The Martian

I'm really looking forward to the film, even though I usually dread book adaptations; this book is a film on paper (or e-ink screen).
At the beginning I found Mark irritating but it picked up when the Earth POV was introduced. The idea of rescuing someone from Mars is obviously ridiculous, financially alone, but the action was paced well enough to keep the voice in my head from saying “that would never happen”.
I think this book captured the atmosphere of climbing disaster memoirs really well, such as “Into thin air” and “touching the void”, and I love those kind of books so it worked really well for me.