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I'm a little over halfway through, and it's been a struggle. My main issues are:
-the main character is supremely annoying, like a youth pastor made himself in a video game
-the glibness and smugness of every human character, the non sense science gives the story no real urgency
-the dialogue is much too snappy
-combine those and you've got a YA novel that tries to deliver "The story of your life" from the producers of big bang theory and boy meets world.

Maybe Andy Weir's style just isn't for me. I thought the Martian was good enough, but this one just isn't doing it.