when Weir left his characters all-together and merely reported on something in service of the plot, like how the airlock breached or the rover got stuck. There was also a bit of drier stuff, e.g. :P I think I'd've just acknowledged that in print, as though skimming commands on a screen.
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Also due to audio over print, hearing the dictation of all of the computer code stuff was just weird. Bray is very good with voices (better with male than female, of course,) but by that time I'd come to contextualize him as "the voice of Mark," so it was a little jarring. The first time we moved away from Watney's logs and met the folks at NASA, I thought he was just speculating about how his bosses were handling his "death." Took me a little bit to catch on, and partially that had to do with using the same narrator. The narrative was a little uneven, and some of that I fault to listening to it on audio. Weir did a decent job of explaining the jargon so that I could understand, in a vague and generalized way, just what the hell was going on.
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But the story left no doubt about the level of physical and technical skill, plus sheer daring, it would take for everything from growing food, traveling the terrain, commandeering highly sophisticated machinery to work against its purpose.I knew I'd be dead ten times over, so that kept the suspense up. I was relatively confident that this book wouldn't end with Watney's demise (a little less sure for the rest of the crew, but optimistic). I can't imagine the time it took to do all of that research, or maybe I can, indirectly, just given the days, weeks and months that it took to execute plans to save Mark Watney. :P Honestly, I couldn't tell you what it would be like to be stranded on Mars, but all of Weir's language sure as hell sounded scientifically thorough. OK, enduring a hold list for the better part of half a year isn't quiiite like being stranded on Mars. :P So it's almost like I have an affinity for what Mark Watney and the Hermes crew were facing, with all of that waiting, planning, lack of communication (I tried the library staff once or twice, particularly when I was at the number one spot for weeks) and fruitlessness. I finally got it in my little hands shortly after it made it to Netflix.
So, I put this audiobook on hold at the library a few weeks before the movie hit theatres.