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Summary: Excellent introduction to science fiction
Review: An excellent written piece of science fiction, paints a picture in your mid that enduring and thought provoking. May give a glimpse into the future history of the Human race....
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Summary: Generally very good.
Review: Red Mars is perhaps the best novel concerning the colinazation of Mars and the surrounding polotics that would dictate the action of everyone who chose to immigrate there. This novel explores the rather quick change of the planet from natural beauty to industrial waste land. The characters, like the planet, undergo many changes and their real personalities are divulged with the eventual unravelling of Mars. What will become of this planet and its millions of inhabitants? Only time will tell
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Summary: The reviewers are right. It's the most boring novel ever!
Review: The reviewers are right--the amazon.com reviewers, that is. After reading Gearald Jonas's praise for this book in the NY Times Book Review, I expected great things. This writer has ZERO narrative skills. Save your money. Terrible book!
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Summary: GREAT!!!
Review: This book is GREAT! It deserved ALL the reviews and Awards! GREAT
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Summary: Pretty boring, stupid characters
Review: I thought this book was pretty boring. I got to page 132 and gave up. They had traveled to Mars, and yet I still felt like nothing had happened. Just because you try to make a story realistic doesn't mean you should make it boring. And why do sci-fi astronauts never have any self control? They always have to have sex on these long space voyages. None of them have any moral standards. I was hoping they would spring an air leak half way through the trip.
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Summary: This drivel won a hugo?!?
Review: I can't believe that this is the same book that has been hyped since 1993. It doesn't even begin to live up to its press releases.1) The plot - B -you aren't sure what it is until about page 400. Even then, its not good enough to justify 579 boring pages. It could have been done better in 300. 2) The writing - D-minus - just horrible. Robertson spends pages and pages detailing stuff that is difficult to follow and pretty much irrelevant to the plot. He can't decide whether this is a treatise on human behavior or a hard sci-fi story and as a result it is neither. Also, there are so many geographical locations named as to be utterly confusing and distracting to his point (assuming he had one). 3) The characters - F - why anyone should want to read so much about one dimensional jerks is pretty much beyond me. Who selected these people to settle Mars? Helen Keller is my guess. 4) The Sci-fi - B+ Decent concepts that are well thought out and fairly accurrate, but they don't carry the book. Its a shame. I should have liked this book. Its a sci-fi political novel (exactly my type) but in trying to do everything, it accomplishes nothing. I could barely finish it and when I did, I was sorry I bothered. I can't believe this drivel won a hugo.
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Summary: BOOOOORING!!!! I expected a great book, but can't finish it.
Review: I can't believe it got such good reviews in the press and by readers. It's so boring that I was tediously trying to read through the second 100 pages, and stopped all together midway in the book. I think a good word to describe the book would be tedium. Robinson also gets too melodramatic with the characters. I can't stand any of them. This book is HIGHLY overrated and the only sci-fi book I couldn't finish, as much as I tried over half a year.
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Summary: Fantastic......
Review: Those who are saying that the trilogy is slow.... Well, I have to agree with that. But those of you who say the books are incredible.... I also have to agree with that. Robinson wrote an incredible trilogy - although it definitely isn't an easy read, it is WORTH IT! Imagine how difficult a topic Mars is to write about, and yet Robinson did an astounding job of it. To anyone who is willing to overlook the "plodding-ness" of the books and get to the actual story of it - I suggest you do... You won't regret it.
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Summary: For hardcore Mars enthusiasts only!
Review: For a story that concetrated on personal relationships and the cultural development of Mars, Stanley spent too much time focusing on scientific and technical details.
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Summary: An amazing prophecy of the way things could be
Review: I have never read a book that was so real and so well developed in every aspect, every amazing detail. The entire series is written in such a way that you could believe the characters, technology, politics, and world will actually come to be. Not a book to be read if you want an escape, but a book to be read if you want a glimps at the future. It could be called slow, but only because there is more to the plot and character development than an excuse for mindless action. This series makes you want to live forever just to witness where humanity will go.
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