For those people who only read the first line of a review: THIS BOOK WAS AWESOME!

For those other people who read the whole review: To be brutally truthful, I hate math and I'm not a huge fan of science either--I'm more of an observer. However, I'm a fairly curious person and I found this book captivating, interesting, and fantastically written. A little crude on the language, but it felt necessary. You can tell that Andy Weir put a lot of passion and research into this book. Calculating mass to gravity, how to grow potatoes on Mars, and how to split the oxygen and hydrogen from water was so technical and realistic that I believe this could actually happen (Come on NASA!).

Mark Watney is one of the most humorous narrators I've read. For a guy who just was accidently abandoned on Mars after an accident, he stays pretty optimistic. His personality is snarky and humorous, making him enjoyable to follow. His humor was just the right balance and never felt dry. There were times when I just burst out laughing like a maniac because of one simple line.

If you wonder what POV this book was written in, it's sort of in the first person (he recaps his days in his logs) and there are also occasional chapters in the third person to give you insight on what NASA is up too. Additionally, there is a rare chapter that comes along every so many pages that is a neutral observation in nobody's perspective. It usually meant that something very bad was going to happen to Watney.

I highly recommend this book to everybody. Something about this novel has a certain aura to it that permits people of all kinds to enjoy it. I really feel that even if you were into cheesy vampire-werewolf romance novels, you would still like this novel, just because (I have no honest reason why. It's just really good!).