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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
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.
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My reaction was similar to Stitchawl's. After numerous backpacking trips and 4-wheel-drive backcountry adventures, I know that you either find a solution to problems (and there are always problems) or die feeling stupid. The problems require less ingenuity, perhaps, than survival on Mars - such as how to remove a fish hook from a shoulder without causing more damage or how to get the truck out of the sand or the ever-popular power and cooling problems, but they seem critical at the time. Need is the greatest catalyst for ingenuity.