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Summary: Most boring book I ever read!
Review: Red Mars was great, Green Mars was OK, but this one is totally without interest. 700 pages of blablabla, bad pop psychology, depresive caracters, no intrigue at all. Nothing happens in the whole book and the end is just more of the same, nothing special, nothing final. I think that all the good stuff happened in the first book, and that all the good caracters died in that book also. In the other two books, all the caracters do is think about the past and feel bad for now. Politics, politics, boring politics. Nothing else... A poor ending for a series that started well. Don't waste your time and money on that one.
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Summary: Boooooooooooorrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnggggggg!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Red Mars was great, Green Mars was OK, Blue Mars is mind-numbingly dull and I think that the only reason that KSR wrote it was because he was probably being paid by the word and had to pay off his mortgage, or get braces for his kid or something. In Blue Mars the plot lines from Red and Green Mars get wrapped up, in a sort of half-assed way. The rest of the book reads like a tourist's handbook of the sights of the Solar System, ca. 2163 and KSR spends much time describing how humanity will spread to and transform other planets. Unfortunately these descriptions, as technically neat as they are from a Hard SF standpoint, fail to make up for the lack of a coherent plot and for some of the weakest characterizations of the whole trilogy. Buy this book if you have to, if you are a completist but if you're really interested in reading something about Mars pick up Robert Zubrin's The Case for Mars instead, which shows how we can begin to realize the vision that KSR laid out in the first two books.
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Summary: Hard for trilogy and even harder to finish it
Review: It is a pity I could not feel good about this trilogy because of missing the SF favors. I agree with most of the reviewers. Red is better than Green and Green is better than Blue.
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Summary: A flacid conclusion to a trilogy that spiraled downward.
Review: As so many Amazon reviewers have noted, the conclusion to Robinson's trilogy is, at best, a disappointment. I guess Red Mars must have been better than I thought because somehow I wound up reading over a thousand more pages in the story even though they were flat-out dull. By this book Robinson has simply run out of ideas, and the characters and "drama" are resolved in thoroughly unsatisfying ways. This is last, weak effort is either the result of a strongly-worded three-book contract, or an author who started believing his own press clipping. Probably some of both.
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Summary: Fitting conclusion to remarkable vision
Review: Red Mars, the first book of this trilogy, was one of the most interesting and complex visions of the future colonization of Mars (a project that is certainly not too far in the future), but the followup (like many middle volumes) seemed at times formless and directionless. Thus, my delay in reading Blue Mars. Although Blue Mars did not recapture the magic of Red Mars, it is certainly a fitting conclusion to Robinson`s Mars trilogy and is a remarkable vision of the future. As a novel, Blue Mars (unlike much of Robinson`s earlier fiction like Red Mars, The Pacific Edge, and the Gold Coast) is unsuccessful, with little plot or interesting characterization, but as a meditation on the future, environmentalism and myriad other topics Blue Mars is fascinating.
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Summary: Vastly in need of severe editing
Review: I sould have paid attention to some of the reviews, especially the one by Doug Greenberg. The best, almost only good, thing about this book was finishing it. Ignoring the reviews, I should have remembered the last book in the Dune Trilogy. I lay the blame with JRR Tolkien. He had a wonderful story to tell, and it took a trilogy to get it all out. This should not be taken as an invitation to subsequent writers. The real criminal here is the editor. Someone with both technical knowledge and a sense of a good story well told should have gone through the manuscript with a blue pencil the size of a telephone pole and performed major surgery. Alas, this did not happen. The only reason I kept going through this book was because I was sure that it had to get better, and, having invested so much time in reading the trilogy, I did not want to give up hope prematurely. Big mistake. Shoulda just read the first book, and gone on to something else.
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Summary: The best of the series.
Review: The first two books in this series, which both won SF awards, were longwinded and boring in spots. This one makes up for them somewhat. A main character, Nadia, is fascinating and the mechanics of developing a new government very interesting. It's too bad that a reader has to wade through the previous books to get to this gem. If it wasn't for the fact that a reader might be lost, I'd skip the first two books and read this one only. Overall a below average series.
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Summary: Amazing finale to one of the greatest Epics of all time
Review: When I finished reading this novel, I couldn't get myself to read anything else for days. It was partly grief because the series was over and it was partly reflection about the 2200+ page trilogy. I'm not going to summarize the plot here, and if you've read the previous two novels (which you must have to even be considering this one) then you know how Robinson writes. What I'm going to add is that this novel is a lot more fast paced at times. The character development reaches its maximum only at the end of the novels and you truly feel attached to them. If you can get yourself to put the book down within the last 300 pages then you're either dead-tired or HAVE to go somewhere, it's that good. I have friends that even put it above Red Mars, and I just might be one of them (but they're both so good that I'd just be splitting hairs). If you like Robinson and have read the first two books, then you HAVE to read this book. Hell, even if you didn't LIKE the first two, you'd like this one.
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Summary: Thoughts on Blue Mars
Review: The third book in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy... What can I say? Despite the fact I had to wait a year and a half to get this book (and then decided the best thing to do was read "Red" and "Green" again before finishing the trilogy) I really enjoyed it. I think I've said enough!
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Summary: Interesting subject, but the pace is way too slow.
Review: The sociological implications of this book are very large, and reveal a complex and worthy work of documentation and set-up. The style is not as fluid as it should be, and the story gets sometimes too slow to follow, and jumps around too much.
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