The Martian??

[dear_tiger]

I accidentally stumbled into a strange land, you guys, and crabwalked out of there as quickly as I could. It's the one-star reviews of The Martian on Amazon. I initially went over there because I'm a horrible person and have been meaning to leave my single star on this piece of trash and explain why. I would've given it negative stars if that was

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[blackrabbit42]

This is making me laugh so hard, because I feel responsible. And also I think it's funny how we both have exact opposite opinions of the book. I do however, share your opinion of that kind of wank Seriously, people don't have anything better to do with their time?

:)

[dear_tiger]

But you shouldn't feel responsible! I bought that book on my own initiative, without recommendations, based on those 6K of glowing reviews. :D And hey, you loved the book, we can disagree on that!

But seriously. Do people subscribe to the page, do that they can be immediately notified if someone said something bad about their precious on the Internet?

[blackrabbit42]

It's possible they're being paid to do so.

[amberdreams]

People bother to leave negative reviews on negative reviews? Haven't they got anything better to do with their time? *tries to emmulate Sam Winchester's bitch-face #12*

[dear_tiger]

IKR? Who the hell actually does this?

[cassiopeia7]

6000 people who love it are clearly right

CLEARLY. Because bucket-loads of folk loved Da Vinci Code, Twilight, and Fifty Shades of Gray. Doesn't make 'em great books, just popular ones. And "popular" is generally a lowest-common-denominator kind of deal.

I was also disappointed by The Martian, mainly because it began with an intriguing premise, had proper NASA!speak and SCIENCE!! out the wazoo, and was in spaaaace. ♥ Alas, its good points were quickly overridden by overuse! of!! exclamation!!! marks!!!!!, and the surfer-dude writing style. So yeah, disappointed AND ticked off that such a wondrous premise was brought low by bad technical skills. :(

. . . you burned that book yet? :D

[dear_tiger]

And I bet those geeky dudes would be mortally offended to have Twilight brought into it.

The premise was brilliant! But holy shit, it was like reading a refrigerator service manual written by a wise-cracking 13-year-old. Or, as one of the negative reviews brilliantly put it, like being stuck in an elevator with an adolescent borderline autistic twerp who wanted to talk about nothing but elevator engineering.

I considered burning that book! But in the end, it's a book, and the idea pains me. I'll donate it to the library when I make my way over there.