Yeah, I really enjoyed The Martian as well.
Weir is such an oddball writer in terms of his skill set. Aside from excelling at building his plots and solutions around real or plausible-enough science, his strengths as a writer are... meh?
But the end results so far (his 2nd book, "Artemis" is the weakest of the three, but also enjoyable enough) are still overall pretty great. It's just so weird to read a book and have 20% of my brain note, "Yeah, he's not an amazing writer" while the other 80% is thoroughly enjoying it.
Weir is such an oddball writer in terms of his skill set. Aside from excelling at building his plots and solutions around real or plausible-enough science, his strengths as a writer are... meh?
But the end results so far (his 2nd book, "Artemis" is the weakest of the three, but also enjoyable enough) are still overall pretty great. It's just so weird to read a book and have 20% of my brain note, "Yeah, he's not an amazing writer" while the other 80% is thoroughly enjoying it.