[firstlight (Tony)]

I noticed that Unipol has a copy of the Martian to give away. I take it he doesn't think much of it. I have to admit that I didn't see the book in print, i heard the Audible book read by R C Bray. I have to say I enjoyed it immensely. His reading of it was brilliant, and although there is a lot of colourful language, it seemed very real an believable to me (which also made it very real).

The movie however was abominable. The characters were not even 2 dimensional... closer to a singularity. Very disappointing was the fact that the movie characters didn't resemble the personalities that the audio book brought out. The memorable lines from the book were missing, as were key scenes ans events. Worst of all was the ending which was changed completely from the text and frankly ridiculous.

In summary: My impression of the text is coloured brilliantly from the excellent reading by R C Bray, and the movie was spectacularly disappointing. Save your money to buy bricks to drop on your feet... I would have enjoyed that more.