Red Mars Audiobook

" I like sci fi, but this was a bit much for me. Excellent series for an indivdual super into sci fi book series. "

" Almost the perfect sci-fi book. Very beautiful, very descriptive. A great recommendation. "

" Have now tried to read this three times, and to say it drags is a massive understatement. I really like KSR as an author, but he writes some massive junk to go with his terrific stuff. "

" I felt this was probably a very realistic interpretation of any colonization attempt on Mars. Therefore, it was very depressing. "

" Why the hell aren't we there yet? "

" First in a trilogy about earthlings moving to Mars, terraforming and creating a new and independent society. I loved it! "

" I really wanted to love this more than I did. The descriptive passages about the physical structure of Mars are fantastic, but the narrative is slow and redundant. The perspective shifts between individuals, but that's a hindrance when those individuals are one-dimensional. "

" Like all Robinsons books, it is wery slow and hard to read at the begginning, but it becomes more interesting after first 100 pages. "

" This is what colonization of Mars would be like. "

" Would the biggest challenge in colonizing Mars not be technology but that people are still people no matter where they settle? Interesting how this book worked without a certain protagonist. Every character is flawed and many POVs shared as the story is revealed. Looking forward to Green Mars. "

" Loved These books!! Great story, lots of science, and best of all Hope!! "

" This trilogy rules. I love Mars. I love terraforming. This is basically a future history of the colonization of Mars. I could have done without the high school-level love spats though. Half the characters acted like thirteen year olds. "

" Some sci-fi can be too technical, too far-fetched. Not these books. This is simply the best sci-fi trilogy I've ever read, and I suspect ever will. The characters are wonderful, the landscape ever-changing and the best part of all is that it could all happen (and soon!). Must read. "

" I got 40 pages in and was still bored. I'm sure it's a great book to some people, but it's not for me. "

" Really great True SCIENCE Fiction on what Colonization of Mars would be like and the Socio-political dynamics that would reasonably occur. "

" I actually didn't even finish this it was so terrible. Really boring and lame. "

" A hard book to review. Loved the science and global dynamics of creating humanity's first colony on Mars. Hated the dismally-written characters. But I think that's a review that could be said for everything I've read by KSR. "

" Okay so this book gets 4 stars but it was a slog at times and really really slow at others. But despite that it is a great overall read and I just have to know what happens next in the series. "

" I bought this book at least three years before I read it...I wish I'd read it sooner because it was GREAT. I read it over spring break...juxtaposed to my Brother's K reading, and it was straight forward and scientific and wonderful. "

" Easily the best Sci-Fi book I've read. Robinson masterfully uses his cast of characters to introduce and interact with intriguing philosophical, political, and scientific concepts. "

" Kip reccomended this book. Its his favorite. "

" Interesting read, but so very, very slow. "

" Graat book.Sometimes difficult, sometimes it seems lengthy, but worth reading. "

" interesting concept for a book and I love sci-fi, but too much emphasis on human drama. I want human exploration, ingenuity, and all the good and bad that come with it. "

" I usually love slow and boring, and the first half - which is slow and boring - is pretty fine. A 'realistic' account of settling on Mars. Then it jumps forwards a decade and goes bonkers. I won't be reading book 2! "

" What a good book! This book is like the classic example of "science fiction as social commentary." Case in point: Fredric Jameson is thanked in the acknowledgements. I would love to write a paper about this book in a postmodern fiction class. "

" This book begins with a great premise, but falls to sleep with tired plotlines... How can the terraforming of a planet be boring? "

" Red Mars was my first venture back into hardcore SF after an absence of many years, and what a fabulous re-introduction! A sweeping expansive vision, told with a minimalist prose style. Simple words for complex politics and ideas. I can't say enough about how good this book is. "

" I would read anything this man wrote, including his grocery list. Fascinating, thought-provoking, and an epic series. "

" A great work of "hard sci-fi" which looks more like a real chronicle of the martian colonization. A book full of great characters, gread landscapes, great ideas and great ideologies. "

" about 100 pages too long but when it was good it was great ... "