Artemis

I wasn't a big fan of The Martian but still enjoyed it. I really, really liked Weir's short story The Egg. With this book, I was hoping it would be better than The Martian– firstly because he wrote it as a novel, and didn't start it out as a web serial, and also because I figured he'd have learned a lot from The Martian and improved on the aspects I didn't like.

Instead, he somehow managed to double down on the things I didn't like and write this confusing mess of a novel, with atrocious dialogue and extremely forced humor (even more so than The Martian). I especially hate the wittyness/snark/whatever you want to call it– it's like having a fucking redditor be the protagonist of the book.

Maybe I'm overreacting a bit or being too critical. Maybe it IS bad but not as bad as I'm putting it here. Either way, if I had to describe this book in one word, it would be “dogshit”.