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Summary: Feminist PC Sci-Fi
Review: The science was OK but the fiction was decidedly female, even feminist, and rife with 1990's-style political correctness. Unworthy of a Hugo. Try Dan Simmons or Vernor Vinge instead.
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Summary: An Impressive Achievement
Review: The final volumn in a masterly trilogy, beautifully written. I found this one every bit as fasinating as the first two volumns. A satisfying conclusion to a trilogy that opens the reader's eyes to the hope and possiblity of science. Don't know why anyone would complain about this volumn, I found it enjoyable.
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Summary: boring
Review: Dh hole reizen i even pikd up Red Mars wuz b cuz i wanted 2 reid Blu Mars. I reilizd dho, dhat in ordr 2 get 2 Blu Mars, I had tu reid Red Mars and Green Mars first. Aftr draggin my way thru Red Mars and Green Mars, wich wur ok books, I end up with a useless peice uv wut pasez az a book cald Blu Mars dhat took me half a semestr tu finish!
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Summary: What a loser
Review: You can find more passion, fire, and excitement in the Yellow Pages. This stuff is just so mundane, and the author has no concept of how to describe what few action sequences are attempted. There are no characters I would care to identify with; only neurotic and introspective caricatures working from shallow motivation. I admit I only read the first half (and skimmed the rest), but I regret even that investment. I feel cheated by this so-called author. I'm putting him on the same shelf as Robin Cook and other no talent scribblers.
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Summary: One star is too much
Review: The best thing I can say about this book is that it surely helps you get to sleep at night. Where, oh where is the next Aasimov, the next Heinlein ? Don't look here...this guy is incredibly boooring. I finally just started skimming to see if anything ever happened. The answer is....not much.
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Summary: The First Two Were Brilliant, But Skip This One
Review: The first two titles in this trilogy, Red Mars and Green Mars, are two of the most fascinating books, science fiction or otherwise, that I have ever read.It was frustrating to find that the final book, Blue Mars, was plodding, uneventful and even irritating.
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Summary: Ghost of a good series
Review: Some good elements, but mostly you can feel how the material is being milked to death. I have not read the two earlier books of the trilogy, but the references to them still managed to make them sound more interesting than this book. It's a big book, but it gets to dragging quite quickly. Somewhere around page 700 or so there is an interesting section about the memory refesh technique, but by that point it was pretty hard to care much about any of the surviving characters. In terms of the writing craft, the author is pretty good. This one uses the multiple viewpoint technique and mostly uses it pretty effectively. But overall, it felt like hack writing for pay. There was a good idea back there somewhere, but this was at least one sequel too many. Probably some of the established author effect, too, where the earlier works got better editing because the author didn't have a big name yet. Reviewing his books suggests that he was a minor author for many years, but the first book in this series was a big success.
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Summary: Blue Mars
Review: I found the story very slow, and could not get interested in the female characters. Ann I found very annoying. The story became boring into the last third. I'm sorry to say I found the book a disapointment.
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Summary: Hard to get through, but satisfying enough
Review: I picked up Blue Mars in hopes that it would bring a brilliant conclusion to the Mars series. This last book, however, was the most difficult one to get through. All three books are certainly well thought out and the research that must have gone into them would drive most writers insane. I appreciate that research, but it bogged me down. I had to speed read through several passages. The only thing that kept me reading to the end was my interest in some of the characters. I do commend Robinson on his characters. They are all complex and believable. I think that the characters and the research undertaken for such a grand project is what earned him the awards. I would have enjoyed a bit more action and intensity, especially at the end.
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Summary: Interesting, but don't expect a lot of plot
Review: Red Mars was very good, Green Mars was pretty good, and Blue Mars is... okay. I enjoy the hard science of this series, and Blue Mars has plenty of interesting science and technology, and lot of political and economic commentary as well, all of which is quite interesting, as are the physical descriptions of Mars and the other planets. However, the plot is more or less a loose series of events that are only connected because the same characters are involved, and often the events are described almost as a stream of conciousness rather than as a real story. Anyway, if you made it through Red and Green, and are curious how things end up, check out Blue, but be prepared for much less structure.
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