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I think that's just Andy Weir at this point. I enjoyed The Martian, but Artemis was horrible. Characters were indistinguishable from one another, they were all just Andy trying to emulate the success of the cocky sarcastic hero from The Martian. After reading that I don't think I need to read any more of his work.

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> I enjoyed The Martian, but Artemis was horrible.

I personally hated both. With the risk of sounding elitist, the guy writes like /r/SubredditSimulator/

It's kind of like junk food. A little bit is enjoyable, too much makes you sick.

> Andy trying to emulate the success of the cocky sarcastic hero from The Martian.

Yeah. And he went on and on about his dead crew mates, how sad and depressed he was for them, but he had barely any connection to them besides sharing a single space flight.

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