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Title: Green Mars is a chore to read.
Review: Red Mars barely kept me interested enough to read this one, but several times in this book I wondered why I pressed on. While some of the science was interesting, the characters remain static. The description of terraforming Mars is handled well but becomes tiresome after several hundred pages. The characters get older and continue to bicker, but somehow Robinson believes that sex can remain the central motivating force for 100+ year old characters. I'd have trouble believing that for characters past 25. Wisdom does not seem to accompany the age of the characters. Perhaps this goes unnoticed by adolescent readers, but reading about 100 year olds behaving like teenagers is hardly credible. All in all, this book should have been cut to half its length. I bought Blue Mars when I bought this, but have no motivation to read it.
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