"To compensate a little for the treachery and weakness of my memory, so extreme that it has happened to me more than once to pick up again, as recent and unknown to me, books which I had read carefully a few years before . . . I have adopted the habit for some time now of adding at the end of each book . . . the time I finished reading it and the judgment I have derived of it as a whole, so that this may represent to me at least the sense and general idea I had conceived of the author in reading it." (Montaigne, Book II, Essay 10 (publ. 1580))

Monday, March 23, 2015

The Martian (Andy Weir, 2014)

First-time novel by a software engineer (now also a novelist, I guess).

A team of astronauts runs into a bunch of challenges on a Mars mission.  But they are pretty resourceful.  It's pretty interesting throughout - repeated problem-solving exercises.




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