and/or national violence. That statistic is staggering isn't it? A quick glance at national and international news would indicate this truth. The world seems to be in constant conflict!
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Philippians 4:2-7
Christian Church
May we thank God for the joy we could have even in a troubled world. May we rejoice in His promise of future joy with Jesus. May we indeed realize what Nehemiah said, "the joy of the Lord is our strength!" (Neh. 8:10). May we ever rejoice daily and consci
Intro: Can you read the newspaper or listen to the news and rejoice? (Sample typical news) Discouraging isn't it? Only a true Christian can rejoice due to his special joy in the Lord (Phil. 4:4). Even after reading and hearing of bad news, we can still "rejoice in the Lord" because we have also
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Philippians 4:1-7, Philippians 3:1-6
The enemy has affected some of us through this battle of the mind with small thinking and inferior self esteem even convincing us that we just don't measure up to doing anything significant for Jesus Christ.
2011, A Better Year Ahead
Philippians 4:6-8 (King James Version) Pastor Ken Crow
6Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
7And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts
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Philippians 4:6-8
Church Of God
God gives his peace through his presence as we draw close to him in prayer.
Scripture Introduction
Their grandmother lived in a slower time. So her visit to California from a small town in middle America included her first plane flight. She was anxious about trusting her life to this newfangled contraption! When the family met her at the airport, they teased her by
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A road map of peace is drafted in details by our attitude in life. It is never our stiuations, never.
Nations at war are slugging it on the anvil of negotiations and treaties to draft a road map of peace. Peace among warring nations is seldom achieved, rarely maintained. Peace, as biblically understood, denotes not only quietness and rest. It also offers a connotation of
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Philippians 4:6-9
God gives thankful prayer as a means for the Holy Spirit to dispel anxiety.
Scripture Introduction
Philippians 4 offers great hope and powerful remedies for those who would have their hearts and minds guarded from threats of anxiety and despair.
[ Read Philippians 4.4-9. ]
Philippians 4.6 says, "Do not be anxious about anything…."
Jesus said the same in
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Antique Appraiser in Ellsworth, ME
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1. Crossroads Antiques
142 Main StEllsworth, ME 04605
2. Old Creamery
13 Hancock StEllsworth, ME 04605
3. Downeast Appraisers
167 Winkumpaugh RdEllsworth, ME 04605
This company/person was hired to do a standard appraisal on a home I am trying to purchase. Three weeks have gone by and there has been no appraisa…
4. Wool N Ewe
176 North StEllsworth, ME 04605
5. Big Chicken Barn Books & Antiques
1768 Bucksport RdEllsworth, ME 04605
6. J & B Atlantic Co
142 Main StEllsworth, ME 04605
7. Morgan Bayside Real Estate
711 Bayside RdEllsworth, ME 04605
I am very dissatisfied with the lack of professionalism by Marcia Morgan, owner of this company. She was an hour late and was not especially pleasa…
8. Auto Appraise
Serving the Ellsworth Area
This was my first but not last time to use Auto Appraise! Jason did an inspection on a 1948 L Type Allard. Not a vehicle you see every day! The phot…
9. Auto Appraisal Group INC
Serving the Ellsworth Area
AAG recently performed a pre-purchase inspection and appraisal for me on a classic muscle car that looked awesome and which I was seriously thinking…
10. Fleet Vehicle Disposal & Commercial Liquidations
Serving the Ellsworth Area
I attended a liquidation auction held by fleet vehicle and it was run so smooth that I picked up at a business card and gave it to my boss. He call…
11. Sencer Appraisal Associates-Equipment Appraisers
Serving the Ellsworth Area
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12. Hamilton York Estate Diamond Buyers
Serving the Ellsworth Area
13. Needful Things
211 Bar Harbor RdTrenton, ME 04605
14. Acadia Antiques
211 Bar Harbor RdTrenton, ME 04605
15. Webersinn Appraisal
47 Ring Bolt LnSurry, ME 04684
Today 09/13/2017 @ 6:15 AM in Meine, I called this company and this is how rude the man was when he picked up my call: I said "hello, I am looking f…
16. Appraisal Research Associates
29 Orchard LnLamoine, ME 04605
17. Bobbie & Dotties Antiques
765 Lamoine Beach RdLamoine, ME 04605
19. Emerson Antiques
102 Ellsworth RdBlue Hill, ME 04614
20. Albert Meadow Antiques
8 Albert MdwsBar Harbor, ME 04609
21. Antique Wicker
270 Main StBar Harbor, ME 04609
22. The Maine Eclectic Company
10 Grange Hall RdSullivan, ME 04664
23. Garry A Blanchette Real Estate
121 Cape RdSeal Cove, ME 04674
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