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Jul 01, 2014zipread rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Red Mars --- by --- Kim Stanley Robinson. Over twenty years old. Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel. It must have been a pretty thin year for SF back then. I gotta wonder how many of the guys that bought this book ended up tossing it. Me, I usually try to finish what I start. If a book’s bad I want to cut my losses early: so many books, so little time. This book does have its moments. But they are separated from one another by long stretches of bland in which nothing happens: you can almost hear the grass grow (not that they have any on Mars). I laboured on reading this book, guilty like tossing the body of a friend over the railing. But eventually, eventually, it was time to move on. So many books, so little time. Recommended for insomniacs.