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Title: took me too long to finish, and was not a good ride
Review: Blargh. Green Mars took a long long time to finish.I'm talking months. Painful, depressing months, in which I would pick it off the little wall-shelf thing above my toilet, read a chapter or two while tending to my business, sigh, and put it back.Why? Simple. Red Mars was fun, because it was a proper sci fi book, with the additional colonial political bits. Green Mars is 90% politics/talking about a revolution, and maybe 10% proper sci fi.In short: Take a good idea, then write a sequel and make it suck. No fun here.At least, by the time Robinson started with his political-environmental social responsibility of the scientists babbling in The Years of Rice and Salt, he'd already written a thousand years of cool alternative history, so it wasn't so painful.I dread the concept of starting Blue Mars, even though its sitting on my bookshelf right next to Red and Green.
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