Nicole

I so enjoyed the Martian ... but this felt like the same book, with a different hero and a different set of technical challenges to be overcome by said genius and all knowing hero. I think if I'd read Artemis first, I would have like it and not the Martian ....

Read one, and weep with laughter. And then read them all. And then in five or ten years do it again.

While the writing was as brilliant as ever, I found myself less captured and transported by the book than Paris to the moon. In that sense a little disappointed. The essay on his friend Kirk Varnedoe and the Mighty Metrozoids was beautiful and true.

A short, tense, psychological thriller. Save it for the beach. I read it in two sittings ....

What a powerful book. The particulars of the Joad family are vivid and heart rending, but Steinbeck really shines in the intermittent chapters that paint the broader picture of the period.

I don't know how I haven't read this book before now. But I'm so glad to be reading it now. It was a little eerie at times – we are (again) seeing the unhealthy concentration of wealth and the poor suffering from our knowing ignorance of the needs of the earth.

The most purely enjoyable book I've read in quite a while.

Attempted to read this in translation. Lots of purple prose. The book is clumsy. I stopped roughly 1/4 of the way through. Reading should not be such work. Two stars because maybe it gets improves a lot?

The perfect book for a long flight. Suspenseful and quick. Fun to read on your way home from Norway. :)

Amusing and very readable, but a little thin. Beach book.

classic Nick Hornby, had me laughing aloud along the way . . . .