Yes. I am giving this book 5 stars. It isn't that often that it happens, but this one deserves it. 
 DIALOGUE - 3.75 STARS 
 MONOLGUE - 5.00 STARS 
 First off, what the author lacks in writing dialogue which has more than one person involved he more than makes up with internal monologues and story progression. Which just happens to be the main part of telling a story to begin with. 
 Luckily there were not too many times where more than one person are speaking amongst themselves. But during those conversations I cringed after a while as one after another each line of spoken dialogue ended with "He said" "She said". 
 PREMISE - 4.5 STARS 
 I don't really have to go into detail to give anyone an idea of what the story is about; it is pretty self-explanatory just reading the quick synopsis on the back of the book or just by reading it online. So I will save anyone a bit of time on that. I rate the premise of the book with a 4.5. I'm not knocking it down because I'm being rude. It loses a half a star kinda by default. There is hardly an original idea out there and the stranded-to-die-alone concept has been done before. Sort of in the vein of Robinson Crusoe, however to look at his situation now it seems more of a cake walk than the odds stacked against Mark Watney. 
 Now to the glorification of this book. I felt very included in this story as if the main character, Mark Watney was leaving me personally his log entries. I also feel like I was very informed with the gadgets and equipment he was using. He went into great but not too lengthy detail explaining what this apparatus did or how it functioned. 
 SLIGHT SPOILER AHEAD 
 Another thing I enjoyed which is more of personal reason is that the semi-sarcastic tone of the protagonist reminds me of a character that I have been writing myself. The first person perspective really enables a writer to bring the audience closer to their character, and in Mark Watney's case I was genuinely concerned for his well-being. Now I don't want to say that I knew the outcome was going to be a pleasant one, but with the high reviews for the story it was kind of a telltale sign that he would eventually survive his time on Mars. Not too many people like it when the main guy dies. 
 OVERALL SCORE - 5.00 STARS 
 I know the math doesn't add up, but as I said before this book caused me to be heavily invested in the main character and I felt like I was part of Mission Control attempting to help him safely back to Earth. So I am willing to look past this book's miniscule flaws. I am also hoping that the author didn't just have a one hit wonder with this book, and that a future book although not necessarily with the same character, but perhaps with the same point of view story telling. My only improvement would be that it is not needed to add the "he said" "she said" after every statement. There are many other ways to indicate who is speaking than to overuse those phrases.