great narrator great story and funny as hell

I just loved it. I barely understood the technical stuff but the narrators performance was awesome. it was thrilling, it was funny, in short I really enjoyed it. I consumed it in three days despite working and that sure means something from me.

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Pure entertainment

I was entertained the whole way through. I didn't want to put it down. totally recommend

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New favorite book AND narrator!

Everything about this book is amazing. I was hooked from the first minute, loved it all the way through. You start caring about the main character so much, and you know him as well as if you were friends. Made me laugh out loud, and made me cry. It's also a perfect balance between simple and nerdy.

Wil Wheaton does an absolutely fantastic job narrating this, he's one of my favourite narrators now.

The only bad thing about the whole audiobook is the pronunciation of the German name "Vogel", which is so wrong that it took me a few chapters to understand that the character with this name is German.

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Full of profanities and very plain

Unfortunately the book is full of so many swearing and empty sentences, that it was almost painful to listen to it at times. I’d recommend it only to someone who likes Mars and doesn’t mind wasting 10 hours on inaccurate descriptions and rather simple, plain, story. The narrator was okay, it could’ve been better. The 3 stars are almost too much for it overall.

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Amazing

Will Wheaton does an amazing job reading makes it very easy to listen to.
The story is very intense and existing while being clever and humerous.
Even without a lot of knowledge about space and space travel easy to follow and so much fun.
Will definitely listen again!

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Great book, great science, great narration.

Love this book from the first to the last page.
Wil Wheaton is a great narrator for this author.

Questionable Humour but believable coping

Themes: Botany, Chemistry, Physics, isolation, accidents, coping through bad jokes,
The german accent is like the german from an english speaking guy learning it. Good enough - not perfect (for example -ig).
The bad jokes were sometimes exhausting - maybe because it is just not my humour. Maybe that was the intention.
The effects of isolation are believable and elicit empathy.
The science is sometimes hard to follow but interesting(could be because I was doing something different while listening to it).


SPOILER:
1. Someone actually dies. Nobody talks about it later on. Just some relatively immediate reactions from the crew. I almost think I misremember it because it is just not mentioned ever again.

2. Some kind of debriefing would have been nice. Not just "hey he has long lasting effects because of radiation, he does not leave the house but plays video games with friends and potentially returns to space". An actual breakdown of the crew and family processing it all - maybe over a BBQ or something.

3. The scenes of the NASA base people reacting when in the command center (or something) are picture perfect what I would write when describing them to a blind guy. There is no story telling there. I could not relate.

Gute Adaption

Die Geschichte von Andy Weir ist auch als Audiobook großartig. Die Adaption ist wirklich gelungen. Wil Wheaton passt hervorragend in die Geschichte. Auch für nicht-Muttersprachler gut zu verstehen.

Riveting! Even though I had seen the film first

Well researched, though not overly detailed with boring technical details. Liked the nerretor too!

hammer

film hat mich gut unterhalten aber, "fuck" ist das Buch gut! für alle space-nerds ein absolutes MUST! Weiß nicht, wann ein Buch mich das letzte mal abwechselnd so zum Lachen und Weinen gebracht hat. immer schön senkrecht bleiben!