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Old 03-26-2014, 07:48 PM   #19372
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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967 View Post
I did enjoy The Martian, but maybe not as much as some. I just couldn't get past the fact that he was just too ingenious. I know I should have been suspending my disbelief, but after about the fifth "horrible thing happens, Mark finds a way of getting around it" I was starting to get a bit bored of it. I guess it was fun finding out what the ingenious solutions were, but I'm not sure I'd ever believe one person would come up with them all.
If I over-thought it too much I would be concerned that more wasn't made of the danger from gamma radiation overdose from all those EVAs he made on the Martian surface protected by only his spacesuit. But hey, it's a story!
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