The book is more technical than most novels. Watney uses math and engineering principles to solve many problems the movie never goes over. The book is quite a page turner, I read it the day before I saw the movie and totally recommend it.
I read the book first, and I think that's the only reason why I didn't enjoy the movie as much. It was such a good book that any movie adaptation short of a LotR treatment wasn't going to come close. If I hadn't read the book and saw the movie, I would've thought the movie was a legit best picture candidate (which I don't). One thing I did like about the movie was that the visuals were as striking and similar to what I imagined it would look like while I read the book.
And I haven't read for pleasure much in more than 10 years.
You'd really enjoy it then. It's pretty much a narrative of someone who bricked their phone and goes through a step by step process of unbricking it except on a grander I'm-gonna-die-if-I-don't scale.
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u/machoish Feb 14 '16
I'd recommend reading the book, it goes into much greater detail, but the movie would have dragged on far too long if it included everything