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It's somehow very reassuring to know I'm not the only one who just can't really get along with Red Mars!
I'm not much of a hard scifi reader - not averse to it, just not my go-to genre - but with this, I think it's the actual writing / style that doesn't really gel with me that well. Something about the way the sentences are constructed.
Also, yeah, flat characters are flat. I like the actual Mars descriptions, and the concept of telling the decades-spanning story of the first settlers through multiple POVs is, in itself, not bad, but when I actually manage to get into only a few of those characters' stories, and am either bored by the others or disliking the character whose POV it is, that's not helping (and neither is, for me, the difficulty to really grasp the passing of time - you get the occasional mention that years have passed, and obviously see things change, but the characters themselves seem rather stagnant).
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