The Martian

As one of my friends said, this isn't a book about deep theological or cultural problems. It's a fairly straight forward action flick (er, book) but a fun one nonetheless. At a couple of hundred pages it was a quick read and I really look forward to the Ridley Scott movie coming out next year.

Warning: there is some math, which you can largely skip other than to kind of know what the end product is. I know that it's turned off some people but what he figures out is the important part if you don't want to follow the math.