beaneater

“Godspeed, little taters. My life depends on you.”

Oh my, easily five stars. I was little bit sceptical about the humor that it would be too much and it will end up lame. But in a very long, long, loooong time the book actually made me laugh. And it was this amazing book! Matt Damon as a Mark Watney is just such an excellent choice.

Just from the first sentence I was immediatelly hooked. I already knew how it would end but I needed the details that didn't get to the movie adaptation. And honestly, being in Mark's head through his unfortunate adventures on Mars was so much fun. The way this character was written is simply amazing, the reactions in some situations were pretty realistic, funny and on point.

“Yeah, that's right, Mars, I'm gonna piss and shit on you.”

“More strange than the unnatural nature of the dog pack was CJ's obsession with collecting our poops. ... She would carry them with her for a time in little bags and then would leave them in containers on the street, which was even more baffling-why go through all the work of picking them up and carrying them if she wasn't going to keep them?”

Okay, I didn't cry this time. BUT this passage with poop and the ending still got my eyes watery with laugh or sadness.
When I finished A Dog's Purpose I wasn't really sure why is there a need to read sequels. And so my curiosity won and I read A Dog's Journey with little bit of scepticism how will the plot continue from this. And I'm glad I did.
The plot is basically still the same but the author wrote it so amazingly that a reader must keep reading until the very end.

“Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of life.”Wow. Reading this book was like reading an art, a masterpiece. It was my first time reading Murakami and I get why are there people who hate his work and people who absolutely love his work. And I'm one of the people who absolutely freaking loved it. The writing style is so beautiful it makes my soul happy. Reading it was like listening to a beautiful sad song that makes you nostalgic and you cry not because of sadness but because of how beautiful it is.I must wonder what the hell happened to Storm Trooper to disappear like that. Naoko also disappeared very unexpectedly. Her death was honestly a shock to me, I couldn't continue reading. I felt the same devastated emotions like Watanabe did and was happy that he didn't allow the darkness to swallow him like it did to Kizuki or Naoko. When he chooses Midori over Naoko, he basically chose to live and move on rather then be part of death.Some of the description of the women that Watanabe met might sound weird or even controversial. But it is from a adolescent man's point of view in the end.

The mystery of Rama was steadily growing; the more they discovered about it, the less they understood.

And that is exactly how this sci-fi classic left me.